Filter By Subjects
Adventure and adventurers Fiction Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc Japan Translations into English Graphic novels Graphic novels Japan Translations into English Japan Science fiction comic books, strips, etc Short stories, French Short stories, French Translations into English Supernatural FictionFilter By Subjects
Adventure and adventurers Fiction Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc Japan Translations into English Graphic novels Graphic novels Japan Translations into English Japan Science fiction comic books, strips, etc Short stories, French Short stories, French Translations into English Supernatural FictionSummary: Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in The Hunter's Cafe, to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic You Never Die, and the sardonic tales of Frederic Fajardie and Sylvie Massicotte, these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Canepa, Barbara
Contents: Vol. 1. The yellow city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CanepaSummary: Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANTVerne, Jules
Summary: Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC VERCamus, Albert
Summary: From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMIwahara, Yuji
Summary: True to his warning, Loser -- the infamous phantom thief -- makes an explosive entrance at the art museum to steal the Angels of Black and White Wings statue! "Collector" Kyouma Mabuchi, now teamed up with the android Mira to recover illegal Coils, faces off with the masked thief in the midst of the museum's heavy security. But it just so happens that Loser recognizes Kyouma -- and what's more,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIMSummary: Ten short stories by Voltaire, Balzac, Gide, Camus and others in the original French and a new English translation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1990
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students. Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece ‘Green Tobacco’ by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of ‘The Ants’...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1972
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC FREEchenoz, Jean.
Summary: The Queen’s Caprice—seven new stories presented in English for the first time—reveals Echenoz at the height of his talents. The author takes us on a journey across radically different places and landscapes, giving free rein to a “terrific sense of humor tinged with existential mischief” (L’Express). The title story explores a tiny corner of the French countryside; “Nelson” offers a brilliant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECHSimenon, Georges
Summary: This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute ...A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMInagaki, Riichiro
Summary: "Senku and friends continue their quest to procure a sulfa drug panacea for Ruri, the village shamaness who is gravely ill! The toughest ingredient to obtain is sulfuric acid, the search for which will lead them on a death-defying journey! Meanwhile, the Grand Bout Martial Arts Tournament approaches, with the chief's throne offered as a prize to the winner!"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Modiano, Patrick
Summary: "As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODIsayama, Hajime
Summary: "The Survey Corps's quest for the truth of the world inside the Walls has brought them back to Titan-infested Shiganshina District, a mere stone's throw from Eren's childhood home. They have come to execute Erwin's final gambit, reclaiming Wall Maria and the secrets of humanity's past. But the Colossus Titan, the Armored Titan, and the Beast Titan have been waiting for them, and saving humanity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ATTKawashima, Tadashi.
Summary: The suspense builds as a group of Tokyo teens tries to discover what strange force is leading so many to take their own lives--and just why they have been spared.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALISimler, Isabelle
Summary: "Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Takahashi, Osamu.
Summary: Based on the alternate world glimpsed in the final episode of the famous Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, this manga series explores the characters through love, comedy and a new set of adventures. Stunning, hotheaded Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always assumed they'd stay together--until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOTakahashi, Osamu.
Summary: Based on the alternate world glimpsed in the final episode of the famous Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, this manga series explores the characters through love, comedy and a new set of adventures. Stunning, hotheaded Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always assumed they'd stay together--until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Will Kaguya and Shirogane outsmart a psychological test designed to reveal their true feelings? Is spoon-feeding each other cake the way to each other's hearts? Then, Shirogane visits Kaguya's home for the first time, but she is too sick to enjoy it. Kaguya tries to befriend Shirogane's little sister, but Chika has beaten her to the punch. And summer vacation arrives, but the student council...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dumas, Alexandre
Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMMolière
Summary: Collection of seven Moliere plays translated into English.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Franklin Library 1985
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOLModiano, Patrick
Summary: Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODPancol, Katherine
Summary: "Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France - When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Josephine Cortes is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two-confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoe;-is forced to maintain a stable family life while...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PANSummary: "This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's 'Reloj sin dueño' and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's 'La mañana de San Juan' to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's 'Las mulas de Su Excelencia' and the vivid romanticism of 'Amor secreto' by Manual Payno,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008