King, Terrence

Summary: What does it mean to be a rebel, a hero, or the destroyer of habitat and civilization? As a devastated world recovers from war and plight, an unlikely heroine emerges and attempts to rescue distressed rebels from the government’s corruption controlling the rationed food supply and from a rogue general trying to steal the only known honeybees. And Earth itself fights back. Following the Great...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terrence King 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Summary: 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 WU

Summary: 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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIN

Summary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLI

Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IP

Kina.

Contents: Girl from the gutter -- I love you -- Have a cry -- Stop -- Give and take -- Me -- U don't know -- Loser -- Hurt so bad -- Insanity -- Still here.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks 2000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KINA

Summary: "Betty Bronson stars as Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up, who charms Wendy and her brothers to fly with him to Never Never Land. On this island of dreams and magic, they struggle to rescue the Lost Boys from Captain Hook and his band of pirates, encountering along the way the delightful fairy Tinkerbell, a man-eating crocodile, and a band of valiant Indians"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1999

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PET

Kink.

Contents: Soar -- Yom Thorke -- Russian -- Samodiva -- Suncatcher -- Perth -- Teo Techno -- Peter Plet Plete -- Organ -- Taste of Metal -- Five -- The Universe In Her Eyes.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Running Back Records 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC KIN

Summary: Ever since Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was a little girl, the English have wanted her country and her crown. As a teenager, Mary is sent to France to wed its next king to save herself and her people. Waiting at the French Court is the gorgeous Prince Francis, his illegitimate half-brother Sebastian, a king on the brink of madness, a scheming queen, and the seer Nostradamus with a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD REI RATED PG-13

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV REI

Summary: 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 ASS

Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus, thus starting a boycott of the city buses. This single act is considered the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOY

Summary: A musical interpretation of the legend of King Arthur.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CAM
1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS CAM

Summary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMP

Summary: A young couple find themselves stranded in the rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, where they encounter a mysterious religious sect of children. But nowhere in town are there any adults. The horror grows to a blood-curdling climax as the two new visitors learn the horrifying secret behind the prospering corn fields.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CHI

White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury)

Summary: Wart is ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlin until he pulls the sword from the stone that declares him rightful king of England.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1993

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHI

Hong, Ying

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HONG, YING HON

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEV

Jing Ying Soloists

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1981

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN LIK

Summary: A reimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KON

Summary: Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAY RATED PG-13

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAY

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ray 2005

Summary: Kong, Skull Island: When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KON

Hong, Ying

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.1352 HON

Summary: In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA LAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS