Summary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: Wake Island: A handful of U.S. Marines holdout against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tammy and the bachelor: As a little Mississippi riverboat girl, Tammy falls in love with a wealthy southern gentleman after she and her rascally grandfather rescue him from a plane crash -- Tammy tell me true: The adventures of Tammy continue in college, where the worldly-wise small-town gal helps a broken-hearted artist paint a happy future, teaches a haughty heiress that the Golden Rule is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE TAMSummary: Pillow talk: Two single professionals find themselves sharing a party line - and a whole lot more - when they get their lines crossed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGGrass, Gunter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Company 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrass, Gunter
Contents: The tin drum -- Cat and mouse -- Dog years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MJF Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrass, Günter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrass, Gunter
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrass, Gunter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Grass, Günter
Summary: Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRASS, GUNTER GRAGrass, Günter
Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRAGrass, Günter
Summary: The final work of the Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass--a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 GRAGrass, Günter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrass, Günter
Contents: Ausgefragt / Questioned -- Zwischen Greise gestellt / Placed amid old men -- Ehe / Marriage -- Advent / Advent -- Plötzliche Angst / Sudden fright -- König Lear / King Lear -- Vom Rest unterm Nagel / Of the residue under our nails -- Offenes Feuer / Open fire -- Schlaflos / Sleepless -- Liebe / Love -- Dreht euch nicht um / Don't turn round -- Platzangst / Claustrophobia -- Hymne / Hymn --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRAGrass, Günter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dt. Taschenbuch Verl. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.6 FICTION GRAKanter, Rosabeth Moss.
Summary: The author looks at winning and losing in the business world, arguing that the key to success lies in an organization's character, perseverance, winning tradition, and confidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 KANBass, Hester
Summary: "Discover how the black and white citizens of one Alabama city chose peace over violence in the struggle to end segregation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323 BASKanter, Rosabeth Moss
Summary: "To address the big social and environmental issues of our day--from poverty, to race and gender disparities, to climate change--we need a different kind of leadership. Good leadership can help solve problems and guide an organization to success. Over a decade ago, Kanter cofounded and has since directed Harvard's breakthrough Advanced Leadership Initiative. In this book, she combines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020