Summary: "The Basics of Billiards is an easy to watch, easy to learn, self help video intended for newcomers interested in learning the rules, regulations, techniques, and terminologies of the game of pool. Targeted towards novices and amateurs interested in picking up pool as a new activity, viewers are educated on simply the basics of the sport. Viewers lean along with our on camera beginning pool...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Line Studios 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.73 BASSummary: 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 HERHuang, Al Chung-liang.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 HUACompestine, Ying Chang.
Summary: When a crew of Chinese fishermen forget to bring cooking utensils with them, they find creative ways to make do with what they have and what they can find.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COMSummary: "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 EMPSummary: "When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what if...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY JOY1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: "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.Summary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Florence Nightingale is an aristocratic woman who defied Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and was faced with great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family FlorenceSummary: An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh start.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SECSummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPPhung, Nguyen Quang
Summary: "This is no ordinary first journey. The rainy season has come to the Mekong Delta, and An, a young Vietnamese boy, sets out alone in a wooden boat wearing a little backpack and armed only with a single oar. On the way, he is confronted by giant crested waves, heavy rainfall and eerie forests where fear takes hold of him. Although daunted by the dark unknown, An realizes that he is not alone and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Phung 2021Contents: Disc 1: Being with you / Smokey Robinson. -- Get closer / Seals and Crofts. -- There'll be sad songs (to make you cry) / Billy Ocean. -- Precious and few / Climax. -- Joanna / Kool and the Gang. -- Lost in love / Air Supply. -- You don't have to be a star (to be in my show) / Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. -- I get weak / Belinda Carlisle. -- Crazy love / Poco. -- Hey there lonely girl /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BODPhung, Nguyen Quang
Summary: "A . . . picture book about a family's connection to their land, their home, and each other . . . Long ago, Grandfather came to a new land. Fish swam in the water, birds chirped in the sky, monkeys played in the trees. And in this wilderness, with his own two hands, Grandfather built a house.It wasn't easy. But the land gave him what he needed. And it became his home. Decades later, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHUSummary: When a quintet of nasty ninjas, hell-bent on world domination, nearly massacres an entire clan, its lone survivor must take the path of revenge. He meets up with an old master well-versed in the ways of the ninja. Now armed with secret knowledge and newfound friends, he must battle the awesome power of the Five Element Ninjas (gold, wood, fire, water, earth).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Celestial Pictures 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FIVSummary: Hunt follows two agents in Korean Central Intelligence tasked with hunting a North Korean spy embedded within their agency. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, they slowly start to uncover an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president. -- provided by publisher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HUNChingy
Contents: Intro (Rid'in Wit Me) (1:46) -- Hands Up (4:39) -- Club Gettin' Crowded (4:35) -- Nike Aurr's & Crispy Tee's (3:47) -- Bounce That (3:53) -- Cadillac Door (3:40) -- Dem Jeans (3:51) -- Pullin' Me Back (3:57) -- U A Freak (Nasty Girl) (4:10) -- Brand New Kicks (4:31) -- A$$ N Da Aurr (4:05) -- Let Me Luv U (4:55) -- Let's Ride (3:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2006
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Chingy
Contents: Jackpot Intro (0:22) -- He's Herre (3:02) -- Represent (4:12) -- Right Thurr (3:34) -- Wurrs My Cash (4:33) -- Chingy Jackpot (4:08) -- Sample Dat Ass (5:05) -- One Call Away (4:42) -- Gettin' It (4:27) -- Holidae In (5:13) -- Juice (4:44) -- Madd @ Me (3:53) -- Bagg Up (3:21) -- Right Thurr (3:43).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2003
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Chingy
Contents: The haters -- Iced out (feat. 8Ball) -- Thurr dey go -- Ya hear me -- Git it boy -- All I know -- Drop a dime -- Feelin like a million -- Anythang (feat. Lil Flip) -- Money brought me back -- Diamonds -- Set it out -- Take me -- How it goes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real Talk Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP CHIChance.
Contents: High test (5:25) -- Love by chance (4:09) -- Sunn of Gunn (5:05) -- Just your way of telling me (3:45) -- Blue Monday (3:15) -- Don't cry wolf (3:39) -- Mr. Freedom Man (5:29) -- Angel (3:22) -- Dead medley (5:01) -- Loser till you win (3:34) -- Dusty roads of yesterday (2:57) -- Too high to land (3:22) -- Drema (4:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise of Bachelors 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CHAStephani, Julie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2001