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Bird, Pip Jin, Ha Jin, Yong Jio, Sarah Jio, Sarah. Jones, Pip Liu, Jia Mai, Jia Wilson, Kip Xiaojing, JinSummary: This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VINSummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOLiu, Jia
Summary: "When Merlin the owl tries to make a friend, it takes a little more practice than he expected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUMai, Jia
Summary: "One of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breaking In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIJin, Ha
Summary: The story follows the Wu family as they adjust to life in America after severing their ties with China after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Though their future seems secure, things aren't as simple as they appear. As much of the family slowly adjusts to American life, the father, Nan is disillusioned and finds it hard to totally break with his homeland despite his violent disagreement with its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JINXiaojing, Jin
Summary: A child asks different family members about her late grandfather and learns of his characteristics through the features he passed down to his children and grandchildren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE XIABird, Pip
Summary: In Pip Bird and David O'Connell's laugh-out-loud illustrated chapter book Dave the Unicorn: Welcome to Unicorn School, Mira is excited about attending the school--until she's paired with a very un-unicorny unicorn.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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Summary: A collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend's parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JINJio, Sarah.
Summary: "Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning--even though it's the second of May--a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Seattle, present day. On...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah.
Summary: In a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched, a heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter and The Violets of March comes a gripping, poignant novel about the kind of love that never lets go, and the heart's capacity to remember. While enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with her fiance, Ryan, at one of Seattle's chicest restaurants, Kailey Crane can't believe her good fortune: She has a great job as a writer for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives from the midwife who delivered her, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday, or face...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "A librarian inherits a bookshop from her estranged mother, leading her halfway across the world on a journey of self-discovery that transcends time and honors the unbreakable bonds of love and family. When librarian Valentina Baker was a teenager, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own. Now in her thirties and fresh out of a failed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOWilson, Kip
Summary: On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILWilson, Kip
Summary: Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WILJio, Sarah
Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "Set amidst the Seattle music scene of the 90s as well as the present day, Always parallels the past and present in a unique love story about a woman who discovers what she's willing to save and what she will sacrifice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JIOJio, Sarah.
Summary: Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor's fate, but little suspects that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOJin, Ha
Summary: When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary--an astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia--reveals...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JINJin, Yong
Summary: The epic Chinese classic and phenomenon published in the US for the first time! A fantastical generational saga and kung fu epic, A Hero Born is the classic novel of its time, stretching from the Song Empire (China 1200 AD) to the appearance of a warlord whose name will endure for eternity: Genghis Khan. Filled with an extraordinary cast of characters, A Hero Born is a tale of fantasy and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JINBird, Pip
Summary: In the third volume of Pip Bird and David O'Connell's laugh-out-loud illustrated chapter book series, Mira and her unicorn Dave have to face the ultimate challenge: a school dance--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BIRBird, Pip
Summary: An exciting Unicorn School field trip to a farm filled with adorable magic baby animals is challenged by Dave the unicorn's over-the-top appetite, strict classmate adherence to the rules and Mira's obsessive search for a rare caticorn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2021
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BIRJones, Pip
Summary: Izzy Gizmo loves to invent but gets frustrated when her inventions fail to work properly, so when she finds a crow with a broken wing her grandfather urges her to persist until she finds a way to help.--Provided by Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2018