Summary: The city of London is preparing for Christmas. Two nine-year-old boys, Tom and Thomas are unaware of each other's existence, yet they have always somehow sensed that the other is there. Tom runs away from the Boys Home where he was brought up. Child smugglers come after him, but he manages to escape. He goes into the Science Museum where he meets Thomas visiting the place with his father. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Tom 2009Xu, Ray
Summary: Kevin Lee is having a really bad week. Although he lives in a crowded Toronto apartment above the family’s alterations and dry-cleaning store, he mostly goes unnoticed. School isn’t exactly an oasis either—being one of the few Asian kids makes for some unwelcome attention. But when Kevin’s class plans a trip to Thrill Planet, a spectacular theme park, will he finally have a chance to turn his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 XUCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Blue arrives in the capital city of Altalus, where she is determined to find her friend Crow, the boy who was created to be a flying war machine, and Jack, the engineer who built him. But soon she is inadvertently kidnapped by Snow and Red, twins from the enemy side of their ten-year war. They set off on a dangerous adventure that brings them to the front lines of the war, and eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2019
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Summary: "Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books / HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 XUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC XUXu, Ruiyan.
Summary: Injured by a gas explosion that renders him incapable of speaking Chinese, Shanghai businessman Li Jing struggles to communicate using faltering English phrases learned during his childhood years in Virginia and finds his marriage strained by a growing bond with an American neurologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC XUXu, Wendy
Summary: Sophie is a young witch whose mother and grandmother pressure her to attend the Royal Magic Academy--the best magic school in the realm--even though her magic is shaky at best. To train for her entrance exams, Sophie is sent to relatives she's never met. Cousin Sage and Great-Aunt Lan seem more interested in giving Sophie chores than in teaching her magic. Frustrated, Sophie attempts magic on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 XUSummary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERSummary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EIGErickson, Carolly
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERISummary: Soul Mate traces the relationship between two best friends (Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun) and the eventual collapse of their friendship when a boy comes between them. Anchored by two of the most promising young actresses of their generation, Soul Mate is an evocative drama that dissects young love with style and verve. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOUKonietzko, Bryan
Summary: "Join Korra, Asami, Mako, Bolin, Tenzin, and more familiar faces from The Legend of Korra, featured in stories specially crafted by a bevy of talented comics creators!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: When a teenage boy with extraordinary abilities appears out of nowhere near Seattle, Washington, a kindhearted social worker and her family are the only people to offer him a home. The young man's capabilities and brilliance seem to grow stronger each day, but these talents are just one clue to the mystery of the boy they call Kyle, and the questions are starting to grow: Where did he come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KYLSummary: A return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, he believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie MadSummary: A young FBI agent, Johnny Utah, infiltrates a cunning team of thrill-seeking elite athletes, led by the charismatic Bodhi. The athletes are suspected of carrying out a spate of crimes in extremely unusual ways. Deep undercover, and with his life in imminent danger, Utah strives to prove they are the architects of this string of inconceivable crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POIGregory, Philippa
Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRESummary: The adventures continue for tech genius Hiro Hamada and his healthcare companion, the lovable, inflatable Baymax. Picking up right before the end of the film, Hiro thinks Baymax is lost forever, until he finds the chip Tadashi designed to create Baymax. Hiro immediately gets to work rebuilding Baymax, but Hiro's overconfidence and impatience gets him into trouble. The stakes are raised for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BIGSummary: Curious George rides a bike. The man in the yellow hat gives Curious George a brand new bicycle. What adventures are ahead for this little monkey and his new bike? The great white man-eating shark : a cautionary tale. Norvin, a boy who closely resembles a shark, uses his talents to scare away all the swimmers at Caramel Cove-- except for one female shark in love! Flossie and the fox. Flossie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CURBelle, Kimberly
Summary: When Charlotte married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her trailer-park past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BELHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved her dreams--a bookstore on Cape Cod, a happy single life--when the son she put up for adoption seventeen years ago gives her a surprise visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HIGSummary: A poet imagines scenarios in a wax museum fairground that involve Jack the Ripper, Ivan the Terrible, and Haroun al-Raschid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FANTASY WAXSummary: One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui's shattering look at the circumstances that drove Vietnamese refugees to flee their homeland in the wake of the Vietnam War is told through images of haunting, unforgettable power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BOASummary: Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. When she arrives at Versailles, she must obey the numerous and complex rules of the French court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022