Summary: 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 ONC
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC

Summary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROG

Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: Batman, along with a number of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transplanted from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BAT

Summary: When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping the entity's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BYE

Summary: A 12-year-old tech prodigy's science experiment goes awry and he forges a telepathic connection with his best friend, his dog. The duo join forces and use their unique perspectives on life to comically overcome complications of family and school.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THI

Gorman, Zac

Summary: Klem and his pals aren't the most popular Grubbins in candy-starved Repugia, but Klem's hoping that will change once he brings a hoard of candy back from the human world. After all, it's Halloween, so there's candy everywhere! Unfortunately, there're also bullies everywhere, ready to steal all of Klem's sweet, sweet loot. Will he and his friends make it out alive, or are they doomed to an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOR

Summary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IP

Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IP

Summary: A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLA

Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASS

Downie, Ruth

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOW

Downie, Ruth

Summary: After years of military service, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are summoned away. When a mysterious note consisting only of the words "COME HOME" arrives in the mail, Ruso is forced to give up his career as a doctor and head back home to his family - in Gaul. But all is not well on the home front. Tilla's reception is unexpectedly icy, and no one will admit to having sent for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DOW

Summary: The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She₂s working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at "First Husband" duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRE

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRE

Downie, David

Summary: "A haunting and luminous novel that explores the dark secrets lurking beneath the stunning natural beauty of a dying timber town. A mysterious beachcomber appears one day on the coastal bluffs near the small town of Carverville, a place whose best days are long behind it. Who is he, and why has he returned after nearly forty years? Carverville's prodigal son, James, serendipitously finds work...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOW

Downie, Ruth

Summary: Tending to the reluctant builders of Hadrian's Great Wall in the aftermath of a costly rebellion, the medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, investigate the disappearances of Ruso's clerk and the son of a native family, an effort that is complicated by rising tensions between the Britons and Romans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOW

Summary: Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy Curran and Leonora Chisholm believed that they were soulmates. When they meet again eight years later, Guy aims to reclaim her, no matter who stands in his way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RUT

Downie, Ruth

Summary: Gaius Petreius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His arrival in Deva (commonly known as Chester, England) does little to improve his mood, and after a straight thirty-six-hour shift at the hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOW

Downie, Ruth

Summary: "Russo and Tilla's excitement upon arriving in Rome with their baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too may doctors--some skilled, but others positively dangerous. Ruso thinks he has been offered a reputable medical practice only to find that his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOW

Downie, Ruth

Summary: In the far reaches of the Roman Empire, there are three certainties in life for Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso: death, taxes, and angry barbarians. The hero finds himself trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of Boudica, the rebel queen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOW