Summary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWIHuang, Al Chung-liang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 HUAKrissoff, Liana.
Summary: This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature's bounty throughout the year. It features full-color photographs, recipes, and detachable canning labels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.4 KrissoffAn, Jiang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bess Press 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner 2002
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Summary: "Passing for Human is what Finck calls 'a neurological coming-of-age story,' one in which, through her childhood, human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mother was an artist whose creative life had been stifled by an unhappy first marriage and a deeply sexist society that seemed expressly designed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: An outstanding student and much admired leader of her class, Ji-Li Jiang was poised for a shining future in the Communist party until the Cultural Revolution of 1966. Told with simplicity, innocence and grace, this unforgettable memoir gives a child's eye view of a terrifying time in 20th-century history--and of one family's indomitable courage under fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JIAFinck, Liana
Summary: "How do you know if you're ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it's called mom brain and not dad brain and spending half your life on hold with your insurance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FINKrissoff, Liana
Summary: In Slow Cook Modern, Krissoff shares more than 150 recipes, including quick, fresh side dishes created for the adventurous home cook. All the slow cooker recipes are true 8-hour dishes, so you can actually prepare each dish in the morning and finish it quickly when you get home. The goal is to help people make complete meals with ease: Tarragon and Crème Fraîche Chicken with Cranberry-Orange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.58 KRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.58 KRILing, Laura
Summary: The never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue with the help of President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the world's most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LINLing, Laura.
Summary: On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the Chinese–North Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended them. Laura and Euna were charged with trespassing and "hostile acts," and imprisoned by Kim Jong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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Summary: Photographs and text depict the habits, diet, and characteristics of several kinds of crocodiles, alligators, turtles, snakes, and lizards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ELIFlatt, Lizann
Summary: As young readers journey into the natural world, they will discover that numbers, patterns, shapes and much more! can be found in everyday plants and animals. What if animals and plants knew math, just like us? Would snowflakes all fall from the same height in the sky? Would otters spread themselves evenly across lakes? Would groundhogs be aware of the date? In Sizing Up Winter, the third title...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FLAFling, Helen.
Summary: Instructions for constructing and costuming marionettes, stringing them for one or two hand control, manipulating them, and staging a show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.5 FLILaing, Olivia
Summary: Olivia Laing examines the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323 LAILe, Khang
Summary: Documents the creative process of concept design by 3 students from the Art Center College of Design under the guidance of their instructor, Scott Robinson. The concept design includes a host of intriguing places and people, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's tale "The skillfull huntsman". Discussion of ideas and techniques used to create this stunning collection of artwork between Robertson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Design Studio Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 LEReang, Putsata
Summary: "The memoir of a woman caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she owes her mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REANG, PUTSATA REATrang, Corinne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 TRAUliano, Sophie.
Summary: In Gorgeously Green, Sophie offers a simple eight-step program that is an easy and fun way to begin living an earth-friendly life. Each chapter covers topics from beauty to fitness, shopping to your kitchen--even your transportation. Whether it's finding the right lipstick, making dinner, buying gifts, or picking out a hot new outfit, finally, there is a book that tackles your daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72082 ULIYan, Lianke
Summary: "In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and '70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, aswell as his own. Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANLing, Mary.
Summary: Simple text and photographs depict the early stages of an owl's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kindersley/Houghton Mifflin,c 1992. 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Nature Ling 1992Kuang, Cliff
Summary: Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, Kuang and Fabricant provide a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 KUAMarques, Luana.
Summary: In Almost Anxious, Luana Marques, Ph.D., describes the spectrum of almost anxiety symptoms, from normal situational anxiety on one end to a full-blown diagnosable anxiety disorder on the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 2013