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Apter, Bill Ashe Hante Havill, Juanita. Heigl, Katherine Pote Puri, Sunita Unita, Yumi Unita, Yumi. Ōyama, SumitaApte, Sunita.
Summary: A lively discussion about the culture, geography, and history of India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954 APTSummary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JELSummary: The Best Eighties Album contains the defining tracks of the decade features some of the biggest hits from artists including Belinda Carlisle, Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Adam & The Ants, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Bangles, Billy Ocean, James Brown and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONESummary: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BREContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: The story of the American civil rights movement through its music, the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and more, as they fought for justice and equality. Includes new performances of the freedom songs by top artists, archival footage, and interviews with civil rights foot soldiers and leaders. Freedom songs evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SOU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOU
Puri, Sunita
Summary: "A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as a surgeon and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A con woman tries to start her life over on the right track by moving to another state and assuming her deceased friend's identity, until her past threatens to destroy her future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MSummary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BACHavill, Juanita.
Summary: A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1986
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Contents: Under -- Stare -- Lows -- Valley -- Valley II -- Pretty Penny's interlude -- Open up -- Young lies -- Good2U -- Plastic prayers -- Together.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC POTUnita, Yumi
Summary: "As an impromptu dad to Rin, his late grandfather's illegitimate child, Daikichi Kawachi has experienced his share of firsts while caring for his little aunt (?). Now it's Daikichi's turn to battle the initial wave of separation anxiety as Rin leaves the nest-- for her first day of elementary school! Rin's elementary school isn't the only place with new faces, either. Daikichi's office is also...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNSummary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMAŌyama, Sumita
Summary: "Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his 'free-verse' haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals--compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TANEDA, SANTOKA OYAHeigl, Katherine
Summary: Unemployed Stephanie Plum lands a job as a bounty hunter where her first assignment is to track down an ex-boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONEUnita, Yumi
Summary: Returning to his family's estate for his grandfather's funeral, thirty-something bachelor Daikichi is floored to discover that the old man had an illegitimate child with a much younger lover! Needless to say, the rest of the family is shocked and embarrassed by this turn of events, and not one of them wants anything to do with the little girl, who refuses to say a word. In a fit of angry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNUnita, Yumi
Summary: "As Daikichi continues to juggle work with raising a teenager, Rin struggles with the relationship between her and Kouki, her childhood friend. The last ten years have brought about a variety of changes to their friendship-- some subtle, some not so. Kouki may always have been head over heels for Rin, but the choices he's made in the past seem to have put a wedge between them. And when a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNUnita, Yumi.
Summary: "Like a plot out of a soap opera, bachelor Daikichi Kawachi's boringly normal life got a touch of the abnormal when he learned that his late granddad left behind a love child. And further rattling the unexpected skeleton in the closet? The ungainly, unglamorous Daikichi's impulsive decision to take in little Rin! But as the impromptu dad and his charge learn to adapt to both one another and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNSummary: Considered the most realistic cop drama ever aired, Homicide: life on the street gives viewers a unique cops'-eye view of one of the most challenging jobs imaginable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMUnita, Yumi
Summary: As Rin experiences the ups and downs of being a teenager, she begins to ponder what it means to be family. In her exploration of that question, she takes it upon herself to track down Masako, her birth mother. Masako, now engaged and pregnant, is about to start a new family of her own. But with Masako's feelings of guilt over her treatment of Rin, she can't bring herself to tell Daikichi of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNApter, Bill
Summary: Complete with exclusive photographs and sensational backstage stories, Is Wrestling Fixed? is the much anticipated memoir from the biggest legend in wrestling fandom himself, Bill Apter As a kid growing up in New York in the late '50s, Bill Apter fell in love with professional wrestling, and it wasn't long before he was rubbing shoulders with the greats as a young reporter and photographer....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2015
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Contents: Tomorrow is a new day -- Wild animal -- Unknown (feat. Solveig Matthildur) -- Serre-moi encore -- Nobody's watching (feat. Marble Slave & Fragrance) -- Waiting for a hurricane -- Respect -- No tenderness -- Silence the voices -- The moon song -- Never over -- I don't need a hero -- Wild animal
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Records 2019