Summary: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WindtalkersSummary: Zootopia is a city like no other that is comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it's a melting pot where animals from every environment live together. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn't so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ZOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOO RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD ZootopiaSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INFSummary: Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VeSummary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh start.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SECPhung, Nguyen Quang
Summary: "This is no ordinary first journey. The rainy season has come to the Mekong Delta, and An, a young Vietnamese boy, sets out alone in a wooden boat wearing a little backpack and armed only with a single oar. On the way, he is confronted by giant crested waves, heavy rainfall and eerie forests where fear takes hold of him. Although daunted by the dark unknown, An realizes that he is not alone and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Phung 2021Phung, Nguyen Quang
Summary: "A . . . picture book about a family's connection to their land, their home, and each other . . . Long ago, Grandfather came to a new land. Fish swam in the water, birds chirped in the sky, monkeys played in the trees. And in this wilderness, with his own two hands, Grandfather built a house.It wasn't easy. But the land gave him what he needed. And it became his home. Decades later, his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHUSummary: Hunt follows two agents in Korean Central Intelligence tasked with hunting a North Korean spy embedded within their agency. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, they slowly start to uncover an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president. -- provided by publisher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HUNSummary: After the shocking kidnapping of a little girl in Thailand, a mercenary with a murky past as a government black ops agent is forced to re-emerge from the shadows when he learns the incident is closely connected to him. With the help of expat Yui, he flies to Thailand and begins tracking the girl's whereabouts, moving ever closer to the notorious child trafficking ring responsible for her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DELHoward, Terrence
Summary: Follows music mogul Lucious Lyon who, after he is diagnosed with ALS, must decide which of his family members should take his place as head of the business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPMcCauley, Terrence
Summary: "In the boomtown of Dover Station, Montana, tracks have been laid and everyone's looking to make a fortune, lawfully or not. And the law has something to say about it--one bullet at a time"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCSummary: Mija is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural center and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she's appreciate the wonders of the natural world, but a school girl's suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN POESummary: 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 ASSSummary: A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECChung, Catherine.
Summary: Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chung 2012Porter, Chana
Summary: "Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle-but nonetheless world-changing-invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2020
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Summary: Amy Wu would love to welcome the new student in her class, but Lin has just come from China and does not speak much English, so with the help of her family Amy tries to work out a way to bridge the language gap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he's a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon, an unlikely bond forms between...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: JT CD Fiction ChongPorter, Chana
Summary: "In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORShang, Wendy
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