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Comic books, strips, etc Japan Translations into English Good and evil Good and evil Comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Japan Japan London (England) Comic books, strips, etc Pirates Drama Stories in rhyme Supernatural Comic books, strips, etc Vampires Comic books, strips, etcSummary: "A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSummary: Follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his friends in order to find the greatest treasure ever left by the legendary Pirate, Gol D Roger: the famous mystery treasure named 'One Piece.' In this collection, Luffy's impulsive attack on Gecko Moria ends up costing the rubber-man his shadow! Luckily, his skeleton friend, Brook, will lend a hand in exchange for a little help defeating a zombie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ONESummary: The harrowing Thriller Bark arc reaches its brutal end with a superhuman slugfest! Luffy, battered beyond belief, pushes his body past the breaking point as he seeks to save his friends and deliver the decisive blow against Gecko Moria. When the dust clears, only Zoro and Sanji are left standing to protect their fallen captain from the brutish Bartholomew Kuma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Chhibber, Preeti
Summary: "Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and learn how to use the Force in this hilarious and stylized picture book narrated by everybody's favorite Jedi Master, Yoda!" --Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Lucasfilm Press 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Ōima, Yoshitoki
Summary: "Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SILAhmed, Roda
Summary: When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AHMMadokoro, Hisako
Summary: A puppy named Buster helps a lost and frightened kitten find its mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Summary: When Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who had retired from the spotlight 30 years prior. As she recounts her career, Genya and his crew are literally pulled into her memories where they witness her chance encounter with a mysterious man on the run from the police. Despite never knowing his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME MILŌima, Yoshitoki
Summary: Despite their tense pasts, Shoya begins to embrace the friend group that used to terrorize Shoko because she couldn't hear. Now that summer vacation is in full swing, the crew can work together to film Tomohiro's eccentric movie. Each fun-filled day lazily passes by, but doubt tugs at Shoya's heavy heart and he is desperate to cling on to meaningful moments before they are gone ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Kawakami, Hiromi
Summary: In the Nakano Thrift Shop, the young woman who works the register falls for her reserved co-worker and asks her employers sister for advice in attracting him and soon comes to realize that love requires acceptance of idiosyncrasies and secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWKotb, Hoda
Summary: What makes us happy all day through? Let's count those things, just me and you.... Inspired by her own nighttime routine with her daughter, Haley Joy, Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb has written a book that celetrates the things that make us happy each day... the big things and the small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD KOTSummary: Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. In a fun twist, six NASCAR stars pop up in non-driver cameo roles in the film.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOG RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LoganMadokoro, Hisako
Summary: Buster is frightened by the strong winds outside his dog house until he goes outside to play and discovers what fun the wind can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Samura, Hiroaki.
Summary: These stories are told with the same bold, kinetic art style and brilliantly paced storytelling that Samura's Blade of the Immortal epic is famous for. The main offering, "Ohikkoshi," follows the turbulent paths of several twenty-something art students as they fall in love, fall in lust, play in rock bands, ride motorbikes, eat, sleep (together), and try to avoid making life decisions while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OHIKiyoko, Hayley
Summary: Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS. Its summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KIYHirano, Kohta
Summary: "The Hellsing Organization is under siege by the undead Nazi army of the Millennium Project, who are turning the streets of London into rivers of blood and the citizenry into a legion of abominations. And with this murderous conflict at a fever pitch, the Vatican sees an opportunity to take down both Millennium and Hellsing in one swift stroke"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HELHirano, Kohta
Summary: "The international hit manga series concludes in this deluxe hardcover edition, collecting Kohta Hirano's action-horror epic for the first time in its original 7x10 serialized format. Includes a cover gallery, author notes, character profiles, and Hirano's zany meta short stories. The curtain rises on the final act of the apocalyptic war between vampires, werewolves, fanatics, and mercenaries....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HELMurata, Kiyoko
Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: Born to be a star, Etta prepares for her big performance in her school's talent show, but when she gets pre-show jitters, her loving family helps her through it so she can shine in the spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AHMArakawa, Hiromu
Summary: When Edward and Alphonse Elric dabble in alchemy, they end up physically changed and with unique powers which the government uses for different purposes, including murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Graphic FulCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ARA Bk1Arakawa, Hiromu
Summary: "Trapped and injured in a secret alchemical laboratory, Edward Elric is at the mercy of his enemies, Lust and Envy. But they don't want him dead--they have other plans for him. As the laboratory goes up in flames, the brothers find themselves back at square one, with only an inkling of the massive scale of the Philosopher's Stone conspiracy. But then, Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes uncovers a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FULHirano, Ryoji
Summary: "Savage demons devour unsuspecting humans in Taisho-era Japan. Armed with special swords, the Demon Slayer Corps fights to stop the devastation demons spread. Giyu Tomioka, the sole Water Hashira, and Kyojuro Rengoku, a high-ranking Kinoe, embark on missions to eliminate demons and prove their mettle as two of the fiercest Demon Slayers. Giyu heads north to an area where a band of hunters was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022