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Breach, Jen Modiano, Patrick Némirovsky, Irène Palacio, R. J. Taylor, Andrew Wiebe, Kurtis J.Summary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tetra Media Fiction 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: This French drama chronicles the impact of World War Ii German occupation on a small village in central France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FREBreach, Jen
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRETaylor, Andrew
Summary: Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSummary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: A successful film director leaves his pregnant wife at home when he attends the annual festival for advertising awards, and begins an affair with a young British woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SLOModiano, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODNémirovsky, Irène
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NEMWiebe, Kurtis J.
Summary: In 1940, as Calais, France, falls to the Germans during World War II, an American boy named Peter Panzerfaust rallies a group of orphans to work together to survive and find their way to safety.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics/Shadowline 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PETSummary: Monsignor Renard tells the story of the German occupation of France during World War II through the eyes and experiences of a humble and extraordinary priest-- whose beliefs are tested to the breaking point.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONPalacio, R. J.
Summary: Tells the story of Julian's Grandmaere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Palacio 2019Summary: "Charles is a renowned author whose alcoholism drove his family away years back. New he spends his days drowning his sorrow in copious amounts of wine. To make matters even worse, he receives a surprising visit from a man claiming to be his brain cancer! Annoying, talkative and wickedly sarcastic, the cancer lingers and taunts while Charles begins to reexamine his life. With time running...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Métropole 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRUSummary: Season 7: Laure and Gilou are brought back together by a double homicide in a Chinese restaurant, and the tragic loss of one of their own. Meanwhile, Josp̌hine struggles with life in prison as she awaits trial and Judge Roban faces forced retirement. All of them will have to deal with unexpected hurdles and the ultimate dilemma: give up the truth or betray the institution they have each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPISummary: Captain Laure Berthaud, private lawyer Pierre Clement, Judge Roban and Joséphine Karlsson all work through a wide spectrum of tough investigations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPISummary: Originally released in France as Engrenages, this hard-hitting Parisian cop thriller became a blockbuster sensation across Europe and Australia. Captain Laure Berthaud, private lawyer Pierre Clement, Judge Roban and Joséphine Karlsson all work through a wide spectrum of tough investigations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPISummary: The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II- and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEWSummary: In 1963, student Anne has a bright future ahead of her, but her dreams of finishing her studies is shattered when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022