Summary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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K'wan
Summary: #1 Essence best selling author K'wan returns with the explosive fourth installment in the Animal saga. Animal, the gentle and kind-hearted family man, is still infamous for turning at any moment into a cold-blooded killer. Animal is the product of ruthless abuse and the unforgiving streets; he is the product of the world he (and everyone else) lives in. Is there anything that could push...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Summary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former US diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEIChao, Rosalind
Summary: When a young woman is sold into marriage by her poor father, she instead winds up in an Idaho gold mining town, where she finds direction in her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Bartlett, Rosamund.
Summary: Traces the lives and legacies of some of Russia's foremost writers, discussing their role in the spiritual, political, and intellectual lives of their readers while touring some of Russia's most significant literary museums and historical sites.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.709 BARDUJARDIN, ROSAMOND
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1951
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Place a hold to request this item.Kwan, Kevin
Summary: "The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kwan 2020Kwan, Kevin
Summary: "Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus's scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Kwan, Kevin.
Summary: A wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birth father.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KWAKang, Chol-hwan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 KANG, CHOL-HWAN KANLupton, Rosamund.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: "Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ROUBurton, Rosamund.
Contents: 1.The map -- 2.Coming home to the castle -- 3.On my way -- 4.Perfect potatoes -- 5.The Rock of Cashel -- 6.Books and bishops -- 7.Brigid -- 8.Raths and a heavy backpack -- 9.Good boots -- 10.The Legend of Knockgrafton -- 11.The kindness of strangers -- 12.The cottage and the well -- 13.Backtracking -- 14.Castle Grace -- 15.Lost on the mountain -- 16.Bay Lough and Petticoat Loose --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.915 BURHodge, Rosamund.
Summary: "Rachelle must protect the king's bastard son while searching for the weapons that will save her world from endless night"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HODLupton, Rosamund
Summary: "Yasmin, a beautiful astrophysicist, and her precocious deaf daughter, Ruby, arrive in a remote part of Alaska to be told that Ruby's father, Matt, has been the victim of a catastrophic accident. Unable to accept his death as truth, Yasmin and Ruby set out into the hostile winter of the Alaskan tundra in search of answers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LUPLupton, Rosamund.
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Sister comes a gripping, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school was on fire, and Grace's last memory is of trying to reach her daughter, Jenny, trapped inside the inferno. While their burned bodies are frantically cared for by doctors, Grace and Jenny awaken in the hospital in a strange in-between state....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LUPLupton, Rosamund.
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Sister comes a gripping, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school was on fire, and Grace's last memory is of trying to reach her daughter, Jenny, trapped inside the inferno. While their burned bodies are frantically cared for by doctors, Grace and Jenny awaken in the hospital in a strange in-between state....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lupton 2012Lupton, Rosamund.
Summary: From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sister comes a compelling, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school is on fire. Her children are inside. Grace runs toward the burning building, desperate to reach them. In the aftermath of the devastating fire which tears her family apart, Grace embarks on a mission to find the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2012
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Bartlett, Rosamund.
Summary: Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including much fascinating new material made available since the collapse of the Soviet Union. She sheds light on Tolstoy's remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya, a subject long neglected; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved. Above all, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOLSTOY, LEO BARHodge, Rosamund
Summary: Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: The story of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who suffered an eye injury after being struck by a grenade in Sri Lanka.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018