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Age: from 8 years old Reading Level: from 3rd Grade
Thanks to these short bilingual stories, children will learn to master both French and English.
Nightbelle is a bat, perfectly adapted to her environment. If she had been born in China, she would have understood straightaway she was the symbol of happiness. Her whole life would not have been turned upside down so much!
And we'd have had to do without her story! For Nightbelle, who does not know...
3) Night
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"Night--A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family ... the death of his innocence ... and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The diary of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again"--Provided by publisher....
5) Night flight
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 63
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English
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A story of the early days of commercial aviation.
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An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency. "I Remain in Darkness" recounts Annie's attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. "I Remain in Darkness" is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with...
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"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar...
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"A writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris. In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. A half century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, he retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting...
11) A season in hell
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Omnidawn Pub
Pub. Date
2007
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103 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2014.
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1st U. S. ed. 2014.
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341 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as Delphine grew up, Lucile's occasional sadness gave way to overwhelming despair and delusion. She became convinced she was telepathic and in control of the Paris metro system; she gave away all her money; she was hospitalized,...
13) Sentimento
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Philips
Pub. Date
p2000
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1 sound disc (ca. 60 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Italiano
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Criterion collection volume 771
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Widescreen.
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2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
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150 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room? And why does everyone at Three Widows Crossroads have something to hide?
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Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
c2012
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Widescreen ed.
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1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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"Sleepless night tells the story of Vincent, a respected and dedicated police officer--or so it seems. After he and a colleague are recognized while stealing a massive bag of cocaine from drug dealers employed by local mob boss Marciano, Vincent quickly finds himself trapped in a situation that no parent would envy: his son had been kidnapped with the promise of execution if he doesn't immediately deliver the bag back to its rightful owner. Vincent...
18) Hotel salvation
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Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Widescreen.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hindi
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An ominous dream convinces 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar that his end could be near. He takes the news to his son Rajiv, knowing he wants to breathe his last in the holy city of Varanasi and end the cycle of rebirth, by attaining salvation. Being the dutiful son he is, Rajiv, is left with no choice but to drop everything and make the journey with his stubborn father. Daya and Rajiv check into Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation) in Varanasi, a guesthouse devoted...
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Jack Zipes is the editor of The Sorcerer's Apprentice and The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (both Princeton), as well as The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton). He is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.
Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current times
Édouard Laboulaye (1811–1883), one of nineteenth-century France's most prominent...
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