Summary: Based on the classic 1867 novel and play by French writer Émile Zola. The story of a young woman, Thérèse, unhappily married to her first cousin, Camille. She begins a passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. Thérèse and Laurent will go to any lengths to be together, but their actions may haunt them forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV THESummary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: 45,000 years ago, six people searched for a new home in an inhospitable landscape. When night falls, hope turns to fear as they realize they are not alone. Stalked by a terrifying enemy, the group fractures as everyone fights for survival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Chen, Shan Shan
Summary: On her sixth birthday, Mei Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHESummary: "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: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMSummary: With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they are consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VOYChau, 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....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHASummary: Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea. His only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIRSummary: A young couple travels to a secluded island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared an extravagant menu. What they don't know is tonight's clientele have been selected for a specific reason, and they are all involved in the spectacle he intends to perform.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MenuSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: 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: In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VANSummary: In Treatment season three continues to center around Dr. Paul Weston who continues to cope with the after-effects of his recent divorce, as well as his move to Brooklyn to continue his practice. In the midst of new emotional and physical challenges (including hand tremors he fears might be the onset of Parkinson's Disease, which killed his father), Paul will be treating three new patients, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IN RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INHan, Jenny
Summary: Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HANSummary: When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DARSummary: Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReSummary: 13-year-old Mei Lee is torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, and somewhat overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter - an unfortunate reality for Mei. And as if changes to her body, interests, and relationships weren't enough, whenever Mei gets too excited, she "poofs" into a giant red panda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY TURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TURShan, Darren.
Summary: "Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets The Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013