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Jimi. Jin, Ha Jio, Sarah Jio, Sarah. Lee, J.M. Liu, Jae Soo. Mai, Jia Rim, Sujean Sherman, Bim.Summary: Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VANJimi.
Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIASummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOULee, J.M.
Summary: "An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process. The enigmatic Gilmo used to have a quiet life back...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEELiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUSherman, Bim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SHEJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOJin, Ha
Summary: A collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend's parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JINJio, Sarah.
Summary: "Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning--even though it's the second of May--a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Seattle, present day. On...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah.
Summary: In a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched, a heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOMai, Jia
Summary: "One of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breaking In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIRim, Sujean
Summary: Bob the bird keeps trying to fly, but is beginning to worry that he will never succeed when Crow comes by with a suggestion to "just breathe."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMRim, Sujean
Summary: "What do the animals at the zoo do when the gates close at night? They boogie until dawn!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RIMSummary: Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ILORim, Sujean
Summary: "Chee-Kee, a young panda, moves with his parents to a new land of opportunity. Just when he's resigned to never fit in, Chee-Kee finds a way to use his own experience and ingenuity to save the day and show that he's one of a kind in all the best ways"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMJio, Sarah
Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "Set amidst the Seattle music scene of the 90s as well as the present day, Always parallels the past and present in a unique love story about a woman who discovers what she's willing to save and what she will sacrifice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JIOJio, Sarah.
Summary: Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor's fate, but little suspects that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter and The Violets of March comes a gripping, poignant novel about the kind of love that never lets go, and the heart's capacity to remember. While enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with her fiance, Ryan, at one of Seattle's chicest restaurants, Kailey Crane can't believe her good fortune: She has a great job as a writer for the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives from the midwife who delivered her, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday, or face...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "A librarian inherits a bookshop from her estranged mother, leading her halfway across the world on a journey of self-discovery that transcends time and honors the unbreakable bonds of love and family. When librarian Valentina Baker was a teenager, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own. Now in her thirties and fresh out of a failed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "When librarian Valentina Baker was a teenager, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own. Now in her thirties and fresh out of a failed marriage, Val feels a nagging disenchantment with her life - and knows she is still heartbroken over her mother's abandonment. In a bittersweet twist of fate, Val receives word that Eloise has passed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022