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Comic books, strips, etc Japan Demonology Japan Comic books, strips, etc Japan Japan Comic books, strips, etc Japan History Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 Comic books, strips, etc Legends Japan Comic books, strips, etc Man-woman relationships Comic books, strips, etc Mythology, Japanese Comic books, strips, etc Teenage girls Japan Comic books, strips, etc Time travel Comic books, strips, etcTurner, Pamela S.
Summary: Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MINTurner, Pamela S.
Summary: Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MINAMOTO, YOSHITSUNE TURFigal, Gerald A.
Summary: "Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 FIGMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a young samurai lord struggles to retake his throne, but not by fighting. Hojo Tokiyuki will reclaim his birthright by running away! In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: "The time has come for Tokiyuki and Yorishige's allies in Shinano to make their move against their enemies, the devious governor Ogasawara and the evil kokushi, Kiyohara. But in order to get the campaign going, Tokiyuki must earn the respect of Yorishige's warriors, and to do that, he'll need to engage his old nemesis, the wily Shokan. Shokan is no fool, however, and Tokiyuki will have to come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUKimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIMSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Matsui, Yūsei
Summary: "In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki's peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. The lone survivor of his family, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he'll have to do what he does best--run...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MATBlume, Lesley M. M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century--the true effects of the atom bomb--potentially saving millions of lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BLUHirano, Ryoji
Summary: "Savage demons devour unsuspecting humans in Taisho-era Japan. Armed with special swords, the Demon Slayer Corps fights to stop the devastation demons spread. Giyu Tomioka, the sole Water Hashira, and Kyojuro Rengoku, a high-ranking Kinoe, embark on missions to eliminate demons and prove their mettle as two of the fiercest Demon Slayers. Giyu heads north to an area where a band of hunters was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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Summary: "In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki's peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. The lone survivor of his family, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he'll have to do what he does best--run...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MANTakahashi, Rumiko
Summary: Kagome is a high-school girl pulled back in time to Japan's ancient past, her destiny linked to a doglike half-demon named Inu-Yasha. Kagome and Inu-Yasha must work together to recover the shards of the powerful Shikon Jewel before they fall into the wrong hands. In this volume: Sango's brother Kohaku has been freed of Naraku's spell--or has he? With Kagome's life in danger, Inu-Yasha and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Comics 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUTakahashi, Rumiko
Summary: Kagome is a high-school girl pulled back in time to Japan's ancient past, her destiny linked to a doglike half-demon named Inu-Yasha. Kagome and Inu-Yasha must work together to recover the shards of the powerful Shikon Jewel before they fall into the wrong hands. In this volume: The aftermath of a vicious argument sees Kagome stomping back to the present day, and Inu-Yasha sulking in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz, LLC 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUTakahashi, Rumiko
Summary: Kagome is a high-school girl pulled back in time to Japan's ancient past, her destiny linked to a doglike half-demon named Inu-Yasha. Kagome and Inu-Yasha must work together to recover the shards of the powerful Shikon Jewel before they fall into the wrong hands. In this volume: Inu-Yasha and his gang are up to their necks in enemies. First, Miroku and Sango face off against a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Blizzard of the blue moon: Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will that be enough to help a city that faces so many troubles?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Takahashi, Rumiko
Summary: Kagome is a high-school girl pulled back in time to Japan's ancient past, her destiny linked to a doglike half-demon named Inu-Yasha. Kagome and Inu-Yasha must work together to recover the shards of the powerful Shikon Jewel before they fall into the wrong hands. In this volume: The demon Naraku's origin as a human may prove to be his secret weakness, as the priestess Kikyo has begun to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Communications 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUTakahashi, Rumiko
Summary: Kagome is a high-school girl pulled back in time to Japan's ancient past, her destiny linked to a doglike half-demon named Inu-Yasha. Kagome and Inu-Yasha must work together to recover the shards of the powerful Shikon Jewel before they fall into the wrong hands. In this volume: In exchange for his help in eliminating her master, Kagura offers Sesshômaru the shard of the Sacred Jewel taken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Communications 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUDrabkin, Ronald
Summary: "In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Kagome is a high-school girl pulled back in time to Japan's ancient past, her destiny linked to a doglike half-demon named Inu-Yasha. Kagome and Inu-Yasha must work together to recover the shards of the powerful Shikon Jewel before they fall into the wrong hands. In this volume: Kagome faces a difficult decision--only she can help Kikyo heal from Naraku's miasma. Will the love triangle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUWeir, Alison
Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEITakahashi, Rumiko
Summary: Kagome is just a typical Japanese high-school girl. Sure, her grandfather is obsessed with ancient myths and mystical talismans, but none of that ever mattered to Kagome--until now. On one amazing day, a hideous, otherworldly creature pulls Kagome out of her own world and into Japan's ancient past, where her grandfather's dusty old legends have come to life, and her destiny is linked to one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Communications 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUHolub, Joan
Summary: Learn all about artists who changed history in this engaging and colorful board book perfect for creators-in-training!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019