Beauvoir, Simone de
Summary: From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEMMartin-Lugand, Agnès.
Summary: Diane needs to start over again. After returning from Ireland and turning the page on her stormy relationship with Edward, the brooding Irish photographer, she is determined to rebuild her life in Paris with help from her best friend Félix. She focuses solely on getting her literary café back on track--until she meets Olivier. He is kind and thoughtful, and she may have a future with him--until...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: "Alice is very good at her job. She's on the rise at a prominent PR firm, and there is no image-management disaster she can't fix. But when her dearest friend, a parish priest in a charming French village, becomes depressed about his dwindling number of parishioners, she may finally have met her biggest challenge. Though an avowed atheist, Alice is determined to apply her skills to the problem....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUMartin-Lugand, Agnès
Summary: Diane seems to have the perfect life. She is a wife, a mother, and the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cozy literary cafe in Paris. But when she suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a tragic car accident, the world as she knows it instantly vanishes. Trapped and haunted by her memories, Diane retreats from friends and family, unable and unwilling to move forward. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Martin-Lugand 2016Nemirovsky, Irene
Summary: Pierre Hardelot breaks off his engagement to a wealthy heiress to marry Agnes Florent, the daughter of the local brewer, setting off a family feud which lasts for thirty years, as their village is first destroyed by World War I and then threatened again with the coming of World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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Summary: A novel about life and death in occupied France during World War II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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Contents: Aurelia (5:59) -- Bohemian Zebulon (4:43) -- Temporarily Lucy (4:40) -- In your head (4:24) -- Space unadorned (5:00) -- Maggots (4:03) -- Drunken boat (3:46) -- Interlude dirigible (0:42) -- Valley of the morning sun (6:24) -- Judge not (3:21) -- Get there (5:00) -- Interlude Saturn (0:38) -- Bold marauder (5:33)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 4AD 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SmithSummary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, it foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017