Chu, Lenora
Summary: China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system is held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence. Chu, an American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. Enrolling three-year-old Rainer in China's state-run public school system, the immediate results were positive. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 370.951 CHUPearson, Debora.
Summary: Follow these load 'em up trucks as they perform their daily jobs. Watch and talk about them as they tow cars, move bricks or load up with boxes of toys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PEAChu, Amy
Summary: "In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she "poofs" into a giant red panda!"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Contents: Perfume do invisivel -- Arrastarte-ei -- Amor pixelado? -- Varanda suspensa -- Etilica (Interludio) -- A menina e o monstro -- Minhas bics -- Chico buarque song -- Sangria -- Camadas -- A nave vai? -- Rapsodia Brasilis.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CEUSummary: In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVCéu.
Contents: Sobre o amor e seu trabalho silencioso -- Cangote (feat. Gigante Brazil) -- Comadi -- Bubuia (feat. Negresko Sis) -- Nascente -- Grains de beaut -̌- Vira lata (feat. Luiz Melodia) -- Papa -- Ponteiro -- Cordô da insn̥ia -- Rosa menina rosa (feat. Los Sebozos Postizos) -- Sonm̂bulo -- Espaȯnave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Urban Jungle Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CEUSummary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOCéU.
Contents: Falta de ar -- Amor de antigos -- Asfalto e sol -- Retrovisor -- Teju na estrada -- Contravento -- Palhaço -- You won't regret it -- Sereia -- Baile de ilusão -- Fffree -- Streets bloom -- Chegar em mim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees/Urban Jungle 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CEUSummary: In season two of the Finnish Nordic Noir hit, chief investigator Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crimes Unit deals with a variety of harrowing homicides on the border between Finland and Russia. Each of these murder cases takes the viewer on a journey into humanity's dark underbelly, in which no one will be able to escape their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV BORTodaro, Lenora
Summary: "What would happen if people all around the world stayed inside, away from animals' habitats? Twelve fascinating real-life stories of creatures around the globe who reclaimed their habitat during the COVID-19 quarantine show animal lovers and aspiring citizen scientists how to help wildlife by fighting habitat loss"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: minedition 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.7 TODSummary: Chief investigator Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crimes Unit has grave concerns about the future of his family, while pursuing a murderer who seems to have been studying his previous cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV BORChu, Kaitlyn
Summary: "We're all having to get used to wearing face masks in our daily lives. Let's see how our favorite animals wear their masks and still have fun!" -- page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaitlyn Chu 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E ChuSummary: An intelligent fifteen-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoChu, Wesley
Summary: "Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUContents: Areia de Salamansa (Cesaria Evora) -- Nos morna (Ildo Lobo) -- Preto é mi (Tito Paris) -- Choros (Boy Gé Mendes) -- Sonho d'um criol (Fantcha) -- Jailza (Bau) -- D'Zemcontre (Marie Alice) -- Raiz (Simentera) -- Stancia (Mindel Band) -- Bengosin (Katchupa Rica) -- Diogo nos raça (Mobafuco) -- Tonte vontande (Téofilo Chantre) -- Anildo Morais (Luis Morais) -- Nha confisão (Celina Pereira) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN SPIChu, Amy
Summary: School's out and Trot and Cap'n Bill are looking forward to a carefree summer of surfing. But trouble surfaces when Grandpa hooks a message in a bottle while fishing. Clia, the Sea Siren princess, and Anko, King of the Sea Serpents, need their help: Merla, their Sea Siren friend, has been kidnapped! Trot, her cat, and her grandfather join the rescue effort which takes them to an old abandoned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHUChu, Jeff.
Summary: A writer for Time magazine, after coming out to his parents as a gay man, documents his personal journey, from Brooklyn to California, to discover the God forbidden to him because of his sexuality and understand what the diverse followers of Christ believe about homosexuality. An intellectual, emotional, and spiritual pilgrimage that reveals a nation in crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8357 CHUSummary: The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PATObel, Agnes
Contents: The evil theme (Henry Mancini) -- Moonbird (Roger Webb) -- Eden's Island (Eden Ahbez) -- The night's (Lee Hazelwood) -- Ay ay ay ay (Angle-lala) (Nora Dean) -- Great mission (Yello) -- Aleluia (Tamba Trio, Quarteto em Cy) -- Bloody shadows from a distance (Lena Platonos) -- I go to sleep (Ray Davies) -- Piano quintet, V (Alfred Schnittke) -- Stretch your eyes (Ambient Acapella) (Agnes Obel) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Late Night Tales 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OBEChu, Amy
Summary: "Trot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap'n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle rages"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC CHULook, Lenore.
Summary: When second-grader Alvin Ho is invited to a birthday party given by a girl, his fear of everything causes him to dread going.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOOSankoff, Irene
Summary: "Come from away tells the true story of 38 planes and almost 7,000 passengers from around the world that were diverted to the small community of Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, doubling its population in an instant"--Insert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho goes on a trip to China with his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014