Summary: Lucio Castro offers both a sun-soaked European travelogue and an epic, decades-spanning romance. When Ocho, a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi, a Spaniard from Berlin, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely beautiful strangers in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ENDSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: 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 NINVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: "A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: A mother, a boy and a dog against the night. Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his 11 years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Koontz 2020Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction KooZimmerman, Jean.
Summary: Allegedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada and adopted by a wealthy Manhattan couple, eighteen-year-old Bronwyn explosively enters Gilded Age high society and is implicated in the deaths of several suitors while her devoted brother resolves to take the fall for her.
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 ZIMSummary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrContents: Strip it down (Luke Bryan) -- Take your time (Sam Hunt) -- Smoke break (Carrie Underwood) -- Burning house (Cam) -- Girl crush (Little Big Town) -- I'm comin' over (Chris Young) -- Save it for a rainy day (Kenny Chesney) -- Country nation (Brad Paisley) -- Drunk on a plane (Dierks Bentley) -- Backroad song (Granger Smith) -- Buy me a boat (Chris Janson) -- Girl in a country song (Maddie & Tae)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY NOWKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Travis Cornell had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind's darkest creation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOEdan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EDAJlin
Contents: Black ballet -- Unknown tongues -- Guantanamo -- Erotic heat -- Black diamond -- Mansa musa -- Infrared (Bagua) -- Ra -- Expand -- So high -- Abnormal restriction.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC JLIJlin
Contents: First overture (Spiritual atom) -- Annotation -- Carbon 12 -- Unorthodox elements -- Anamnesis (part 1) -- The abyss of doubt -- Mutation -- First interlude (Absence of measure) -- Permutation -- Kundalini -- Anamnesis (part 2) -- Blue i -- Second interlude (The choosing).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Planet Mu Records, Ltd. 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC JLIJapan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JAPBarberich, Christene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2003
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 749.8 BARBallerini, Kelsea
Contents: Graveyard -- Miss me more -- Get over yourself -- Roses -- Machine heart -- In between -- High school -- End of the world -- I hate love songs -- Unapologetically -- Music -- Legends -- Fun and games -- I think I fell in love today -- Landslide (live from Nashville) -- This feeling.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BalCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BALBallerini, Kelsea
Summary: The latest album from Kelsea Ballerini takes some sonic inspiration from the pop and country music of the 1990s. It also includes the tracks Heartfirst; Love is a Cowboy; and The Little Things.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BALBarbarisi, Daniel
Summary: "A full-throttle, first-person account of the treasure hunt set in motion by Forest Fenn--an eccentric art dealer and, some would say, robber baron--in 2010 that lasted a full decade and became the stuff of contemporary legend. When Forest Fenn was told he was going to die, he hid a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness and published a poem that contained a series of clues about the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.1 BARBallerini, Kelsea
Summary: An introspective look into the emotions of the last two years of Kelsea Ballerini's life. Using songwriting as therapy, she explores everything from social anxiety to the importance of real friendships, and a new perspective on old heartbreaks.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KELBarry, Quan
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upons Sticks-a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as a pair of estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama somewhere in the vast Mongolian landscape, the young monk Chuluun seeks the help of his identical twin, Mun, who was recognized as a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMa, Jian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGoldie, Luan
Summary: "On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years. Tristan wishes Malachi...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLKross, Jaan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KROMa, Jian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001