Mochizuki, Ken
Summary: "A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WEGSummary: Choosing a college and striking out on one's own is an exciting time that requires a big adjustment by both child and parent, but few parents will have as much difficulty relinquishing control over their daughter's life as Chicago police chief James Porter. A loving, but overprotective father, James wants his daughter Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern College. When she's waitlisted and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY COLSummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KWAMen
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MENKem
Contents: Saving my love for you -- Promise to love -- Downtown -- Beautiful world -- Do what you gotta do -- Say something real -- My favorite thing -- It's you -- The soft side of love -- Nobody -- Pray for me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KEMKem.
Contents: Find your way (back in my life) (4:33) -- Heaven (6:23) -- Into you (5:02) -- I can't stop loving you (5:23) -- Without you (4:08) -- Set you free (4:26 ) -- I'm in love (4:23) -- True love (4:25) -- Each other (3:44) -- You might win (3:47) -- I get lifted (4:04).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES KEMKeno, Leigh.
Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINMochizuki, Jun
Summary: Where in the world are you? This question is posed to Oz Vessalius once more. After overcoming the chains of infinite despair that bind him, the answer at which he arrives becomes a blinding light, piercing through the jet-black darkness. As though hope can be spun out of the emotions of a person's heart ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2014
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Summary: "The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PANMochizuki, Jun.
Summary: "The players in this tale arrive at the answer to the question of how to save their world, a solution that has traversed time and space. Cruel yet kind, it is a simple formula. Now, led by the cogs of destiny, one story comes to a close...as if it were no more than a ridiculous fairy tale." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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Summary: "The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PANSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUMochizuki, Jun.
Summary: "Just when it seems the tragedy of Sablier is on the verge of recurring at Isla Yura's residence, the sinister blade of the Headhunter swings once more. From the darkness where the mysteries of Fianna's House and Humpty Dumpty converge, one truth will come to light: an unmoving reality that is itself so shocking, it seems like an illusion-- Will Oz and his allies ever recover?" -- from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2013
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Summary: "The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2012
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Summary: "The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2012
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Summary: "The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PANMochizuki, Jun
Summary: "The tragedy that befell a bustling city a hundred years earlier. Eyes of ill omen. Stone seals. The warped gears that have continued turning since long ago play out a requiem for one who was much loved. The solemn sound of the dirge colors the world that hears its notes a melancholy gray-- as though it was always meant to be" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PANMochizuki, Jun.
Summary: As Gil, Oz, and Alice wander the ruins of the former capital, they are assaulted by illusions from the past. But how much of it is real? And how much of it illusion?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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Summary: "The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PANSummary: In this madcap and lighthearted comedic romp, introverted optometrist Weichung begins to question his marriage with his wife Feng, upon learning of her desire to have another baby. At his sister's engagement party, Weichung bumps into an old friend, Stephen, a wedding photographer who, though also married, is living the high life of a younger, single gay man. When Stephen teases Weichung for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WILContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIN