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Kadohata, Cynthia Kadohata, Cynthia. Kajikawa, Kimiko. Kamozawa, Aki. Katakawa, YukoSummary: 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME KONKajikawa, Kimiko.
Summary: A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J398.20952 KajKatakawa, Yuko
Summary: Mouse, Fox, Snake, and Spider try to frighten Bear, the biggest, loudest, bravest, strongest--and possibly trickiest--animal in the forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KATKadohata, Cynthia
Summary: When eleven-year-old Becca, a quadruplet, finds a sick piglet on the side of the road, her life is changed forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: JFIC KADKamozawa, Aki.
Summary: The writers of Popular Science's "Kitchen Alchemy" online column share informative essays that explain both food-preparation methods and underlying science, building on today's popular "geek-chic" trends with one hundred recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 KAMKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADKadohata, Cynthia
Summary: Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KADKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADSummary: After discovering she can leap through time, high school student Makoto Konno does what any teenager would do. She re-takes tests, corrects embarrassing situations, and sleeps in as late as she wants, never thinking that her carefree time traveling could have a negative effect on the people she cares about. By the time she realizes the damage she's done, she'll have to race against time to set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME GIRKadohata, Cynthia
Summary: To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION KadohataKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KADSummary: Otsuya is the daughter of a rich merchant who is tempted by her lover, Shinsuke, a lowly employee of her father's, to elope. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN IRESummary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRSummary: Earth's last city, Olympus rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city's population. Human terrorists seek a return to power and clash with a legendary soldiers, Deunan Knute and her boyfriend who is 75% machine. To save humanity and end the conflicts, retrieving the Appleseed is a must. Deunan alone holds it's secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon 2005
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME APPSummary: In Treasure Town, life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White, two street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. When foreign investors want to destroy the town and turn it to an amusement park, they face their greatest adversaries yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEKSummary: Follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN DARSummary: "Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he suffers from MPD (multiple personality disorder) and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after he manages to hunt down and kill his wife's murderer. Now a new series of murders have started and the suspect claimed to be Shinji Nishizono. Could it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eiji Ohtsuka Office/MPD Psycho Project 2000
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MPDSummary: "Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encore Films 2011
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SUMSummary: Despite the loss of her beloved mother and a string of misfortunes, Tohru Honda is always smiling, even while living in a tent! But after learning that she's living on land belonging to the Soma family, she receives an invitation to live with Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure! Surrounded by Somas, Tohru discovers their family secret: When hugged by someone of the opposite gender, they turn into Zodiac...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Anime Fr 1-1Summary: Masuoka is a cameraman possesed by the craving to understand fear. After he brings home a strange girl he finds in the caverns below the subway, he realizes that he has found the key to gaining that terrible knowledge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove, seen from four different perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the midst of epic, violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GATSummary: In the midst of epic violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013