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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Saint-Exupery's classic story of a little prince who meets and befriends a pilot whose plane has crashed in the desert. In a tender and often poignant dialogue with his new friend, the little prince tells of his adventures on Earth and other planets, and of his search for peace. The English edition features a new translation and restored original art to mark the 100th anniversary of the author's birth.
6) Man On Wire
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On August 7, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York. Academy Award winner. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
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English
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"Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister Ana, is something close to paradise. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, and soon their peaceful existence will shatter when Burundi, and neighboring Rwanda, are brutally hit by civil war and genocide..."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Waka Films
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sili is a little girl between ten and thirteen years old. She lives on the street and moves with crutches. Her legs cannot support her since she had polio. She tries to get close to the boys who sell newspapers, but they push her and make her fall. She gets irritated and decides to take her destiny in her own hands. Instead of begging, she will sell newspapers like the boys. Equal rights for both sexes.. Although the world of the newspaper boys is...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 76 min., 20 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A story of obsessive passion directed and filmed by Chris Petit. Based on an English academic's memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a dazzling digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. It is a story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, and of modern technologies which define the urban stalker as they do the new terrorist. Their methods duplicate: both are irrational...
13) Activized
Publisher
Twin Seas Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
ACTIVIZED follows the stories of ordinary Americans who, for the first time in their lives, have left their comfort zones and become involved in gun violence prevention, voting rights and immigrants’ rights. Interweaving their personal stories against the backdrop of the causes they fight for, we experience their motivations, successes and failures, their sacrifices, and victories. Above all, we celebrate these inspiring, courageous citizens for...
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (0 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of Philippe Petit, a young French aerialist, and his daring 1974 high wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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Publisher
Mimi Riser
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Sauces, soups, salads, seafood, poultry, egg dishes, meat dishes, side dishes, and desserts. . . Sixty-six classic French recipes from a hundred years ago or more (plus some favorite French proverbs with English translations). Included are: B uf a la Mode, Consomme Royale, Petites Cremes au Chocolat, Beignets des Peches, Creme Brulee, and many more. Bon appetit!. --Provided by publisher.
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English
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With acerbic wit, irreverent tone, and bountiful hilarious anecdotes, Jay McInerney writes the first wine book that makes sense to all those dazed by the prevailing, dull technical wine writing. McInerney generously reveals all he's learned on his worldwide journey to understand wine in chapters on reds, whites, dessert wines, champagne, aperitifs, and more. McInerney holds forth in forty-nine essays-with agile humor; an astonishing amount of hard...
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English
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"Picnics are fun and casual, and somehow the food just tastes better in a beautiful outdoor setting. In Picnic, DeeDee Stovel offers 28 picnic event ideas and more than 125 recipes -- packable repasts from an informal Summer Canoe Picnic (featuring iced cucumber soup and red potato salad with fresh peas) to an elegant Champagne Tea Picnic (starring petite lobster rolls and Tante Lulu's apple cake). There are picnics for every season, including a Tailgate...
18) Little Hands
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Léo is the two-year old son of the factory manager on the brink of closing. When employees discover the news, Bruno, a more radical worker who is willing to fight for his job, abducts Léo.Through a baby's point of view, “Les petites mains” explores the world through Léo's eyes as he experiences adults' violence and encounters Bruno, who gradually becomes warm-hearted by the little boy. **César Award** winner for Best Short Film.
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Le France of the collection of films - Tales of Ordinary People. These two now classic shorts, Le Franc and La petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl who Sold the Sun) by the iconoclastic Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety were originally intended as a trilogy under the title, Tales of Ordinary People. Mambety’s untimely death in 1998 prevented the completion of the third film.. Mambety had a genius for constructing allegories or fables...
20) Hill of Freedom
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
Description
Kwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (Ryo Kase, Like Someone In Love), who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology… and so must we. Shot in the narrow alleys, petite cafes and beautiful hanok inns...
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