Vilmorin, Charlotte de.

Summary: C’est l’histoire d’une petite fille qui voulait être chanteuse de comédie musicale. Ou femme de rentier. Ou danseuse étoile. Puis trapéziste dans un cirque. Oui, trapéziste : voler là-haut, admirée de tous, habile, gracieuse, risque-tout, dans un joli justaucorps à paillettes… Qui n’a eu ces rêves d’enfants ? Qui ne les a pas confiés à ses parents, à ses journaux intimes, aux spécialistes de...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grasset 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 DEV FRENCH

Ophuls, Max

Summary: After selling jewelry to surreptitiously pay down her debt, a woman's lies to her husband initiate a chain reaction of tragic misunderstandings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOR

Summary: A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: A journey into the endless possibilities of life. Rich with positive, life-enhancing messages that focus on growth and change. Positive messages of self-esteem are illustrated through a series of live action and animations shorts through songs, stories and laughter. Explores children's dreams and concerns, as well as their fears and fantasies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FRE

Summary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Summary: In this compelling French mystery, Gabriel Cauvy contends with the sudden death of his wife, Rebecca, in a suspicious car wreck. When the police blame the crash on Rebecca for drunk driving, Gabriel sets out to clear her name, but his search for the truth is more dangerous than he could have imagined.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ACC

Krensky, Stephen

Summary: Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEO

Summary: Fate brought them together, now vengeance will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past. The crossing of their paths takes them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWE

Summary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD C

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Constant 2006

Contents: Just a little while to stay here (Eureka Brass Band) (3:56) -- Shine-hambone (Shoeshine boy) (1:02) -- Tiger rag (Freddie L. Small) (1:42) -- Blackberries! (Dora Bliggen) (:18) -- Red white and blue got the golden band (Mardi Gras Indians) (5:07) -- Times done changed (Sister Dora Alexander) (1:24) -- Dark was the night (Rev. Lewis Jackson and Charlotte Rucell) (:52) -- Back to the time (Choir...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CLA

Dylan, Bob

Contents: All along the watchtower (Eddie Vedder & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- I'm not there (Sonic Youth) -- Goin' to Acapulco (Jim James & Calexico) -- Tombstone blues (Richie Havens) -- Ballad of a thin man (Stephen Malkmus & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again (Cat Power) -- Pressing on (John Doe) -- Fourth time around (Yo La Tengo) -- Dark eyes (Iron...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC I'M

Summary: In this "whippy meringue of a French drama" (Radio Times), mother and daughter Astrid and Audrey are family law attorneys at the same firm. Along with their partner, Sofia, they argue custody battles, divorce proceedings, neglect cases, and even murder charges.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FAM

Summary: In this scintillating French drama, mother and daughter Astrid and Audrey are lawyers specializing in family law who make the perilous decision to work together. Along with partner Sofia, they deal with clients from a divorcing couple fighting over their bulldog to shady fertility trade dealings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FAM

Summary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANG

Summary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRI

Summary: "The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FLE

Summary: A young showgirl falls for a playboy soldier the night before his leave. When he comes back and is given a medal, he finds that she's singing at the celebration his family has arranged, and she finds that he gave her an assumed name and is engaged.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GAN