Armstrong, Lance.

Summary: Seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer-survivor Lance Armstrong offers a first-person photo-journal of his 2009 comeback season, during which he helped promote a global cancer-awareness campaign, in a book with behind-the-scenes photos and stunning four-color shots of racing action.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...

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 PER

Summary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOH

Summary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Xavier, now thirty, reunites again with his old friends from his time in Barcelona when William marries a Russian dancer in Saint Petersburg. Although he is working as a writer, Xavier has been unable to publish his serious novel. He is ghostwriting celebrity memoirs and writing scripts for corny TV soap operas. His love life is a series of short-term encounters. When he loses his apartment,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006

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

Summary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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Summary: An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during his Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRO RATED R

Hamilton, Tyler.

Summary: A once top-ranked cyclist chronicles his downfall after testing positive for doping after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics while also addressing the practice's pervasiveness in the sport and his relationship with Lance Armstrong.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, TYLER HAM

Contents: September song -- Brazil -- I'll never smile again (take 1) -- I'll never smile again (take 2) -- New York city -- Django's blues -- Love's mood -- I love you -- Topsy -- Moppin' the bride -- micro -- Insensiblement -- Mano -- Blues primitif -- Gipsy with a song (take 1) -- Gipsy with a song (take 2).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Gitanes Jazz Productions 2001

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Bruyneel, Johan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.62 BRU

Froome, Chris

Summary: The margin of victory was stunning: four minutes and twenty seconds. The style was breathtaking: three stage wins, including a mesmerizing climb on the iconic Mont Ventoux. But the full story behind Chris Froome and his unforgettable triumph at the 100th Tour de France in 2013, which culminated under the lights of the Champs-Elysees, is even more remarkable.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 FRO

Groff, Lauren

Summary: Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021

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Summary: George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HER

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Summary: Using non-professional actors, this film follows the Gospel of Matthew to tell the story of the birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. There was no script except the Bible itself. The narrative portions are voiced by "Jesus Christ." It is presented almost as a cinema-verité documentary and without the glossy coating of the Church and Hollywood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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

Summary: In the Paris of 1978, old formulas do not charm listeners anymore in a male-dominated music industry. Until Ana uses her synthetizers to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Albergotti, Reed.

Summary: "The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and the greatest conspiracy in the history of sports. Lance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage. In a sport constantly dogged by blood-doping scandals, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, LANCE ALB

Reinhardt, Django

Contents: Vol. 1. Georgia on my mind. I'se a muggin' (3:05) / Stuff Smith -- I can't give you anything but love (3:20) / McHugh, Fields -- Oriental shuffle (2:37) / D. Reinhardt, S. Grappelly -- After you' gone (3:04) / H. Creamer, T. Layton -- Are you in the mood (2:48) / D. Reinhardt, S. Grappelly -- Limehouse blues (2:43) / Braham, D. Furber -- Nagasaki (2:48) / H. Warren, M. Dixon -- Swing guitars...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI France 1992

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Summary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007

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

Contents: Honeysuckle rose.--Night and day.--Black and white.--Sweet Georgia Brown.--Bellevilla.--Souvenirs.--My sweet.--Liza.--Stomping at Decca.--Love's melody.--Daphne.--Lambeth walk.--Nuages.--H.C.Q. strut.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GNP Crescendo 1950

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Landis, Floyd.

Summary: Winning the 2006 Tour de France should have been the culmination of a life's dream for Floyd Landis, but three days later, he was accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs. Released by his team and threatened with the removal of his title, Landis went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to being unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a doper. This book is at once...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANDIS, FLOYD LAN

Contents: Limehouse blues -- I got rhythm -- St. Louis blues -- I've found a new baby -- It was so beautiful -- China boy -- Moonglow -- It don't mean a thing -- Billets doux -- Swing from Paris -- Them there eyes -- Three little words -- Appel direct -- Swing '39.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Crescendo 1973

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ REI

Contents: Stampede ; Wrappin' it up / Fletcher Henderson (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) -- Dinah / Henry Akst (Red Nichols and his Five Pennies) -- Moten swing / Bennie and Buster Moten (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra -- I ain't got nobody / Spencer Williams (Fats Waller) -- Honky tonk train blues / Meade Lewis (Meade Lewis) -- Body and soul / Johnny Green (Benny Goodman Trio) -- Body and...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 2006

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SMI

Dray, Stephanie

Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dray 2021

Dray, Stephanie

Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DRA (BOOK CLUB KIT-8 paperbacks)