Higa, Susumu
Summary: "A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HIGSummary: A heartwarming comedy about coal miners' daughters who took a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape their monotonous lives, only to become unwitting heroes to their depressed mining town. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HULYokota, Susumu
Contents: Saku -- Tobiume -- Uchu tanjyo -- Hagoromo -- Genshi -- Gekkoh -- Hisen -- Azukiiro no kaori -- Kodomotachi -- Naminote -- Shinsen -- Kirakiraboshi.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC YOKShing, Susumu
Summary: Introduces readers to the largest living fish and explains why the whale shark is a gentle giant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597 SHIShingū, Susumu
Summary: Monarch butterfly migration is one of nature’s great mysteries. How do monarchs manage to fly some 2,500 miles from Canada and the northern United States south to Mexico? How do they trace a route they’ve never flown and reach the same destination their ancestors once found? Traveling Butterflies indulges the awe these creatures inspire by taking a poetic, meditative look at the monarch’s life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2015
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Summary: L.A.'s sci-fi priestess is a unique talent. Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the music emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio BlackBlack with her sister Lola; thrown down sinewy bass grooves as a member of the sadly missed Pocahaunted and grown into a key member...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Critical Heights 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIVHilt
Contents: Birdwatcher -- 950 -- Superhoney -- Way out there -- 222 -- El diablo -- Loudmouth canyon -- Home -- 314 -- Sandy feet -- Never gonna fall again -- Walkin on thunder -- Crazy for you -- Real cool rain -- World's goin down -- The ride.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HILHagi
Summary: "A messenger's duty is to care for and protect the god they've been assigned to. In order to complete these tasks, such messengers require wings. Shin, however, can't fly. His tiny, useless wings make him the target of ridicule and scorn among the other messengers and have kept him from being able to serve a god... until now. Determined to prove himself as a capable messenger despite his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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Contents: Terroir -- Houmeissa -- Dounia -- Bororo -- Wassa -- Takamba -- Touareg -- Baoura -- Takamba (remix) -- Yeta yeta.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN HAMHara
Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARContents: (1994-95) Concert Choir: Hallelujah ; Lacrimosa -- Bel Cantos: Father William -- Choral Aires: Maria Magdalene ; Ein Kleiner, hubscher Vogel ; Let me fly (1995-96) Concert Choir: Jubilate deo ; Dirait-on -- Bel Cantos: Psalm 100 ; Under the Greenwood tree ; Hold on -- Men of Note: La virgin lava Panales ; Soon-un will be done -- Vocal Majority: All that hath life and breath, praise ye the Lord...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tonkins Boardman 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL TraEika, Jonas
Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIKViloria, Hida
Summary: "From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILORIA, HIDA VILShiga, Jason.
Summary: "The Beyond takes place in some sort of afterlife. You don't know much when you begin, save that you're dead and that you've ended up in a room that includes a door, a window, and a table with some books. You need to get out, so you try the door. And then the window. And then you finally turn to the books--and when you open them, you're pulled into the worlds of those pages. Could these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIShiga, Jason.
Summary: When his best friend, Sara, moves to New York City, Jimmy works up the courage to travel cross-country by bus to see her and perhaps change their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comic Art 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHISummary: Kill Bill Vol. 1: "Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback-- with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start, but is determined to finish!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KILShiga, Jason
Summary: Overview: Chocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said "Crazy + Genius = Shiga." Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist's lab, where he's given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIShiga, Jason
Summary: A "choose your own story" graphic novel. In a small medieval coastal town, the residents live in fear of a giant sea creature, the Leviathan, who attacks anyone who lies. Your mission: discover the secrets and defeat the creature before it's too late! How you go about it depends on the choices you make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIDiga Rhythm Band
Contents: Sweet sixteen -- Magnificent sevens -- Happiness is drumming -- Razooli -- Tal Mala.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT DIGKhan, Hiba Noor
Summary: Malala Yousafzai is known across the world for having the courage to stand up for what she believes in, even in the face of terrifying adversity. From playing in the Swat Valley in Pakistan to making speeches at the United Nations, Malala's story has become an inspiration for people all over the world who are fighting for justice. Discover what it took for one incredible girl to become the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People YousafzaiSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLLin, Chia-Chia
Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINSummary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRKusuma Sari (Musical group)
Contents: Tabuh petegak (11:17) -- Pemungkah (11:40) -- Gending petangkilan (3:28) -- Gending bendu semara (21:20) -- Batel adeng (7:27) -- Gending meganada (4:59) -- Gending batel (5:39) -- Tabuh penyuwud (2:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CMP Records 1990