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: Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME YOUSummary: When Professor Bresson, touted to be this century's most established archaeologist passes away, he leaves behind the Bresson Diary, rumored to hold clues to the treasures of a lost civilization. When elusive Lupin III, grandson of the famous French thief, learns of this, he decides to snatch the sought-after diary to claim the lost treasures for himself and to redeem his grandfather's name, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GKIDS 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LuSummary: The 27th day (1947, b & w, 76 min.): Five ordinary humans are given a box by aliens containing capsules capable of killing millions of people. If they can refrain from using the capsules for 27 days, the Earth will be spared. Will they be able to stand firm, especially when word leaks out and a panicked and furious population starts to hunt them down?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI VINSummary: 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: Ogami Itto, previously the official Shogunate executioner, is now a wandering assassin stripped of everything but his son, two swords, and his desire for revenge. Ogami is hired to kill Oyuki, the tattooed mistress of the martial arts, but on the way to fulfill his mission he has to fight Yagyu Gunbei and other assassins from the Yagyu clan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: AnimEigo 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LONSummary: Detective Maiku Hama navigates the Yokohama underworld with super cool threads and two-fisted street smarts. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he's in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant on the threshold of Yokohama's gutter, Hama's client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOSSummary: Sword of vengeance: He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido. Their first commission: to save the life of Daimyo and kill the traitors that plot his death. Baby Cart at the River Styx: The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami and his son Diagoro wander the countryside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Just as Nina explains to her friends her idea of the perfect guy, two of them drive in from the sky and abduct her. The boys are not human or from this world. They're taking their Magic Exam, in which they must recover the Crystal Pearl, an object Nina had mistaken for a piece of candy just moments before.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk 1Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Nina has a crush on Ichi, a cute boy wizard. But she also likes Zero, his best friend. Nina can't seem to choose between these two charmers. But when Zero sneaks a kiss, Nina is more confused than ever. Will Nina ever learn to listen to her heart?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk6Summary: The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKKikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Zero's not just the boy of Nina's dreams--he's also her hero. This super-cute wizard once made a promise to protect Nina from danger. But when a mysterious group of magicians steals Zero's magic, it's Nina's turn to get tough. Now Nina's all set to save Zero ... with the magical power of love!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk7Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: "The Magic Exams have arrived and changes are on the way. Nina will no longer have the cute boys, Zero and Ichi, to look after her. What's a girl to do- perhaps go out for a lollipop? But which flavor should she choose?"--Amazon website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk4Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Junior high student Nina is ready to fall in love and waiting for her dream guy to come along. Then, one day, two supercute guys literally fall out of the sky. Zero and Ichi are wizards who have come down to earth to take the magic exam. What Nina doesn't know is that protecting her is the test!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk2Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Junior high student Nina has a problem other girls can only dream about: two cute boys, Zero and Ichi, are madly in love with her! And they are both apprentice wizards to boot. When a wild magic spell goes terribly wrong, Nina has her first kiss! But who's the lucky boy?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk5Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: "Nina's in love-but who's the lucky boy? After all, what girl could choose between Zero and Ichî? They're both wizards, and they're both supercute! When a matchmaking witch slips Nina a love potion, will the magic spell help Nina choose her soul mate?"--Amazon website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk3Summary: A terrorist bomb destroyed a tanker truck on Highway One on Mars releasing a deadly virus killing hundreds. The rewards for the bomber's capture is massive and the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop would love to get their hands on it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME COWKira Kira
Contents: Call it music -- Warmer than the sun -- Blue my mind -- Laniakea -- Beautiful time -- Suikinkutsu -- Puretone -- Magic acid -- Space elevator
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arabesque
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC IRRSummary: Munich, 1923. Edward Elric has been separated from his brother for two years because of a sacrifice that ripped him out of his world and into ours. He is now allied with Alphons Heiderich, a fellow researcher who resembles his brother. When Ed saves a quiet Gypsy girl with the power to read minds, he is quickly pulled into a plot by the Thule Society and the Nazi Party. What will happen when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: 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 STOSummary: "Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger's lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she's figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who reluctantly becomes her familiar in a contract sealed with a kiss"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME KAMSummary: There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLKolchin, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1993