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 EMPContents: Good times (Chic) -- Fire (The Pointer Sisters) -- We are Family (Sister Sledge) -- You're only lonely (J.D. Souther) -- I want you to want me (Cheap Trick) -- Too much Heaven (The Bee Gees) -- Don't bring me down (Electric Light Orchestra) -- Ring my bell (Anita Ward) -- Reunited (Peaches and Herb) -- Bad girls (Donna Summer) -- Do ya think I'm sexy? (Rod Stewart) -- I will survive (Gloria...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SOUSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMContents: Disc one. Rumble (Link Wray) -- Peter Gunn (Duane Eddy) -- Buckeye (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Tequila (the Champs) -- Wild weekend (the Rockin' Rebels) -- Big shot (Johnny Cannon) -- Bongo rock (Preston Epps) -- Teen beat (Sandy Nelson) -- Walk don't run (the Ventures) -- Apache (the Shadows) -- Rebel rouser (Duane Eddy) -- Red river rock (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Moon dawg! (the Gamblers)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BACSummary: 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: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Red Hot Chili Peppers (Musical group)
Contents: Around The World (3:59) -- Parallel Universe (4:29) -- Scar Tissue (3:36) -- Otherside (4:15) -- Get On Top (3:18) -- Californication (5:30) -- Easily (3:51) -- Porcelain (2:44) -- Emit Remmus (4:00) -- I Like Dirt (2:38) -- This Velvet Glove (3:45) -- Savior (4:52) -- Purple Stain (4:13) -- Right On Time (1:53) -- Road Trippin' (3:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1999
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Contents: Want ads (the Honey Cone) -- She's not just another woman (the 8th Day) -- Cool aid (Paul Humphrey & his Cool Aid Chemists) -- Are you my woman? (Tell me so) (the Chi-Lites) -- Treat her like a lady (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) -- Baby let me kiss you (King Floyd) -- Funky Nassau, part 1 (the Beginning of the End) -- Double barrel (Dave & Ansil Collins) -- Bring the boys home (Freda...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SOUChien Chow Chine, Aurélie
Summary: Creative nonfiction picture book about a little unicorn who feels all kinds of emotions, including fear, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down. Teaches children to identify emotions and manage them effectively.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHISummary: A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UP
Benson, Robby
Summary: Explores the friendship between an Orthodox Hasidic Rabbi and the son of a progressive Jewish family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHOChii
Summary: "A diary comic with an upbeat, adorable flair that tells the charming tale of Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs of exploring her sexuality, gender, and transition-as well as falling in love with a man who's head over heels for her. Now, Chii is about to embark on a new adventure: becoming a bride!"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRISummary: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GHOKid Chef Eliana
Summary: Presents eighty recipes organized by season, including such dishes as spinach and asiago strata, eggplant rollatini, chicken piccata, and inside-out apple pie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOOSummary: A contemporary take on the classic series about a new elite federalized task force whose mission is to wipe out the crime that washes up on the Islands' sun-drenched beaches.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wonderwoman, Thief Catcher, and Invisible Girl team up to battle the baby stealing Demon-Lord of the Underworld.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HERSummary: Hawaii's most elite crime-fighting task force is back for the seventh season of the action-packed crime drama. Follow all the hard-hitting adventures of the team that cleans up the dirtiest crimes in paradise.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark 1970s experiment to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. But as Nim's natural instincts take over and the humans trusted with his well-being fail to protect him, Project Nim uncovers the unflinching and extraordinary journey of one animal thrust into human society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PROChau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHASummary: Under the watch of Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett, and Detective Sgt. 'Danno' Williams, the HPD will marshal its forces to whack a mole in the CIA, stop the killing spree of a serial SEAL assassin, and shut down a meth lab tucked away in a B & B discovered by Mary Ann McGarrett.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: McGarrett, Danno and the Five-0 task force continue to wipe out the crime that washes up on the islands' sun-drenched beaches, and this year are joined by new and old friends to help in their mission. Whether dealing with an infamous pyromaniac loose in the jungle, a devious black-hat hacker, stopping the dangerous Yakuza crime syndicate or planning to open a very bro-mantic restaurant, Five-0...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018