Qiu, Peipei
Summary: "Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan's wartime "comfort women" have provoked international debate in the past two decades. Yet there has been a dearth of first-hand accounts available in English from the women abducted and enslaved by the Japanese military in Mainland China -- the major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Chinese Comfort Women features the personal stories of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5351 QIUSummary: "By the early-1970s, Chang Cheh was already Shaw Brothers' most prolific and well-known director with a plethora of box office hits (including the One-Armed Swordsman franchise) to his name and renowned for discovering the hottest young talents to star in his films. Three of those stars - David Chiang, Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng - all feature in Five Shaolin Masters and Shaolin Temple, two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHASummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSChin, Lili
Summary: Want to know what your cat is really thinking or doing? Chin shows you how to read your kitty's mood. She explains behaviors in colorful detail so you can help your cat feel safe, secure, stimulated, and happy. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 CHIChin, Lili
Summary: "Dogs communicate with so much more than barks and tail wags, and misreading doggie body language makes life challenging for dogs and their humans. This small but mighty book is your perfect illustrated guide to seeing and understanding the subtle visual cues and interpreting the behaviors used by your beloved pup to express how they're feeling. The more we notice and listen to what our dogs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summersdale Publishers Ltd, part of Octopus Publishing Group Limited 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7083 CHIChien Chow Chine, Aur©♭lie
Summary: A little unicorn feels all kinds of emotions, including sadness, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Chien Chow 2020Chien Chow Chine, Aur©♭lie
Summary: A little unicorn feels all kinds of emotions, including shyness, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tequila is a die-hard cop who will stop at nothing to avenge his partner's murder, and joins forces with a rebel cop to fight the bad guys.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mei ya lei she ying die you xian gong si [distributor 1990
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARSummary: Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOVSummary: In 1920s China, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. Competition between the wives is fierce, as their master's attention carries power, status and privileges. Each night Chen must decide which wife to spend the night with and a red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razor Digital Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINCher
Summary: Collection of 15 video clips.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Reprise Video 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VERCher
Contents: Believe -- The power -- Runaway -- All or nothing -- Strong enough -- Dov'e l'amore -- Takin' back my heart -- Taxi taxi -- Love is the groove -- We all sleep alone.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHESummary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERCher
Contents: Woman's World (3:41) -- Take It Like A Man (4:10) -- My Love (3:31) -- Dressed To Kill (2:51) -- Red (3:06) -- Lovers Forever (4:01) -- I Walk Alone (3:23) -- Sirens (5:03) -- Favorite Scars (4:25) -- I Hope You Find It (3:46) -- Lie To Me (3:18) -- I Don't Have To Sleep To Dream (Bonus Track) (4:41) -- Pride (Bonus Track) (4:17) -- You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me (Original Version) [Bonus...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2013
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Cher
Summary: The one and only Cher releases a new album of all ABBA hits. The Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning icon was inspired to record the album following her stunning performance in the recently-released mega-hit film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHEChen, Sylvia
Summary: Jenny Chow, determined to hold her own in her family's annual chopsticks challenge, creates a solution through STEAM trial and error to master those slippery, oh-so-tricky chopsticks. Includes instructions on how to make DIY chopstick tongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A magical blend of music, comic banter between its two married stars, broad comedy sketches, and, of course, millions of fans tuned in each week to watch the sparks fly and see what Cher was (or wasn't!) wearing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IDahl, Michael
Summary: Captured by the sadistic guards of the prison planet Alcatraz, the two teenage friends, Zak, and the alien Erro, are placed in bottomless cages hovering over a sea of poison acid and if they fall asleep or lose their grip they will fall to their deaths--and Zak will need all of his ingenuity if he is going to figure out a way to save himself and his friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHCher
Contents: Woman's World (3:41) -- Take It Like A Man (4:10) -- My Love (3:31) -- Dressed To Kill (2:51) -- Red (3:06) -- Lovers Forever (4:01) -- I Walk Alone (3:23) -- Sirens (5:03) -- Favorite Scars (4:25) -- I Hope You Find It (3:46) -- Lie To Me (3:18).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2013