Summary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011

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Summary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004

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Summary: Explores the three categories of mineral resources found within the earth (power resources, gem stones, and metals) and how they have been utilized for the advancement of civilization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Set amidst the urban jungle of Taipei, is this stylish tale of teen angst and despair. Centering on four disaffected, disillusioned youth, the storyline shuttles between the deadpan, petty con games of two Taipei hoods, a young woman, and a cab driver's son who's being pressured to study by his parents.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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Liao, Jenny

Summary: Even though Zia loves the Cantonese food her parents prepare at home, she is embarrassed to eat it at school, but when she realizes each meal has a special meaning, she begins to look forward to lunchtime. Includes a recipe for Zia's lucky yi mein.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Summary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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Summary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Sea Like Lead / Belegost

Contents: Anticline/Syncline -- Twilight of the gods -- Nightwalker/Deergod.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Electric Human Project 2005

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Alias

Contents: Ghost cloudz -- Crimson across it (featuring Doseone) -- Vermillion coda -- Amber revisions -- Gold clouddead skiez -- Joseph Greenleaf mornings -- Pistachio payoff -- Vallejo's sapphire views -- Indiiggo (featuring Therese Workman) -- Amethyst afternoon-- Pitch black prism -- Slackened onyx -- Aikotune.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2014

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Dido.

Summary: "...[DIDO has] crafted a set of elegantly rockin' romantic yearners...swelling-stringed emoters...[that] create a lovely sonic intamacy." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly 6/4/99, p.86-7.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 1999

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Liars

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021

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Summary: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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Shoham, Liad

Summary: "Joseph Finder hailed Liad Shoham's previous book, Lineup, as "a marvel of tight plotting, sparse prose, and relentless pacing." A young police officer's search for the truth about the murder of a young woman drives this new thriller from the #1 international bestseller"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

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Dido

Contents: No freedom -- Girl who got away -- Let us move on (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -- Blackbird -- End of night -- Sitting on the roof of the world -- Love to blame -- Go dreaming -- Happy New Year -- Loveless hearts -- Day before we went to war.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 2013

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Shoham, Liad

Summary: When a brutal rape case is thrown out due to a procedural technicality and the suspect goes free, disgraced Detective Eli Nahum, after another rape occurs in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, is determined to find the truth at any cost.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013

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Weiss, Liat

Summary: This fun and complete jewelry-making guide will show you everything you need to know about crafting with clay to make your own lightweight and modern clay earrings. Versatile, affordable, and easy to work with, polymer clay is the perfect medium for any crafter to try, and the possibilities are endless!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Chapel Publishing 2022

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Dido

Contents: White flag -- Stoned -- Life for rent -- Mary's in India -- See you when you're 40 -- Don't leave home -- Who makes you feel -- Sand in my shoes -- Do you have a little time -- This land is mine -- See the sun.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 2003

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Liars

Contents: disc 1. Scissor -- No barrier fun -- Here comes all the people -- Drip -- Scarecrows on a killer slant -- I still can see an outside world -- Proud evolution -- Drop dead -- The overachievers -- Goodnight everything -- Too much, too much --

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mute 2010

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Liars

Contents: The exact color of doubt -- Octagon -- No. 1 against the rush -- A ring on every finger -- Ill valley prodigies -- Wixiw -- His and mine sensations -- Flood to flood -- Who is the hunter -- Brats -- Annual moon words.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mute 2012

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Life

Contents: Friends without names -- Big moon lake -- Incomplete - Almost home -- Duck egg blue -- Shipping forecast -- Poison -- Self portrait -- The drug -- Our love is growing -- All you are

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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