Summary: Gojira: A prehistoric monster, Godzilla, ravages metropolitan Tokyo. Scientists suspect that H-bomb tests awakened it from a two-million year sleep and they try to develop techniques to stop the monster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A world of adventure! Just, not for him. Kazuma Sato decides that today is the day to get out of the house for a bit. Since he dies, pointlessly, it's clearly a bad choice. The goddess who greets him in the afterlife, however, offers him a chance to be reborn in a world not unlike that of a video game, and as a bonus she'll even throw in a cool item or power! Can't possibly be a bad choice,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME KONSummary: When Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who had retired from the spotlight 30 years prior. As she recounts her career, Genya and his crew are literally pulled into her memories where they witness her chance encounter with a mysterious man on the run from the police. Despite never knowing his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME MILSummary: Past and present collide as a film director discovers a mysterious key that unlocks the secrets of a legendary actress who vanished at the height of her career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME MILWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC WILSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1929, an impoverished fishing village father sells his nine-year-old daughter, Chiyo, to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and she becomes subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. As she grows older, her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo. She is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDAbe, Momoko
Summary: "An avocado faces an identity crisis when it doesn't know if it's a fruit or a vegetable"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABEkeshi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KESHwang, Sun-mi
Summary: "No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, a hen glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild--and to hatch an egg of her own"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HWASunazaki, Tomoko.
Contents: Sea of spring (6:56) -- London no yoru no ame (3:51) -- Shinsencho bukyoku (9:37) -- Koto tanshishu (9:53) -- Tegoto (12:26) -- Mittsu no dansho (9:08) -- Kamimu (8:05) -- Midare (7:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fortuna 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN SUNKakita, Tomoko
Summary: Perfect the gift of giving. The only modern, practical guide to the ancient art of Japanese gift wrapping. Discover how to use Furoshiki - beautiful, reusable wrapping cloth, to make gift-giving extra special and joyful, and kinder to the planet too. In Japan, gift-giving is an important cultural ritual, and the presentation is just as important as the gift itself. Learn 30 exquisite yet easy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Laurence King Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 KAKSakai, Komako
Summary: A little rabbit enjoys having a day off from kindergarten and spending time with his mother during a snowstorm, but his father's flight home is cancelled until the snow stops falling.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SakSakai, Sonoko
Summary: The art of Japanese cooking lies in the twin appreciation of ingredients and process. Using high-quality, in-season ingredients in simple preparations is the way of Japanese home cooking that Sonoko Sakai promotes in this book of essential recipes. Beginning with the Japanese pantry, the key flavors of Japanese cuisine are explored alongside recipes for the fundamental building blocks of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roost Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Jackson, Kosoko
Summary: After a liver transplant, Andre suddenly becomes a time traveler, but is his soulmate Michael, who lives in 1969, or Blake, his donor's brother, who is training him in 2021?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACSakai, Komako
Summary: When everyone is asleep, Hannah wakes up and discovers the quiet, exciting night-time world. When Hannah wakes suddenly in the night, she discovers a whole new world of adventure. With nobody awake to tell her off, she can do just as she pleases. The book combines simple language with beautifully textured images, capturing the innocence and wonder of young children at play.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAKSummary: This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOJackson, Kosoko
Summary: "A chance to rewrite their ending is worth the risk in this swoony romantic comedy from Kosoko Jackson. It's been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting up at a café. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess his undying love. . . . But no, Hudson has a favor to ask-he wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJack, Alex
Summary: Eating a balanced, plant-based diet is not only the best choice for your health and the planet—these foods are also essential for your mental and emotional well-being. Marrying traditional wisdom and modern scientific and medical research, a vegan macrobiotic approach recognizes the profound effects food, environment, activities, and attitude can have on your physical and emotional health....
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 JACJackson, Kosoko
Summary: When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACJackson, Kosoko
Summary: "A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACOshimizu, Sachi.
Summary: Robotics expert, Dr. Otoi, built Signal as an older brother for his grandson, Nobuhiko. However, a mishap during construction causes Signal to occasionally become a baby! Soon Pulse appears, one of the Doctor's previous creations, loaded down with weapons and reprogrammed by Dr. Otoi's mysterious rival.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Media Blasters 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 OSHItō, Jōichi
Summary: "The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future.The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are suddenly just one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 304 ITOLee, Ilchi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healing Society 2005