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SONY Pictures classicsSummary: Jordan is a take-no-prisoners mogul who torments her long-suffering assistant and employees daily. She soon faces an unexpected threat to her personal life and career when she magically transforms into a thirteen-year-old version of herself after the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LITSummary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PaintedSummary: "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: Everybody wants to be a cat (Jamie Cullum) (2:57) -- He's a tramp (Melody Gardot) (3:42) -- Bibbidi bobbidi boo (French version) (Stacey Kent) (3:12) -- When you wish upon a star (Gregory Porter) (3:50) -- Why don't you do right (China Moses) (5:03) -- I wanna be like you (Raphael Gualazzi) (3:53) -- A dream is a wish your heart makes (The Rob Mounsey Orchestra) (4:17) -- You've got a friend in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZSummary: With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOCIE REDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN REDMiéville, China.
Summary: London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIESummary: Nine years after giving up his superhero alter-ego, Jefferson Pierce is just your average, everyday high school principal. But the electricity-controlling crimefighter must reluctantly come out of retirement to protect his community from a dangerous gang known as the 100.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: Scott & Bailey is a thrilling investigative drama series exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Janet Scott and Rachael Bailey are two detectives from the Major Incident Team of the Manchester Metropolitan Police Department. Despite their differences, impulsive, funny and single Rachel and reflective, married mother-of-two Janet, have a great partnership. Thrown...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SCOMieville, China.
Summary: Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Miéville, China.
Summary: "After his mother goes missing, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged father. When an odd man knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over. But will this stranger at last trigger the doom the boy has feared or will he somehow save the boy from the worst?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEMieville, China.
Summary: Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEMiéville, China.
Summary: When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlu must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey Ballantine Books 2010
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Summary: On board the moletrain Medes , Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death and the other's glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea--even if his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Miéville, China.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 ASSMiéville, China
Summary: In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEMiéville, China.
Summary: Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEMiéville, China.
Summary: En route to the colony of New Crobuzon, a seafaring group of prisoners and slaves is joined by refugees, and when the ship is besieged by pirates, the passengers are brought to a floating city of pirated ships whose leaders harbor a sinister agenda.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEWilliams, China.
Summary: Describes points of interest and itineraries for each region of Thailand, and recommends hotels, restaurants, and entertainment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 915.93 WILGordon, Nina
Contents: Now I can die -- 2003 -- Tonight and the rest of my life -- Badway -- Horses in the city -- Hold on to me -- New Year's Eve -- Fade to black -- Number one camera -- Got me down -- Too slow to ride -- Hate your way -- The end of the world.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GORSummary: Examines the various factors that make Earth suitable for life, including its size, weather system, distance from the sun, and other natural factors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PeCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PERSummary: Jefferson Pierce, respected educator and father of two, is also Black Lightning, superpowered protector of Freeland. And he doesn't fight alone. He is joined by his superpowered daughters, Anissa, aka Thunder, and Jennifer, aka Lightning, as well as his ex-wife, metahuman expert Lynn. Together, the Pierce family combats the ills eroding their city, including a menacing gang that calls itself...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: An orphan boy is raised to seek vengeance on the clan leaders who murdered his parents. He takes lessons from an old Shaolin monk who is embedded in a boulder and sets out to find the killers. But before he can deliver justice, he must unite rival factions to fight a far greater evil plaguing the land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Beverly Wilshire Filmsworks Inc. 2000