Lo, Ginnie.
Summary: "A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans--a favorite Chinese food--growing in Illinois, leading her family to a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event. Includes author's note and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOSummary: In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVHo, Jannie
Summary: "Happy Chinese New Year! The zodiac animals are ready to celebrate Chinese New Year with traditions and a big feast! Little ones can count to twelve as each animal prepares for the holiday- Rat cleaned away the bad luck in one big sweep! Ox shopped for two new outfits. Tiger brought three kinds of flowers. Includes numbers written in Chinese characters and their pronunciation"--Publisher's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HO (BOARD)Ho, Jannie.
Summary: Is Bear friend or foe? When Bear finds a chicken frozen in the winter snow, he brings her home to defrost her. As Chicken thaws--um, awakens--she fears that Bear is actually preparing to eat her. Oh no! Will Chicken become Bear's lunch? Or does Bear have a different plan in mind?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Ho 2017Summary: 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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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPLi, Winnie M.
Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LILi, Winnie M.
Summary: "After a long-buried, harrowing incident, a woman whose promising film career was derailed has an opportunity for revenge in this visceral and timely thriller about power, privilege, and justice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMVarious Artists
Contents: St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) -- Match box blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- Ain't no tellin' (Mississippi John Hurt) -- Lord, I just can't keep from cryin' (Blind Willie Johnson) -- Pigmeat is what I crave (Bo Carter) -- Southern can is mine (Blind Willie McTell) -- Low down St. Louis blues (Lonnie Johnson) -- Revenue man blues (Charley Patton) -- Stormy night blues (Leroy Carr) -- I believe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1990
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LEGSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGContents: Down at Jasper's bar-b-que (Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon) (2:46) -- Who did you give my barbecue to? Part 1 (Big Boy Teddy Edwards) (2:59) -- Pig meat on the line (Memphis Minnie) (2:33) -- Pork chop blues (The Two Charlies) (2:57) -- Barbecue bust (Mississippi Jook Band) (2:35) -- I crave my pig meat (Blind Boy Fuller) (2:44) -- Barbecue blues (Barbecue Bob) (3:11) -- Pepper sauce mama (Charlie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Old Hat 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BARSummary: To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMER WEAHendricks, Bonnie L. (Bonnie Lou)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of Oklahoma Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1003 HENSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMLow Cut Connie (Musical group)
Contents: All these kids are way too high [Explicit] -- Beverly -- Oh Suzanne -- Everytime you turn around -- Hollywood -- One more time -- Master tapes [Explicit] -- Please do not come home -- Desegregation -- Hey! Little child.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOWContents: Disc One: Sexual healilng--Time after time--If you don't know me by now--I go crazy--Can't we try--Total eclipse of the heart--Kiss and say goodbye--Me and Mrs. Jones--Everytime you go away--Shake you down--After the love has gone--Longer
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BODHennie, Aksel
Summary: A successful headhunter subsidizes his expensive lifestyle by stealing valuable artwork, but when he meets a former mercenary his two professional worlds collide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEAContents: Sam -- the hot dog man / Lil Johnson (2:59) -- My stove's in good condition / Lil Johnson (2:55) -- Wipe it off / Lonnie Johnson (3:17) -- The best jockey in town / Lonnie Johnson (2:55) -- Shave 'em dry I / Lucille Bogan (2:49) -- Shave 'em dry II / Lucille Bogan (3:06) -- He's just my size / Lillie Mae Kirkman (2:46) -- If it don't fit (don't force it) / Barrel House Annie (2:50) -- Furniture...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Legacy 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES RAUSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSMilne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
Summary: A small boy named Christopher Robin embarks on a series of adventures with Piglet, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl, and the roly-poly Winnie-the-Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013