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Avi Kasama, Sanshiro Kikuta, Michiyo. Seo, Mi-ae Tanaka, Ai Wilson, Karma Yumoto, KazumiSummary: When new transfer student Isuzu asks Seiya Kanie out on a date at gunpoint, he knows something odd is going on. Especially since she wants to go to Amagi Brilliant Park, where the rides are either dangerous or mind-numbingly dull and the only costumed performers who aren't rude or apathetic are the ones who didn't show up for work. So when Isuzu asks Seiya to take over as the park's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME AMASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: 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 AIRSummary: In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CATSummary: The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAMSummary: A schoolgirl named Shizuku, who longs to discover her true talents, meets the mysterious Seiji, a boy who is determined to follow his dreams, and The Baron, a magical cat who helps her listen to the whispers in her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WHISummary: A schoolgirl named Shizuku, who longs to discover her true talents, meets the mysterious Seiji, a boy who is determined to follow his dreams, and the Baron, a magical cat who helps her listen to the whispers in her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2012
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Summary: Criminal psychologist Seonkyeong receives an unexpected call one day. Yi Byeongdo, a serial killer whose gruesome murders shook the world, wants to be interviewed. Yi Byeongdo, who has refused to speak to anyone until now, asks specifically for her. Seonkyeong agrees out of curiosity. That same day Hayeong, her husband's eleven-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, shows up at their door...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEOSummary: "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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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INFTanaka, Ai
Summary: "Eight years have passed since the sickness known as 'the Sleep' ended millions of lives. Now, after a dangerous procedure that involves diving into patients' memories has ended the pandemic, Petty Officer Adam Garfield wakes up in a hospital to find a bomb has taken one of his legs. But Adam's plan to retire from U.S. Navy service and cash in his pension to goof around with his younger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha USA 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KINWilson, Karma
Summary: In rhyming text, parents express their love for their multicultural babies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILKikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Just as Nina explains to her friends her idea of the perfect guy, two of them drive in from the sky and abduct her. The boys are not human or from this world. They're taking their Magic Exam, in which they must recover the Crystal Pearl, an object Nina had mistaken for a piece of candy just moments before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk 1Summary: The legend of the invincible fleet begins! Set five years before the epic battle depicted in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Hansan: Rising Dragon is based on the true historical naval engagement, Battle of Hansan Island. In July 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his Korean naval fleet face off against invading Japanese naval warships. Falling into crisis, the admiral must use his secret weapon to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HANKikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Nina has a crush on Ichi, a cute boy wizard. But she also likes Zero, his best friend. Nina can't seem to choose between these two charmers. But when Zero sneaks a kiss, Nina is more confused than ever. Will Nina ever learn to listen to her heart?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk6Summary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAIKasama, Sanshiro
Summary: "Everyone's favorite Merc with a Mouth has finally come to manga! As soon as Deadpool moves to Tokyo, he runs afoul of some familiar faces. Before he knows it, he's teaming up with new heroes, battling gods, attending concerts, and being repeatedly dismembered. That's good, right? Anyway, Deadpool lands in Tokyo with a bang! What could possibly go wrong when Iron Man invites Deadpool join the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DEASummary: "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 BLIAvi
Summary: Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: "A wolf and bird must fight the starving time and find food, while a human boy learns to hunt"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2015Avi
Summary: After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD AVIAvi
Summary: In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017