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Aladjidi, Virginie De Villepin, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Emmanuelle.Parrenin, Emmanuelle.
Contents: Ce matin à Frémentel -- Plume blanche, plume noire -- Liturgie -- Thibault et l'arbre d'or -- Ritournelle -- L'écharpe de soie -- Topaze -- Belle Virginie -- Ballade avec Neptune -- Maison rose -- Après l'ondée -- Le rêve.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Musea 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARDevos, Emmanuelle
Summary: An Israeli teenager discovers that he was accidentally switched at birth with the son of a Palestinian family, and the news turns the lives of these two families upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHDe Villepin, Emmanuelle
Summary: "Three generations of women untangle a complex family story that encompasses the First and Second World Wars, revealing unexpected lessons about marriage and fidelity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction DeVillepin 2018Summary: When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUCSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: An intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COCSummary: When a young advertising executive loses her high-powered job right before the holidays, she finds another job with the rival firm's boss, as a nanny. Chaos ensues as she balances the corporate world with kids and a love interest who has no idea who she really is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday NSummary: After the German occupation of Paris during World War II, a young widow flees the war-torn city with her two children and must rely on a mysterious young stranger in order to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STRAladjidi, Virginie
Summary: Presents information about a variety of animals that live on each of the seven continents, describing their physical characteristics and habitats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591 ALASummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: When a man shaves off his mustache, a trademark he's had for years, no one around him notices, instead insisting he's never even had one. Is he going insane, or is this some kind of strange conspiracy?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOUSummary: 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,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CADSummary: A sweeping epic spanning three decades and a world war. The film follows the life and loves of Jean Barnery, a provincial gentleman and reluctant heir to his family's porcelain empire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DESSummary: A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fight to do their job and help them find acceptance. The four of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living. Writer and director Emmanuelle Bercot initially set out to explore the undying connection between a mother and her child,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEASummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sand 2007Summary: The lives of a writer, her boyfriend, a well-known doctor, and an attractive gay man all intersect when they are faced with the AIDS epidemic during the sexual revolution in the early 1980s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WITSummary: Zohan Dvir is an ex-commando, Mossad agent who decides to fake his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist. He romances his clients by giving them extra 'special services' in the back room of the beauty shop he works in. However, he is eventually recognized, and risks losing his newfound life and career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUSummary: When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FRASummary: "The fates of three strangers intertwine in Fraedaeric Tellier's thriller GOLIATH. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from pesticide exposure. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for a multinational chemical corporation. Patrick is a lonely but tireless environmental lawyer. All will have their lives collided and turned upside down after one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOLSummary: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013