Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HULMiyabe, Miyuki
Summary: Sugimura Saburo of the Imata Concern Public Relations Office is consulted by the daughters of the company's driver, Nobuo Kajita, who died in an accident. Inspired by their desire to write a book about their late father, a surprising scene begins to spread in front of Saburo, who has begun to follow the seemingly ordinary life of Kajita. A heart-throbbing mystery carefully spun by a rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bungei Shunjū 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC MIYSummary: The inhabitants of a small Japanese seaside town come under the influence of a strange force that causes an obsession with spiral forms. One by one, the townspeople fall under its spell until they begin descending on a self-inflicted spiral of terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN UZUMiyabe, Miyuki
Summary: With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy named Wataru knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny. With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. One way or another, the young hero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIYSummary: Magnetic Rose: Two space travellers follow a distress signal and are drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. Stink bomb: A young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Cannon fodder: Depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD ANIME MEMSummary: Shy Norimichi and fast-talking Yusuke are goo-goo-eyed over the same elusive classmate, Nazuna. But Nazuna, unhappy over her mother's decision to remarry and leave their countryside town, plans to run away and has secretly chosen Norimichi to accompany her. When things don't go as planned, Norimichi discovers that a glowing multicolored ball found in the sea has the power to reset the clock and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After waking up in a strange new world surrounded by people who can't remember who they are or where they came from, Haruhiro finds himself drafted into the service of the Volunteer Soldiers. Together with a ragtag party he must set out to make a name for himself in a world where magic and monsters are a part of everyday life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GRISummary: Inari is a sweet and shy middle school girl with a HUGE crush on Tanbabashi, one of the cutest guys in her grade. But she’s not smooth enough to tell him how she feels, and every time she tries things just keep getting worse! That is, until one day she saves an injured fox struggling on a riverbank. To Inari’s surprise, the fox turns out to be the familiar of Uka, a beautiful goddess. As...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation Prod 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME INASummary: In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GIAMidlake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MidlaMidlake
Contents: Antiphon -- Provider -- The old and the young -- It's going down -- Vale -- Aurora gone -- Ages -- This weight -- Corruption -- Provider reprise.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIDMidlake
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIDSummary: In the movie, high school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. The last thing he expects is for the gods to answer. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat. Who will survive the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN ASSummary: In the future it is thought that wolves have become extinct, but in reality they have taken human form; this story follows a pack of wolves as they attempt to find a mysterious paradise called "Rakuen" meant only for creatures of their kind. Contains entire series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bandai Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WOLKawakami, Hiromi
Summary: In the Nakano Thrift Shop, the young woman who works the register falls for her reserved co-worker and asks her employers sister for advice in attracting him and soon comes to realize that love requires acceptance of idiosyncrasies and secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWIbuki, Hiroko
Summary: Sweet and soft animal friends made with popular Japanese knitting techniques. This collection of 25 cuddly toy animals includes everything from favourite pets to zoo animals. Made with soft materials and adorable expressions, these sweet companions make the perfect gift for newborns, grandchildren and animal lovers alike. While some fit in the palm of your hand, the largest is the huggable size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 IBUSamura, Hiroaki.
Summary: These stories are told with the same bold, kinetic art style and brilliantly paced storytelling that Samura's Blade of the Immortal epic is famous for. The main offering, "Ohikkoshi," follows the turbulent paths of several twenty-something art students as they fall in love, fall in lust, play in rock bands, ride motorbikes, eat, sleep (together), and try to avoid making life decisions while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OHIKanamori, Miyako.
Summary: Explains how to transform worn-out gloves, mittens, and socks into a menagerie of whimsical creations, in a guide that presents thirteen projects that include monkeys, elephants, piglets, bunnies, and fish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Shirasaki, Hiroko
Summary: "This comprehensive do-it-yourself home fermentation guide centres on the amazing superfoods at the heart of the healthy Japanese diet. Author and fermentation expert Hiroko Shirasaki starts with easy preparations for shio koji, amazake, nukazuke and three types of miso. Then she shows you how to harness the probiotic power of these and other fermented ingredients in scores of delicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Yoda, Hiroko.
Summary: Provides information and history on Japanese monsters, including the kappa, kitsune, and Onibaba.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 398.2 YODSummary: In the walled enclave where the remnants of humanity shelter from the Titans, giant creatures who have taken over the rest of the world, Eren and Mikasa join the fight against them after the city is breached and a Titan kills their mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME ATTPiroli, Carmen
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV OGRHirono, Mazie
Summary: "Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRONO, MAZIE HIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HIRONO HIRSummary: Follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016