Summary: Krzysztof Kieślowski's trilogy of the human condition in contemporary French society, with each film drawing its theme from a color in the French flag: liberty (Bleu), equality (Blanc) and fraternity (Rouge).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HIRSummary: Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSRiva, Renee.
Summary: "A. J. Degulio loved the idea of a visit to the Old Country... until her family decided to stay. Now it's 1972 and she's turning fourteen in a crumbling castle on a hill in Tuscany, wishing she were back in Idaho with her beloved dog, Sailor. In Italy, her blonde hair makes her stick out like a vanilla wafer in a box of chocolate biscotti, and she's so lonely her best friend is a nun from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVDevos, Emmanuelle
Summary: An Israeli teenager discovers that he was accidentally switched at birth with the son of a Palestinian family, and the news turns the lives of these two families upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHRiva, Renee.
Summary: When A.J. returns home to Indian Island, her dog Sailor, and childhood friend Danny, she surprises everyone with her plans . . . but Danny has something else in mind. For eight years, A.J. Degulio has been itching to get back to her beloved Indian Island. It's home. But a lot has changed: Sailor moves slower, Danny has grown into a man . . . and A.J. has a promise to keep.but it doesn't include...
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Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVRiva, Renee.
Summary: "A quirky girl, a faithful dog, and one unforgettable summer." -- cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cook Communications Ministries 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVRiva, Maria
Summary: Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village. When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for the gleaming promises await her and her young husband in Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVSummary: Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FAS2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FASDe Villepin, Emmanuelle
Summary: "Three generations of women untangle a complex family story that encompasses the First and Second World Wars, revealing unexpected lessons about marriage and fidelity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction DeVillepin 2018Galchen, Rivka.
Summary: When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the real Rema is alive and in hiding, he embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim her. With the help of his psychiatric patient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALSummary: "A French village ... chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FREGalchen, Rivka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALViva, Frank
Summary: Rhyming text tells of a boy's birthday at Coney Island, while each turn of the page reveals a new meaning for an oronym--a pair of words or phrases which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VIVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VIVViva, Frank
Summary: A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVViva, Frank.
Summary: Follow that road! Speed off on an eventful bicycle ride along the bold yellow road that cuts through town, by the sea, and through the country. Ride up and around, along and through, out and down. Frank's striking graphic style is executed in just five joyous colors, and his spare, rhythmic language is infectious. Hit a bump? Get back on track! Reach the end? Start again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Viva 2011Eika, Jonas
Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIKGalchen, Rivka
Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALSiva, Micah
Summary: Count from 1 to 10 with Buckwheat the dog! Buckwheat is hungry! Help him count matzo balls, hamantaschen, latkes, and other traditional treats in this delightful romp through the delicious foods of Jewish holidays, family gatherings, and Shabbat dinners. If all this counting makes you hungry too, use the Simple Challah recipe included to make your own tasty loaf!
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Collective Book Studio 2023
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE SIVHoriuchi, Rina
Summary: "From aardvark to zebra, this delightful cast of animal characters illustrates the many ways to show kindness to others, while teaching the youngest readers their ABCs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: When a man shaves off his mustache, a trademark he's had for years, no one around him notices, instead insisting he's never even had one. Is he going insane, or is this some kind of strange conspiracy?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOUNyman, Risa
Summary: After Rocky's dad dies and he over hears his mom admit that her story about how he died was bogus, his trust unravels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020