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Zhang Yimou collectionSummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWISummary: In 1920s China, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. Competition between the wives is fierce, as their master's attention carries power, status and privileges. Each night Chen must decide which wife to spend the night with and a red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razor Digital Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jurassic 2018Summary: Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movei JurassicSummary: A lavish Chinese epic, set in the Age of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, tells the story of a royal court in turmoil: forbidden love, deceit, revenge, overpowering beauty, and greed. The second disc contains several in-depth bonus features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dragon Dynasty 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEGSia
Contents: Clap your hands -- The girl you lost to cocaine -- Destiny -- Buttons -- Day too soon -- Numb -- Where I belong -- Breathe me -- Sweet potato -- Bring night -- My love -- Titanium -- You've changed -- I go to sleep -- The fight -- Soon we'll be found -- Taken for granted -- Buttons.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Monkey Puzzle Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIASia
Contents: Little black sandals -- Lentil -- Day too soon -- You have been loved -- The girl you lost to cocaine -- Academia -- I go to sleep -- Playground -- Death by chocolate -- Soon we'll be found -- Electric bird -- Beautiful calm driving -- Lullaby.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hear Music 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIASia
Contents: Bird set free -- Alive -- One million bullets -- Move your body -- Unstoppable -- Cheap thrills -- Reaper -- House on fire -- Footprints -- Sweet design -- Broken glass -- Space between.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Monkey Puzzle Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIAJia, Zhangke
Summary: Looks at the history of Shanghai through the personal stories of eighteen people from all walks of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IMai, Jia
Summary: "One of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breaking In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAILiu, Jia
Summary: "When Merlin the owl tries to make a friend, it takes a little more practice than he expected"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUSummary: After giving up Wing Chun, Cheung Tin Chi ran into trouble with the local triad and had his home burnt to the ground. He took shelter on Bar Street and found solace from the neighbors. But when he discovered the triad was peddling drugs on Bar Street, Tin Chi took it upon himself to intervene. When the drug lord sought revenge and killed Tin Chi's friends, he decided to take on the drug lord in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MASSummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUTolentino, Jia
Summary: A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 TOLSia
Contents: Chandelier (3:36) -- Big girls cry (3:31) -- Burn the pages (4:00) -- Eye of the needle (4:00) -- Hostage (4:00) -- Straight for the knife (4:00) -- Fair game (4:00) -- Elastic heart (4:00) -- Free the animal (4:00) -- Fire meet gasoline (4:00) -- Cellophane (4:00) -- Dressed in black (4:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIASia
Contents: Rewrite (4:46) -- Sunday (4:14) -- Breathe Me (4:32) -- The Bully (3:49) -- Sweet Potato (3:56) -- Don't Bring Me Down (4:24) -- Natale's Song (2:28) -- Butterflies (3:23) -- Moon (4:59) -- The Church Of What's Happening Now (4:27) -- Numb (4:36) -- Where I Belong (4:43) -- Broken Biscuit (4:24) -- Sea Shells (4:49) -- Breathe Me (5:01) -- Breathe Me (4:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2003
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Sia
Contents: Fear -- Drink to get drunk -- Taken for granted -- Blow it all away -- Get me -- I'm not important to you -- Sober and unkissed -- Healing is difficult -- Judge me -- Little man -- Insidiously.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dance Pool 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIASia
Contents: Pictures (3:36) -- Don't Bring Me Down (4:36) -- Destiny (3:55) -- Blow It All Away (5:19) -- Lentil (4:11) -- Numb (4:24) -- I Go To Sleep (3:17) -- Breathe Me (5:52) -- Distractions (5:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2006
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Sia
Contents: Together -- Hey boy -- Saved my life -- Floating through space (with David Guetta) -- Eye to eye -- Music -- 1+1 -- Courage to change -- Play dumb -- Beautiful things can happen -- Lie to me -- Oblivion (featuring Labrinth) -- Miracle -- Hey boy (featuring Burna Boy).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIAYang, Jia Lynn
Summary: "A sweeping history of the legislative battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for the immigration debates roiling America today. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is today so pervasive, and seems so foundational, that it can be hard to believe Americans ever thought otherwise. But a 1924 law passed by Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 YANSummary: When Beijing journalist Ga Yu arrives in a remote Tibetan village, he immediately finds himself embedded in a relentless manhunt across the barren waste lands of Kekexili. Acting without the Chinese government's approval, this ragtag group of impoverished vigilantes has sworn to capture of kill the poachers responsible for decimating the sacred antelope of Kekexili.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARBrodell, Ria
Summary: Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2018