Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KURSummary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN RURkeshi
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 KESKojima, Takashi
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1954
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 513.028 KOJHayashi, Kotomi
Summary: "Popular and prolific author and knitwear designer Kotomi Hayashi presents 55 innovative stitch designs--specifically for those who have never tried Japanese-style knitting before. These include re-imagined modern variations on traditional stitches as well as Hayashi's own innovative inventions, which incorporate influences from her travels all around the world."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Marimo, comes home mentally drained after being laid off from her job. Her father runs Japanese candy business, facing a severe decline in customers and acquisition threat from a local competitor. One night, Marimo doses off in her bedroom. In her dream, she meets the mysterious duo of Rosie and Emo. From them, she learns how to rebuild her family's business through marketing, and starts to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 YASMiike, Takashi
Summary: The white Genji clan and the red Heike clan battle over a treasure hidden on a mountain, and when a mysterious gunman comes into town both clans try to lure him to their side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUKKonami, Kanata
Summary: Chi's adventures continue as her new family moves to a new home, she meets other cats, and learns to like the vacuum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical, Inc. 2016
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Summary: "As Chi Yamada has shown, kittens are a resourceful and strong lot. Through play and exploration they learn to hunt for their food and to define their territory, much like the big cats of the savannah and jungle. Chi's turf now stretches out for blocks. But after a brief sick spell, she is confined to her condo home while her instincts and heart command her to go out to spend time with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2012
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Summary: "Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2015
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Summary: A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicide--and becoming a lethal pandemic in less than a week. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALISummary: The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIFNonami, Asa
Summary: New bride Noriko is adjusting to her new life as a member of her husband Kazuhito Shito's large family, when she's accosted by a merchant who rents property from the Shitos. The merchant makes an oblique comment before fleeing. The brief, if unsettling, encounter achieves more prominence for Noriko after she learns that the man and his family died in a propane explosion, and she eavesdrops on a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NONSatyal, Rakesh
Summary: "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATIgus, Toyomi.
Summary: Chronicles and captures poetically the history, mood, and movement of African American music.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 780.89 IGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 780.98 IGUBakshi, Kelly
Summary: Offers 12 different views on the fight for gender equality. Each page provides information about what happened during the Women s Rights Movement and how it affected different people, along with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2018
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Summary: Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2011
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Summary: Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2011
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Summary: "After six years in North America the Chi's Sweet Home saga has finally come to an end! Chi, Blackie, Cocchi and the rest will wrap up their adventures near Green Park in this final collection. But before Chi moves on to her new role as a 3DCG anime star, will she find her true home? Or will she decide to move away in search of new adventures?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical Inc. 2016
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Summary: Kittens, at one point or another, have to set forth and explore the world. Chi goes wandering and learns the dangers of doing so, but it is also a point of feline growth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KONKonami, Kanata
Summary: The apartment manager has seen a cat around the building and wants it found and removed. Is it Chi?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KONKonami, Kanata
Summary: "Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Inc. 2016
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Summary: "When Tokiko's parents break up, she and her father move from the bustling city to a sleepy coastal town to live with her grandmother. Starting sixth grade in a new school where everyone has known each other their whole lives isn't easy. Things start to look up when local boy Yosuke, another outsider, wants to be friends. But then strange memories start to surface. Swimming in the ocean......
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023