Ishikawa, Masaji
Summary: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ISHIKAWA, MASAJI ISHSummary: A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME YOUSummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The truth about the Titans begins to come to light. Political secrets, a false king, and the reality that will shake the foundation of the world--all falls on the shoulders of Eren and his friends, as they fight to survive. With Historia set to be the rightful Queen, the Levi Squad must act. But a figure from Levi's past, the deadly Kenny, could turn this into a losing battle. Are Eren and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME ATTSummary: 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 HULSummary: When a massive gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A ragtag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side: the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHISummary: Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But then 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home to confront his pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CATSASAMI
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SASIshikawa, Akira
Contents: Wanyama na mapampbazuko -- Na tu penda sana -- Vita -- Pigmy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISHBatoh, Masaki
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BATIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Ignored while the other trees talk about how they will be dressed for Christmas, a small fir tree finds her dreams fulfilled on Christmas morning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2001
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE ICHIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Tanya loves ballet dancing, repeating the moves she sees her older sister using when practicing for class or a recital, and soon Tanya is big enough to go to ballet class herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction GauchCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAUIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Feeling neglected when Danny goes to sleep with his new stuffed animals rather than with him, Pangoo runs away to the zoo to live with the real-life penguins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION IchikawaIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Pablito, a Guatemalan boy whose pet pig Amarillo has disappeared, uses a kite to send him a message that he still loves him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ICHBatoh, Masaki
Contents: Nowhere -- Tower of the silence -- Tambourine -- Devil got me -- Gaucho no sora -- Dum spiro spero -- Sundown -- Boi-taull.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BATYoshikawa, Eiji
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOSYoshikawa, Mako.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOSYoshikawa, Isao
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joie, Inc. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0952 YOSDuus, Masayo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOGIshihara, Keiko.
Summary: At an all-girls school during the Taisho era of Japan, rumors swirl that heiress Sayaka Yoshimura is having a forbidden love affair with her chauffeur, Shinobu Narutaki! Sayaka scoffs at the rumors, but could a romance between master and servant actually be brewing? Sayaka wears a crimson ribbon that signals she is at the top of her class, and her classmates all revere her. So when Narutaki...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Ishihara, Keiko.
Summary: At an all-girls school during the Taisho Era of Japan, rumors swirl that heiress Sayaka Yoshimura is having a forbidden love affair with her chauffeur, Shinobu Narutaki! Sayaka scoffs at the rumors, but could a romance between master and servant actually be brewing? Sayaka’s father arranges for her to marry the son of an earl! Meanwhile, Sayaka has started to develop special feelings for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Gotsubo, Masaru.
Summary: Three strangers--a hardworking waitress, an arrogant mercenary, and a mysterious samurai--form an uneasy alliance as they search for the enigmatic Sunflower Samurai and cross paths with numerous characters, including ninjas, assassins, and princes in disguise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SAMMadani, Saura
Summary: "A warm slice of homemade pie can complete any celebration--but every baker knows that a problematic pie is enough to sour a sweet occasion. This pie cookbook gives you the support you need to start making perfect, homemade pies from scratch. This pie cookbook gets your dough rolling, complete with step-by-step techniques for mixing, shaping, rolling, and finishing your dough. Refine your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019