Maeda, Koki
Summary: Separated from his father and younger brother by his parents' divorce, twelve-year-old Koichi puts all his hope in the tale that if two people make the same wish while watching two trains pass each other, the wish will come true and his family will be together again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IOtsuka, Julie.
Summary: Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BENOtsuka, Julie
Summary: Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSGenn
Contents: Rohmeresse -- Days and nights -- a muse (in limbo) -- Heloise -- Calypso -- Le saut du pigeon -- A reprise (that girl) -- Apparition no. 7 -- Wild west -- The sister of -- The merchant of.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: United Kingdom 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GENOtsuka, Ayako
Summary: Whitework Embroidery will show you how to make a variety of stitches including drawn work, pulled thread work, Hedebo, count work, and Schwalm. Full photo-illustrated instructions and all necessary patterns for each of 30 projects are included. Choose from a variety of elegant designs for the home and designs for baby including an heirloom christening gown, bonnet, bib, and booties. --Publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.44 OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: This is a a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides' extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OTSNeuhaus, Nele.
Summary: "The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution-style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm--a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUHenson, Pene
Summary: "The great outdoors isn't so great for Sydney It-Girl Lien Hong. It's too dark, too quiet, and there are spiders in the toilet of the cabin she is sharing with friends on the way to a New South Wales music festival. To make matters worse, she's been separated from her companions and taken a bad fall. With a storm approaching, her rescue comes in the form of a striking wilderness ranger named...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlude Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENNeuhaus, Nele.
Summary: "On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEUBaker, Nena
Summary: Links everyday products to illness-causing chemical buildups in the body, exploring the roles of manufacturing breakthroughs, political policies, and popular culture in exposing people to chemical hazards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.9 BAKSummary: Fearing foster homes and adoption, four orphaned siblings decide to keep their mother's death a secret, hiding her in a cement locker in the basement. Fraught with sexual tension and suspense, The cement garden is a chilling look at unrestrained adolescent desire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CEMCherry, Neneh
Contents: Across the water -- Blank project -- Naked -- Spit three times -- Weightless -- Cynical -- 422 -- Out of the black (featuring Robyn) -- Dossier -- Everything.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHENeye, Emily.
Summary: Describes the appearance, life cycle, habits, habitat, and winter migration of butterflies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Kaaberbol, Lene.
Summary: Red Cross nurse Nina Borg is drawn into Copenhagen's brutal underworld when she becomes the unwitting caretaker of a three-year-old boy who may be a victim of child trafficking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAAKaaberbøl, Lene.
Summary: "On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAANine horses
Contents: Wonderful world -- Darkest birds -- The banality of evil -- Atom and cell -- A history of holes -- Snow borne sorrow -- The day the earth stole heaven -- Serotonin -- The librarian.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Samadhisound 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NINNenn, Kerry
Summary: Goodbye South Pole, hello adventure! Patch is tired of the South Pole. Yawn! He’s bored. So…he’s not going to live there anymore! What silly, salty creatures will Patch meet as he travels north? Will he find a new, exciting home? Find out as you join him on his igloo adventure!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nenn Pen, Ink, 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NENDenfeld, Rene
Summary: "Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKaaberbol, Lene.
Summary: Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help--even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2011
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Kaaberbol, Lene.
Summary: Protecting the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has escaped police custody in the aftermath of a brutal murder, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg struggles with a belief in the woman's innocence as she learns more about her violent past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAATech N9ne
Contents: Le horde (intro) -- Lord of weird -- N9NA -- Hit the ground running / (featuring JL & King Iso) -- Like I ain't -- Green lit / (featuring King Iso & Maez301) -- Chuki fever -- F'n do it / (featuring JL & Futuristic) -- Don't let me fall / (featuring Krizz Kaliko) -- You line! / (featuring Krizz Kaliko) -- EDI's -- Rata / (featuring Krizz Kaliko) -- F.T.I. 2.0 -- She fell -- Sink -- H.O.B. /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Otsuka, Julie
Summary: The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022