Summary: Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOLSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HAPSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: Businessman Vincent is leading a double life. He was fired from his job and constructed an elaborate fantasy of employment that has become his full-time occupation. Vincent must decide which of his lives is more important.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: The true story of a stray dog who became a hero of the First World War. For his keen instincts and fierce loyalty, Stubby is still recognized today as the most decorated canine in American history and the first promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the U.S. Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SGTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Frédéric is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Frédéric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BONSummary: Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaBallesta, Laurent
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 577.7 BALGuillaume, Laurent
Summary: "A man torn between two continents finds himself in a dangerous confrontation between tradition and corruption. Solo is a former cop who ran away from a dark past in France to start his life over again in Bamako, Mali, as a PI. An ordinary case turns out to be not so ordinary. The drug mule gets her throat slit. The French lawyer is too beautiful and too well-informed. The cocaine is too...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Le French Book 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUILaurent, Monique.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.92 LAUGarnier, Laurent.
Contents: Deep sea diving (2:10) -- Sweet mellow D (9:30) -- Crispy bacon (5:49) -- For Max (5:53) -- The hoe (6:00) -- Midsummer night (4:43) -- Kall it! (4:14) -- La minute du répondeur le plus casse-couilles (1:34) -- Theme from Larry's dub (5:55) -- Feel the fire (7:14) -- Flashback (8:37) -- I funk up (5:00) -- *?* (:18) -- Le voyage de Simone (4:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: F Communications 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GARDubois, Laurent
Summary: Even before the 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, and has often been blamed for its own wretchedness. But as historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, its difficulties are rooted in its founding revolution, the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers; and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 DUBGarnier, Laurent.
Summary: His Most Productive Work to Date! Blends Jazzy Rhythms, Dark House, and Techno.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Import [Generic] 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GARBinet, Laurent
Summary: The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscript.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINGounelle, Laurent
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....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOURichard, Laurent
Summary: "Pegasus is widely regarded as the most effective and sought-after cyber-surveillance system on the market. The system's creator, the NSO Group, a private corporation headquartered in Israel, is not shy about proclaiming its ability to thwart terrorists and criminals. "Thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to hundreds of our company employees," NSO's cofounder declared in 2019. This...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.8 RICGirard, Anne.
Summary: "When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Girard 2014Sinema, Laurene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quilt Digest Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SinemaGirard, Geoffrey.
Summary: Former black ops soldier Shawn Castillo teams up with a boy who has just learned he is a clone of Jeffrey Dahmer to try to capture other teenaged clones of serial killers who escaped from a secret government facility with powerful chemical weapons and are on a rampage across the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIRGirard, Pascal
Summary: "A maternity leave murder mystery, complete with postpartum physiotherapy and suspicious grocery store footage"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GIRGirard, Joe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.85 GIRKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Contents: Head on/pill -- I'm not a man unless I have a woman -- God is calling me back home -- 30 past 7 -- Let me mend the past -- Mystery Jack -- Pop in my step -- Float along - fill your lungs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK KINBrunhoff, Laurent de
Summary: Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2003