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Adefris, Fasika Aliki Aliki. Denise, Anika Kroll, Amika Munsch, Robert N. Rissi, Anica Mrose Scott, AnikaSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: "Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms - humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chi abandoned in the trash, she's cuter than any current model he's ever seen, but when he gets her home and turns her on, she has no data and only a single learning program installed. While Hideki puts his whole heart into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2011
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CHOSummary: In Ozu's first color film, a stubborn businessman, who disapproves of his daughter's fiance, must learn to embrace modern romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EQUSummary: Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARSummary: "The Heroic Trio and its sequel, Executioners, follow a new kind of justice league: a team of blade-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung fu-fighting heroines who join forces to battle evildoers in a dystopian, noirish city"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLSummary: Due to the closure of their middle school, four students from the sea must attend middle school on land, despite the growing tensions between the Sea Village and their neighbors on land. While getting used to their new lives, these four, along with their new friend from school, plan to put on an Ofunehiki, a festival traditionally organized by the leaders of the two villages, in an attempt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Crouching 2000Rissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNSummary: A collection of 13 horror stories all written by queer authors of color and each told through the lens of a teenager of color about the Halloween night that changed their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIGAdefris, Fasika
Summary: Follows how a Gabi is made in Ethiopia from seed to harvest, to weaving to shop, to gift for Girma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Scott, Anika
Summary: "For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run from British authorities, who discovers dark secrets about her family's past in post-World War II Germany"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Scott 2020Summary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANAliki
Summary: Charles's habit of getting lost in his thoughts rather than doing what he should continually gets him in trouble at home and in school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Aliki 2018Denise, Anika
Summary: Stumbling on the same mysterious love letter in turn, best friends Hedgehog, Bunny, and Squirrel are reminded of the joys of friendship following a silly mix-up about their secret admirer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DENKroll, Amika
Summary: Girls growing up into women should feel good about who they are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD KROAliki.
Summary: A child shows all the things he has learned to do all on his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Aliki.
Summary: Miss Brilliant's class puts on a performance of "Mary had a little lamb."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Ficiton AlikiAliki.
Summary: A little boy who loves pushing buttons of all kinds ends up with such a sore finger that he must play with other things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Toddler AlikiAliki.
Summary: When Robert's best friend Peter moves away, both are unhappy, but they learn that they can make new friends and still remain best friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1982
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Summary: A young crocodile swallows everything from a can of baby powder to his father's hat until the day he helps his mother tidy up the house with the vacuum cleaner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1966