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Cain, Chelsea. Cain, Matt Cao, Lan. Chi, Luna Frear, Caz Guojing Hai, Hong Rai, Alisha Sennaar, Mai Thom, Kai ChengSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLISummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: From a highly acclaimed illustrator comes a stunning graphic novel filled with adventure and wonder about an imaginative girl and her obsession with flamingoes. A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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Summary: In this wordless graphic novel, a young woman slowly befriends a stray puppy, who finds a forever home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "A boy feels his passion for lion dancing re-igniting after the death of his father, and so he decides to join the local junior team, where his ex-best friend becomes his new rival"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents, toppling her carefully constructed life in this vibrant, insightful debut from an exciting new voice in fiction. Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny town in central Illinois where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAICao, Wenxuan
Summary: Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAOFrear, Caz
Summary: "After a brief stint in the Mayor's Office, DC Cat Kinsella is back at the London Metropolitan Police, wisecracking with her partner Luigi Parnell and trying to avoid the wrath of the boss, DI Kate Steele. But for Cat and Parnell, it's serious business when a young Australian woman turns up dead after a party thrown by her new boss. The initial investigation of Naomi Lockhart's murder points to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Frear 2019Rai, Alisha
Summary: If Sonia Patil had her way, she'd be attending her local comic con instead of covering a shift for her boss's daughter. Since Sonia's mom was deported and her sister, who never claimed deferred status under DACA, had to forgo college to support them, Sonia's had her hands full with work, school, and pretending everything is okay at home. Then Sonia, in homemade superhero cosplay, stumbles into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAICopies Available at East Bay
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Summary: One minute, Katrina King's enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she's painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn't the man she's hungry for . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rai 2020Rai, Alisha
Summary: While settling her aunt's affairs with the help of Naveen Desai, a lawyer--and the man she rejected--Mira and Naveen find themselves in a mad dash through Las Vegas, following clues to untangle the mess her family left behind, which puts both their lives in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAIRai, Alisha
Summary: "Two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom. Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her career--and the occasional hookup. Thecynical dating app creator controls her love life with a few key rules: - Nude pics are by invitation only - If someone stands you up, block...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAIDai, Sijie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAISummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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Summary: "An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut, Monkey Bridge, won her wide renown for "connecting . .. the opposite realities of Vietnam and America" (Isabel Allende). In her triumphant new novel, Cao transports readers back to the war,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cao 2014Cao, Lan.
Summary: A memoir of a Vietnamese refugee. The narrator, Mai Nguyen, was 13 when a helicopter lifted her from Saigon. Scenes of war written in lyrical Oriental style alternate with reflections on America, such as the obsession with winning and the usurping of parental authority by teachers. By the author of Everything You Need to Know about Asian Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOFrear, Caz
Summary: "Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling nonstop commitments, from raising a teen and two toddlers to job hunting to renovating her dream home, the Meadowhouse. Amid the chaos, an ominous note arrives in the mail, declaring: People have to learn there are consequences. Why would someone send her this? Ellen has no clue. She's no angel -- a white lie here, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREThom, Kai Cheng
Summary: A young child magically transforms into different animal guises as their mother reassures them of her love, but when they get to school, their classmates are not as accepting of the child's fluid identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOCain, Chelsea.
Summary: Addicted to painkillers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAICain, Matt
Summary: "If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice cream flavors made by his family's company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla--sweet, inoffensive, and pleasantly predictable. At forty-three, Ted is convinced there's nothing remotely remarkable about him, except perhaps his luck in having landed handsome, charismatic Giles as a husband. Then Giles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Based on the Disney/Pixar animated feature film Inside Out 2, releasing this summer in theaters, stories at various reading levels take kids on an all-new adventure inside the mind of now-teenager Riley, who is definitely feeling all kinds of new Emotions!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2024