Higa, Susumu
Summary: "A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HIGEika, Jonas
Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIKShiga, Jason
Summary: A "choose your own story" graphic novel. In a small medieval coastal town, the residents live in fear of a giant sea creature, the Leviathan, who attacks anyone who lies. Your mission: discover the secrets and defeat the creature before it's too late! How you go about it depends on the choices you make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIShiga, Jason.
Summary: "The Beyond takes place in some sort of afterlife. You don't know much when you begin, save that you're dead and that you've ended up in a room that includes a door, a window, and a table with some books. You need to get out, so you try the door. And then the window. And then you finally turn to the books--and when you open them, you're pulled into the worlds of those pages. Could these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIShiga, Jason.
Summary: When his best friend, Sara, moves to New York City, Jimmy works up the courage to travel cross-country by bus to see her and perhaps change their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comic Art 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHISummary: Kill Bill Vol. 1: "Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback-- with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start, but is determined to finish!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KILShiga, Jason
Summary: Overview: Chocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said "Crazy + Genius = Shiga." Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist's lab, where he's given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHISummary: There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLSummary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRLin, Chia-Chia
Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINHite, Ann
Summary: At the age of ten, Annie Todd finds not only is her mother quite mad but that Annie has inherited an unusual legacy. The ghost of a young girl visits Annie in her new home deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where Annie's mother, Grace Jean, has hidden them away from the life they used to know. Annie finds an unlikely ally in Pearl, a young woman who keeps house in Annie's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HITHigh, Linda Oatman.
Summary: A young girl helps her grandfather tend his bee hives one morning in Spring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline House/Boyds Mills Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZGigl, Robyn
Summary: When a trans woman pleads guilty to killing her millionaire businessman father, transgender attorney Erin McCabe, determined to clear her name when the facts don't add up, becomes trapped in a web of human exploitation, unchecked greed and murder where her quest for justice turns into a struggle to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIGHigman, Anita.
Summary: "The four McBride sisters risk their hearts for love in the islands, canyons, mountains, and bayous of Texas. Deserted at the altar, a devastated Rosy McBride heads back to Galveston Island and begins working at her mother's scrapbooking business. Will spending time with Larson Brookfield help mend her broken heart, or will she merely wind up pasting away? Christian counselor Lily McBride...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGKovály, Heda
Summary: "In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOVGombač, Žiga X.
Summary: "Everyone in the circus loves to perform--except for Adam, the very youngest member of the Von Trapeze family. Wherever Adam Von Trapeze's family circus performs they inspire audiences with their breathtaking feats. Grandma Antonia breathes fire, Uncle Artem builds dizzying human pyramids, and Papa Alexei and Mama Anastasia dance blindfolded on the tightrope. Only Adam, the youngest of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOMSummary: "If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AFTSummary: In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREGigl, Robyn
Summary: Erin McCabe is a New Jersey criminal defense attorney doing her best to live a quiet life in the wake of profound personal change, until a newsworthy case--the murder of a state senator's son--puts both her career and safety in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GiglHegi, Ursula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEGWolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLHegi, Ursula.
Summary: The bestselling and acclaimed author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this first collection in more than a decade. With her passion for storytelling and her elegant prose, Ursula Hegi balances us on that magical border where laughter and sorrow become one. She knows the language of pleasure, the language of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEGHegi, Ursula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2007