Summary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOSummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INFYuduka, Masanari
Summary: "Two years have passed since Rosa began walking the path to knighthood. Her days are now a whirlwind of training and cultivation as a newly-minted squire. But big news of the Claustra siblings' futures breaches the castle Lacerta's departure to different lands and Viola's impending marriage. Together, they have grown beside Rosa, sharing her aspirations as both a future Claustra knight and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KNISummary: Story of a contemporary Japanese family torn apart after its patriarch unexpectedly loses his job. Ashamed, he keeps this a secret, but as he grows more despondent, his family resorts to drastic measures to break away from their fractured lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKTran, Thi Minh Phuoc
Summary: Collects fifteen Vietnamese folktales, including "Mai An Tiem and the watermelon seeds," which tells the story about orphan Mai An Tiem who is banished to a remote island by the king despite his loyalty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRAYuduka, Masanari
Summary: "Rosa dreams of taking up arms as a courageous knight! To be one, she must first be a squire. Those duties around the castle are much less glorious. One moment she's caring for the horses in the stable. Next she's battling the task of chopping firewood or conquering a mountain of laundry. She must be ever-ready to assist the knight she serves! Her role may seem small and the tasks mundane, but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KNITau
Contents: Mother -- The bridge of Khajou -- Mo anam gara -- The midnight jaguar -- I see you -- Venadito -- E'spiral -- Tara
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fuzz Club
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TAUSummary: "If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AFTSummary: Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris₂s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE INSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INSTai, Lolly
Summary: The Magic of Children’s Gardens features hundreds of comprehensive drawings and gorgeous photographs of successful children’s outdoor environments, detailed explanations of the design process, and the criteria needed to create attractive and pleasing gardens for children to augment their physical, mental, and emotional development.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 TAISummary: When Lu comes ashore and adds her mermaid singing to a middle-school rock band, a threatening ancient prophecy follows her, so Kai and her other bandmates step up to come to Lu's--and the village's--rescue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME LUSummary: After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Yundi
Contents: 1. in C Major (0:31) -- 2. in A Minor (2:03) -- 3. in G Major (0:52) -- 4. in E Minor (1:43) -- 5. in D Major (0:29) -- 6. in B Minor (1:41) -- 7. in A Major (0:45) -- 8. in F Sharp Minor (1:30) -- 9. in E Major (1:35) -- 10. in C Sharp Minor (0:24) -- 11. in B Major (0:33) -- 12. in G Sharp Minor (1:02) -- 13. in F Sharp Major (2:41) -- 14. in E Flat Minor (0:27) -- 15. in D Flat Major...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Classics 2015
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Kimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn't find the missing girl, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman, and his own path to redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: The inhabitants of a small Japanese seaside town come under the influence of a strange force that causes an obsession with spiral forms. One by one, the townspeople fall under its spell until they begin descending on a self-inflicted spiral of terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Tai, Elaine
Summary: This Kickstarter-funded picture book about consent presents various scenarios in which kids (and even adults) might feel uncomfortable, and addressing how to express and respect those boundaries and concerns. In thinking about how we teach or learn about ways we grant access to our own bodies and others', this book stems from the author's experiences as a librarian, as well as in her own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAITaxi Taxi!
Contents: Still standing at your back door -- Moore childish than in a long time -- Old big trees -- Same side of the moon -- All I think of -- His heart or mine -- While I hold on to the cliff -- Ripest fruit -- Birdful eyes -- Mary.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fierce Panda 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TAXSummary: After his father, King Andragoras III, falls victim to a treacherous plot led by some of his most trusted retainers, Arslan, crown prince of the fictional kingdom of Pars, barely escapes with his life and rejoins his loyal servant, Daryun, and a few other companions to assemble an army strong enough to retake his homeland from the Lusitanian Army led by an elusive warrior known as "Silvermask."...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME HERTar.
Contents: Lady steps -- G7 -- Dean Martin -- Good part (wrong band) -- Teetering -- Solution 98 -- Deep throw.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Touch & Go 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TARSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi
Summary: "In Chemistry for Breakfast, award-winning chemist and science communicator Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim reveals the amazing chemistry behind everyday things (like baking and toothpaste) and not-so-everyday things (like space travel). With a relatable, funny, and conversational style, she explains essential chemical processes everyone should know--and turns the ordinary into extraordinary"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 NGUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 NGUSummary: Earth's last city, Olympus rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city's population. Human terrorists seek a return to power and clash with a legendary soldiers, Deunan Knute and her boyfriend who is 75% machine. To save humanity and end the conflicts, retrieving the Appleseed is a must. Deunan alone holds it's secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon 2005