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Chau, Chan Chen, Sylvia Chern, Lina Chien Chow Chine, Aur©♭lie Chieng, Chieh. Dahl, MichaelSummary: "By the early-1970s, Chang Cheh was already Shaw Brothers' most prolific and well-known director with a plethora of box office hits (including the One-Armed Swordsman franchise) to his name and renowned for discovering the hottest young talents to star in his films. Three of those stars - David Chiang, Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng - all feature in Five Shaolin Masters and Shaolin Temple, two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHASummary: 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 ASSChien Chow Chine, Aur©♭lie
Summary: A little unicorn feels all kinds of emotions, including sadness, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: A little unicorn feels all kinds of emotions, including shyness, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1920s China, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. Competition between the wives is fierce, as their master's attention carries power, status and privileges. Each night Chen must decide which wife to spend the night with and a red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razor Digital Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAISummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINChen, Sylvia
Summary: Jenny Chow, determined to hold her own in her family's annual chopsticks challenge, creates a solution through STEAM trial and error to master those slippery, oh-so-tricky chopsticks. Includes instructions on how to make DIY chopstick tongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHESummary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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Summary: Captured by the sadistic guards of the prison planet Alcatraz, the two teenage friends, Zak, and the alien Erro, are placed in bottomless cages hovering over a sea of poison acid and if they fall asleep or lose their grip they will fall to their deaths--and Zak will need all of his ingenuity if he is going to figure out a way to save himself and his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHSummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRESummary: Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family's past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CREDahl, Michael
Summary: Pursued by a killer cyborg tank and surrounded by snakes that spit fire, teenage friends Zak and Erro the furling from the planet Quom, must figure out a way to survive if they are ever to escape from the prison planet called Alcatraz--a situation they are in because they stowed away on a space ship they did not know was headed here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHChau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BABChieng, Chieh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHISummary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMSummary: When Beijing journalist Ga Yu arrives in a remote Tibetan village, he immediately finds himself embedded in a relentless manhunt across the barren waste lands of Kekexili. Acting without the Chinese government's approval, this ragtag group of impoverished vigilantes has sworn to capture of kill the poachers responsible for decimating the sacred antelope of Kekexili.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: Set in tumultuous 1960s Singapore, Sam Callaghan an Australian expat, agrees to help his neighbor Patricia Cheng at her detective agency after her husband is mysteriously killed while working a case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SERSummary: Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BURSummary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN OKJSummary: MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage but is shaken to the core when a stranger shows up with the same unique birthmark, and a deadly assassin shows up moments later. In order to protect his family -- and the fate of the earth -- Cole and his companions must travel across the world and into other dimensions to discover their unique magical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MORSummary: Blade : "Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade -- half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), his mentor, guardian, and fellow hunter of the night. When the bloodthirsty Immortals' lord, Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), declares war on the human race, Blade is humanity's last hope for survival." -- Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video, 2017