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Brahms, Johannes Cheech & Chong Chong, Kevin Chong, Vivian King, Tom Prong Various ArtistsChong, Vivian
Summary: "In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHOVarious Artists
Contents: My band / D12 -- Hey ya! / Outkast -- Naughty girl / Beyonc'e -- Move ya body / Nina Sky (featuring Jabba) -- Dip it low / Christina Milian -- Hey mama / Black Eyed Peas -- Dude / Beenie Man (featuring Ms. Thing) -- Freek-a-leek / Petey Pablo -- Slow motion / Juvenile (featuring Soulja Slim) -- Leave (Get out) / Jojo -- One call away / Chingy (featuring J/Weav) -- Everytime / Britney Spears --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: UMG Recordings 2004
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: 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: Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SNOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SNOBrahms, Johannes
Contents: Concerto in A minor for violin & cello / Johannes Brahms (32:46) -- Piano concerto no. 3 in C minor / Ludwig van Beethoven (37:58) -- Tout un monde lointain. 2nd mvt (excerpt) / Dutilleux (Renaud Capuc̦on, violin ; Truls Mørk, cello ; Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra ; Myun-Whun Chung, conductor) (1:55) -- String quartet in D, op. 64/5 : Lark. 1st mvt (excerpt) / Haydn (Mosaïques Quartet)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BRASummary: From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KINSummary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILSummary: 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 MOUSummary: When the British government is discovered smuggling precious Chinese artifacts out of the country, folklore hero Wong Fei Hong uses his uniquely outlandish style of martial arts...Drunken Boxing...to fight the conspirators and salvage the valuables before it's too late! And the more Hong drinks, the more agile he becomes -- able to fend off numerous attacks with unbelievable moves! With Chinese...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LEGSummary: 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 TURSummary: Through an elderly and old-fashioned grandmother, a spoiled seven-year-old boy learns to accept and understand the simple pleasures of nature and her lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAYSummary: Hunt follows two agents in Korean Central Intelligence tasked with hunting a North Korean spy embedded within their agency. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, they slowly start to uncover an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president. -- provided by publisher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HUNCheech & Chong
Contents: The Finklestein shit kid (Mr. Stoner) -- Up in smoke (Cheech & Chong) -- Low rider (War) -- 1st gear, 2nd gear (Pedro and Man) -- Framed (Cheech & Chong) -- Searchin' (Search Boys) -- The Ajax lady (Man and the Ajax lady) -- Strawberries (Yesca) -- Here come the Mounties to the rescue (Yesca) -- Sometimes when you gotta go, you can't (Pedro & Sgt. Stedenko) -- Lost due to incompetence (Theme...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1978
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC UPProng
Contents: Controller --Caprice -- Rude awakening -- Unfortunately -- Face value -- Avenue of the finest -- Slicing -- Without hope -- Mansruin -- Innocence gone -- Dark signs -- Close the door -- Proud division.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PROKing, Tom
Summary: "The Caped Crusader has never been stopped. Not by the Joker. Not by Two-Face. Not even by the entire Justice League. But now,...Batman must face his most challenging foe ever--a hero who wants to save Gotham...from the Batman!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATChong, Kevin
Summary: In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he's a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon, an unlikely bond forms between...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: JT CD Fiction ChongSummary: "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 INFCheech & Chong
Contents: Sister Mary Elephant (3:36) -- Ralph and Herbie (3:23) -- Streets of New York or Los Angeles or San Francisco or-- (2:30) -- Rebuttal: Speaker Ashley Roachclip (1:53) -- The continuing adventures of Pedro de Pacas and man (6:33) -- The bust (2:00) -- Television medley: Tortured old man (3:00) ; Empire Hancock (1:08) ; Let's make a dope deal (3:53) ; Unamerican bandstand (6:05).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CHECheech & Chong
Contents: Sargent Stadanko (6:31) -- Peter Rooter (:20) -- Up his nose (3:25) -- Pedro and man at the drive-inn (12:44) -- The strawberry revival festival (3:24) -- Don't bug me (1:27) -- Evelyn Woodhead speed reading course (:36) -- Les morpions (5:55) -- Cheborneck (1:12) -- White world of sports (3:02) -- Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces (4:04).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CHESummary: In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: After years as a political prisoner in a labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution, Lu returns to his devoted wife Feng, only to discover she has amnesia and is unable to recognize him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: 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: 2017