Mao, Zedong
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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Summary: Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 951 FRO PART 1Call number: DVD 951 FRO PART 2
Call number: DVD 951 FRO PART 3
Summary: Khrushchev and Mao in Beijing rally to commemorate the Revolution, the western VO is quite critical of Communism
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Nguyen, Tung
Summary: "In 1975, Tung Nguyen fled Vietnam as a pregnant refugee and landed in Miami, where she met Kathy Manning, an American grad student who opened her doors to eleven immigrants. The two women grew close, raising Tung's daughter, Lyn, together and opening a tiny restaurant. Hy Vong, meaning Hope in Vietnamese, quickly became famous in the local community for its delicious, authentic Vietnamese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 NGUSummary: Part four of the series China: Through Mao's Eyes details the watershed Nixon-Mao diplomacy, Mao's death and its aftermath, and the legacy of his rule and philosophy. Scenes showing an aged and infirm Mao meeting with foreign emissaries and CPC assemblies reveal his determination to shape policy and preserve his imposing image as long as possible. Today's citizens who look back nostalgically on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: After illustrating how a combination of laws, customs, and Confucian philosophy had reduced Chinese women to chattels, this program examines in detail the turning points from the late-19th through mid-20th centuries that paved the way for a complete reversal in Chinese women's status. Remarkable vintage film and fascinating interviews with women whose lives have spanned the 20th century provide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China came into being following the victory of Mao Tse-tung's forces over the Kuomintang, which fled to the island of Taiwan. Thus the Communists completed a revolution begun by the idealistic Sun Yat-sen in the early 1920s. This program documents how Sun's idealism came under Bolshevik guidance; the roles of the young Chiang Kai-shek and Mao; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Tung, Debbie
Summary: "This illustrated gift book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung's experience as an introvert in an extrovert's world. Presented in a loose narrative style that can be read front to back or dipped into at one's leisure, the book spans three years of Debbie's life, from the end of college to the present day. In these early years of adulthood, Debbie slowly but finally discovers there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TUNAcid Mothers Temole & Cosmic Inferno
Contents: Om riff from the cosmic inferno.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Fu Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AcidBehling, Steve
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Avengers' Civil War, Scott Lang, the incredible Ant-Man, is grappling with the consequences of his choices -- as a Super Hero, a father, and a friend. While he struggles to rebalance his life (and get used to living under house arrest), Hope Van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym have been forced into hiding, and Hope has taken up her own Super Hero mantle: the Wasp. With Hope and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "A marriage of convenience between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd London politician makes for a scandalous Victorian bargain--and a love that will eclipse the burdens of ambition and duty. Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna familia. So, when Ana María is secretly sent to London with her sisters to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE LCitro, Asia
Summary: An old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod. Zoey, Sassafras and Pip must work together to discover what this mysterious and rare magical plant needs to grow before all the seeds crumble to purple dust!--from book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Citro 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CITFowler, Christopher.
Summary: "No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London's peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWSummary: "The Heroic Trio and its sequel, Executioners, follow a new kind of justice league: a team of blade-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung fu-fighting heroines who join forces to battle evildoers in a dystopian, noirish city"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HERZinovieff, Sofka.
Summary: "A narrative account of the author's bohemian aristocrat grandparents' unconventional relationship with her grandfather's gay lover examines the period taboos, family secrets and cultural dynamics that shaped their shared lives,"--Novelist
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 ZINBunting, Eve
Summary: "A beginning reader book containing two stories featuring Frog and his friends, where the friends mistake a train for a terrible dragon and Frog rescues a baby possum after it falls into a river"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Pub 0000
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Summary: "A beginning reader book containing two stories featuring Frog and his friends, where the friends mistake a train for a terrible dragon and Frog rescues a baby possum after it falls into a river"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BUNWilson, Edward O.
Summary: "Summary Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants-from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. " Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony. . . . Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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Contents: Disc 1. Handwoven -- Dewey's tune -- Chairman Mao -- Next to the quiet stream -- Augmented -- Old and new dreams.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: C.A.M. 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HADSummary: This program offers an in-depth appraisal of how China's women's movement slowly gathered momentum under Mao Zedong's and Deng Xiao Ping's rule during the latter half of the 20th century. Outstanding footage from propaganda and documentary sources and compelling interviews with women who participated in the events of those decades reveal the hard-won gains through Communist legal and social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1972
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 912 RANIvinson, Yvonne
Summary: A fox sets out across the sea in a floating box on a grand adventure full of endless possibilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope play Joke-a-Stroke Golf
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952
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Contents: The ambush (Lu Pei-yuan, pʻipʻa) (6:29) -- Some ways of touching the chʻin (3:52) ; Water and clouds over the rivers Hsiao and Hsiang (10:11) (Tsar Teh-yun, chʻin) -- Wild geese descend on level sands (Chan Hon-kwong, cheng) (7:28) -- High moon : a composition in twelve movements describing the course of the moon from its rising to its setting (C.K. Wong, nan hsiao ; Lu Pei-yuan, pʻi pʻa)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy International 1988