Summary: In this enchanting feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Tati shot this film simultaneously in black and white and in an untested color process that proved impossible to print copies of. In 1964 he re-edited it with added hand-colored footage, and in 1995 the full-color film was able to be released from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOU

Cleary, Beverly.

Summary: Emily decides that the town of Pitchfork needs a library, and comes up with a plan to make it happen. Can she make her dream come true?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2000

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLE

Boyd, Julia

Summary: "From the author of the international bestseller Travelers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy, and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 BOY

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 BOY

Lovett, Andrew.

Summary: "A captivating, absorbing, and suspenseful evocation of the spells of childhood In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett's Everlasting Lane tells the story of what happens when nine-year-old Peter's father dies and his mother moves them from the city to a house in the countryside, for what seem to Peter to be mysterious reasons. He's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOV

Franklin, Jonathan

Summary: "The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history--as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910 FRA

Franklin, Jonathan

Summary: The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 FRA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 FRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Franklin

Sancha, Sheila.

Summary: Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1982

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942.037 SAN

Proust, Marcel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRO