Lang, Ryan
Summary: "In a feudal Japan where creatures of myth and folklore are real, a demon sets out to reforge an ancient weapon to take over the world. The only person who can stop him is a six-inch-tall would-be samurai, who also happens to be the final and most important piece of the weapon"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LANSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: 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: "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 BLIYan, Lan
Summary: "In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family's story, she serves up an intimate account of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANSummary: 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 NINSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Wu-Tang Clan (Musical group)
Contents: Bring on da ruckus (4:10) -- Shame on a nigga (2:57) -- Clan in da front (4:33) -- Wu-Tang: 7th chamber (6:05) -- Can it be all so simple (6:53) -- Da mystery of chessboxin' (4:48) -- Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthing ta f' wit (3:36) -- C.R.E.A.M. (4:12) -- Method Man (5:50) -- Protect ya neck (4:52) -- Tearz (4:17) -- Wu-Tang: 7th chamber (part II) (6:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WUTWu-Tang Clan (Musical group)
Contents: Wu-Tang The Saga Continues Intro (feat. RZA) -- Lesson Learn'd (feat. Inspectah Deck and Redman) -- Fast and Furious (feat. Hue Hef and Raekwon) -- Famous Fighters (Skit) -- If Time Is Money (Fly Navigation) (feat. Method Man) -- Frozen (feat. Method Man, Killa Priest and Chris Rivers) -- Berto and the Fiend (Skit) (feat. Ghostface Killa) -- Pearl Harbor (feat. Ghostface Killah, Method Man, RZA...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WUMastai, Elan
Summary: "There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASWu-Tang Clan (Musical group)
Contents: Shame on a nuh (2:56) -- Clan in the front (2:56) -- Can it be all so simple (4:21) -- Method man (4:11) -- Da mystery of chessboxin' (4:40) -- Wu-Tang Clan ain't (3:36) -- C.R.E.A.M. (4:07) -- Protect ya neck (4:37) -- Tearz (4:51) -- Conclusion.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WUTWu-Tang Clan (Musical group)
Contents: In the hood -- Rules -- Chrome wheels -- Soul power (Black jungle) (featuring Flavor Flav) -- UZI (Pinky ring) -- One of these days -- Ya'll been warned -- Babies -- Radioactive (Four assassins) -- Back in the game (featuring Ron Isley) -- Iron flag -- Dashing (Reasons).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Loud Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WU-TLee, Elan
Summary: It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the games; unless that player has a Defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move,...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Games, Call number: YA Game Exploding KittensWu-Tang Clan (Musical group)
Contents: Intro (Shaolin finger jab) -- Chamber music -- Careful (click, click) -- Hollow bones -- Redbull (featuring Redman) -- One blood under W (featuring Junior Reid) -- Conditioner (featuring Snoop Dogg) -- Protect ya neck (The jump off) -- Let my n****s live (featuring Nas) -- I can't go to sleep (featuring Isaac Hayes) -- Do you really (thang, thang) -- The monument (featuring Busta Rhymes) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Loud 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WUWu-Tang Clan (Musical group)
Contents: Wu-revolution (featuring Poppa Wu and Uncle Pete) -- Reunited -- For Heaven's sake (featuring CappaDonna) -- Cash still rules ; Scary hours (still don't nothing move but the money) -- Visionz -- As high as Wu-Tang get -- Severe punishment -- Older gods -- Maria (featuring CappaDonna) -- A better tomorrow -- It's yourz -- Intro -- Triumph (featuring CappaDonna) -- Impossible (featuring Tekitha)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Loud Records 1997