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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
286 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alex Jackson explores the cooking of France's borderlands: from the geographical to the historical, linguistic, and metaphorical. His journey takes us through the Riviera, where the border has shifted many times but the cooking remains of a delicious whole, to the Occitan valleys of the Italian Alps, the Franco-German cooking of Alsace, and to Marseille, one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean, and its historic (and current) links with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Flaky, fluffy, warm, exquisite-from madeleines and eclairs to baguettes and pain au chocolat, these delicious culinary delights bring you to the heart of French baking. Perfect for the aspiring pastry chef and the experienced baker alike, this cookbook provides you with tips and techniques from the experts themselves, so you can create perfection every time. This comprehensive guide includes step-by-step instructions for every bread, pastry, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, comes a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal and the pleasure of bringing joy to people through food. Erin French grew up barefoot on a 25-acre farm in Maine, fell in love with food as a teenager working the line at her dad's diner and found her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant The Lost Kitchen, tucked into a 19th century mill-now a world-renowned...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two mismatched ducks quarrel amorously. A tortoise basks on a rock in the sun. Four deer ceremoniously visit a writer's garden to announce the arrival of a newborn fawn. In Archives of Joy, renowned poet, essayist, and novelist Jean-François Beauchemin turns his poetic and playful gaze to memories of animals he has known throughout his life, from fleeting encounters to deep relationships. With each meeting, Beauchemin returns to a simple thought:...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join Papa Smurf, Smurfette, and rest of the lovable blue smurfs for classic, three-apple tall adventures, translated into English for the first time. Life in the Smurfs Village is not unlike what seems to be going on in the real world lately. Theres trouble breaking out all over the village! Papa Smurf is tired of always being the sole peacekeeper. He decides to create a Smurf Code and install some smurfs to regulate this zSmurf and Order,y but, will...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
157 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
First, Brainy Smurf gets a bit more smarter (if possible) when he uncovers a mysterious book that contains all the answers. But does it have the answer to how he can became popular with the other smurfs? This book--THE SMURF TALES-- will tell all! Second, Smurfette steps in for Papa Smurf and takes charge of all of Smurfs Village in his absence. When the other smurfs don't take her seriously, Smurfette must assert her leadership and protect the village...
7) Home
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
9) Elemental
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
10) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
Français
Description
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"French bulldog Billy the Kid was born with an ear for music. And not just any music. He loves barking to the beat of country music! So Billy sets out to Nashville to sing his heart out. But when he meets some big bullies at the Battle of the Bow-wows, Billy worries he's barking up the wrong tree. He'll need his favorite songs ('Jowlene' and 'I Will Pawlways Love You,' of course), a group of scrappy new friends, and his favorite country music star...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (511 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to the Harpers' Malibu beach house. Bachelor Charlie is trying (but not very hard) to remember the name of the girl currently taking a shower upstairs. Alan, Charlie's tightly-wound, divorced brother is trying to figure out how he can get his ex-wife to remarry so he can stop paying alimony. And Jake, Alan's 11-year-old son, is just trying to figure out what's for lunch and where's the TV remote. After a year of living together, the guys...
15) Change
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
245 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author aEdouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
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