Summary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHYū, Miri
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Rain Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUYū, Miri
Summary: In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. She summons Korean shamans to hold an intense, transcendent ritual to connect with Lee Woo-cheol. When his ghost appears,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINGipi
Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GIPPettersen, Siri
Summary: Separated and struggling to survive in two different worlds, Hirka and Rime vow to defeat the ancient evil that offers immortality at a dangerous price.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETMiki, Slavia
Summary: "Peggy's Impossible Tale is told in the voice of a remarkable guinea pig. Full of action and surprises, it is guaranteed to captivate the attention of beginning readers. Peggy learns how to communicate with the loving family that adopted her, and goes on to win a much-coveted prize for her accomplishments."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tradewind Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MIKLeshem-Pelly, Miri
Summary: "A doodle girl named Penny sets out from her own plain piece of paper to try to find more interesting and fun ways to spend her time"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LESHernández, Mili
Summary: Federico the cat travels from roof to roof to visit all his families; among them are Tadeo, who lives with his grandparents, Ana and her two moms, and Virginia with her father and mother. They are different families and Federico loves them all equally.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NubeOcho 2020
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Summary: Sworn enemies Space Dog, Astrocat, and Mousetronaut team up to save the Spooniverse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREGrant, Mira.
Summary: Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera. The broken doors are closing. Can Sal make it home?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: "When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late Harriet Burden. Intrigued by her story, and by the explosive scandal surrounding her legacy, he begins to interview those who knew her, hoping to separate fact from fiction, only to find himself tumbling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHustvedt, Siri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSWhitehill, Miry
Summary: Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHIGrey, Mini.
Summary: Cat, Dog, and Mouse live together contentedly in a cottage by the sea, dividing the work between them, until A. Stranger, Esq., a fox from the Winds of Change company, arrives and stirs up trouble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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Summary: Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETJacob, Mira
Summary: "Brain surgeon Thomas Eapen's decision to shorten his visit to his mother's home in India has consequences that reverberate two decades later as he starts conversing with the dead and daughter Amina must sort through the family's past to help him."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETMackinnon, Mairi.
Summary: A magician gives a spectacular final performance after deciding to retire. The fifteenth in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance notes on reading with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2010
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Summary: School becomes quite noisy for a time as the children discover a series of wild animals on the grounds. Eleventh in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2010
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Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIAManojlovic, Predrag Miki
Summary: When two arms dealers find their friendship fading because of a mutual attraction to the same woman, one of them locks the other in an underground bunker for twenty years and convinces him to make weapons for an ongoing war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNDMori, Kyoko.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSummary: A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003