Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: After his family was brutally murdered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado's journey as a demon slayer began. Tanjiro and his comrades embark on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train, on track to despair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME DEMSummary: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YANSummary: Yui Komori has spent her life sheltered by the Church and the man she thinks of as her father, but now she's going to a new home and there's a very different kind of family waiting for her. To her dismay, she discovers that she'll be living with six very attractive young men, and not a single one is human!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME DIASummary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEESummary: Based on a true story: as civil war rages in Mogadishu, rival North and South Korean diplomats are left trapped. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival may require uniting with bitter adversaries to escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ESCAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAShimoff, Marci.
Summary: Everyone wants to be happy--yet so many people are unhappy today. What are they doing wrong? Clearly, a new approach is needed. Self-help guru Shimoff presents three new ideas and a practical program to change the way readers look at creating happiness in their lives: 1. Happiness is not an emotion, a spike of elation or euphoria, but a lasting, neuro-physiological state of peace and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 SHIFirst Aid Kit
Contents: The lion's roar -- Emmylou -- In the hearts of men -- Blue -- This old routine -- To a poet -- I found a way -- Dance to another tune -- New Year's Eve -- King of the world.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wichita 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIREagle, Kin.
Summary: This expanded version of the traditional rhyme shows what happens to the old man in all kinds of weather.Includes music on the last page.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Whispering Coyote Press 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EAGFujiwara, Kiyo.
Summary: Sachie Wakamura just lost her mother, and her estranged grandfather has shown up to take care of her. The only problem is that Grandpa is the head of a yakuza gang! Sachie tries to continue living her normal life, but she can't run far since Rakuto, on of the most popular guys in school, is part of her grandfather's gang and her new protector. Soon Sachie finds herself falling for her...
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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 WILSperry, Kip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everton Publishers 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3745 SperrBio Ritmo
Contents: Se les olvido -- La via -- Picaresca -- Perdido -- Motocilengua -- Pajaro pio pio -- Le dicen dolor -- Codeina
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vampisoul 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BIOJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOJohnson, Kij.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHEdelman, Shimon.
Summary: Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 EDEFujiwara, Kiyo.
Summary: "Rakuto and Sachie finally bring themselves to openly acknowledge their feelings for each other and begin going through the awkward motions of redefining their relationship. But crisis looms as Rakuto decides to move to Kyoto to live with his ailing father. Will their new love be able to survive the separation?"--Publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WILKino, Carol
Summary: The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women's publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KINKix, Paul
Summary: "A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, ROBERT DE KIXMoore, Kip
Contents: Drive me crazy -- Mary was the marrying kind -- Somethin' 'bout a truck -- Up all night -- Crazy one more time -- Everything but you -- Reckless (Still growin' up) -- Hey pretty girl -- Motorcycle -- Where you are tonight -- Faith when I fall.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Nashville 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MOOFirst Aid Kit
Contents: My silver lining -- Master pretender -- Stay gold -- Cedar lane -- Shattered & hollow -- The bell -- Waitress song -- Fleeting one -- Heaven knows -- A long time ago.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIRMin, Lio
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Santi Arboleda finally feels settled in his new life in Los Angeles with a growing found family and a relationship with musical prodigy Suwa--until Suwa is offered the chance to step into the spotlight that he has always denied himself and they must finally face their dreams, their pasts, and their futures, whether together or apart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022