Lock, Deborah
Summary: A traveler tells the story of his safari in Kenya, the people he met, the stories he heard, and the wildlife he experienced.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LOCYu, Hua
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUHua, Vanessa
Summary: "In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUAHua, Vanessa
Summary: "A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUAHsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUYu, Hua
Summary: Presents thirteen tales about the sorrows, joys, and constants of modern China, including the story of an awkward youth who uses the perks of his government to court two women and a couple who toils in factories only to learn that their son has been wasting their money.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUYu, Hua
Summary: Set against the backdrop of a modern-day China caught in the midst of a growing capitalism, Baldy Li, a teenage ne'er-do-well, and Song Gang, his bookish stepbrother, vow to preserve their close relationship despite their personal differences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUYu, Hua
Summary: Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Summary: "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 SHAContents: Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (Scott Joplin) -- Maple leaf rag / S. Joplin (Jelly Roll Morton) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (Bessie Smith) --Lost your head blues / Bessie Smith (Bessie Smith) -- Dippermouth blues / Joe Oliver (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) -- Black bottom stomp ; Dead man blues ; Grandpa's spells / F.J. Morton (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- King porter stomp /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SMIHot Club of Detroit
Contents: Goodbye, Mr. Anderson (6:00) -- Song for Gabriel (4:12) -- La foule (4:11) -- Hey! (5:57) -- Chutzpah (5:37) -- Messe gitance (3:54) -- Django mort (5:30) -- Junction (4:02) -- Midnight in Detroit (2:10) -- Lonely woman (5:42) -- Goodbye Mr. Shearing (4:00) -- Puck bunny (4:01) -- Rift (5:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mack Avenue, Inc 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOTHot Club of Cowtown
Contents: My candy (4:08) -- Last call (4:47) -- Caveman (3:29) -- Near Mrs. (4:41) -- Three little words (3:13) -- Billy the kid (4:20) -- Tall tall ship (3:21) -- Rodeo slues (3:47) -- Ways of escape (4:24) -- Loch Lomond (2:50) -- High upon the mountain (4:01) -- Easy money (4:15) -- Before the time of men (5:05) -- How high the moon (4:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOTHot Club of Cowtown
Contents: Can't go on this way -- Reunion -- If you leave me -- Cabiria -- Heart of Romain -- Georgia -- What you meant to me -- Carry me close -- Long way home -- Magic violin -- (Intro) One step closer -- One step closer -- Columbus stockade blues -- Someone to watch over me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gold Strike Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOTContents: I need a doctor (Hot Snakes) -- Rhinestones (Olivia Jean) -- Take up thy stethoscope and walk (Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin) -- Matter of matter (White Denim) -- Cicada (La Luz) -- Ontology (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) -- Encrypted bounce (Thee Oh Sees) -- I can see light bend (Sonic Boom) -- Golden flower (Wooden Shjips) -- Perfume (Wand) -- Hypnagogia (Death Valley Girls) -- This side of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJHot Club of Detroit
Contents: Belleville / D. Reinhardt (4:41) -- Passion / J. Colombo, A. Murena (2:47) -- Honeysuckle rose / A. Razaf, T. Waller (3:41) -- Leila / W. Montgomery (5:14) -- Stompin' at Decca / D. Reinhardt (4:33) -- Nuages / D. Reinhardt (6:58) -- Swing one / E. Perri (4:41) -- Aurore / F. Lafertin (5:34) -- How insensitive / A.C. Jobim, V. de Moraes de Marcus, N. Gimbel (6:06) -- Tears / D. Reinhardt (3:57)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mack Avenue Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOTHot Club of Detroit
Contents: I want to be happy (3:00) -- J'attendrai (4:41) -- Valse a Rosenthal (2:47) -- Seven steps to Heaven (3:22) -- Speevy (4:40) -- Coquette (5:13) -- Sweet substitute (3:24) -- Blues up and down (3:49) -- Pour parler (5:58) -- Melodie au crepuscule (3:30) -- Two weeks (5:06) -- Tzigane (3:43) -- Django's monkey (4:14) -- Night town (5:10) -- Swing 05 (5:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mack Avenue 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOTAly, Götz
Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALYI Dont Know How But They Found Me
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISummary: On the run from a drug cartel, a Mexican couple battles vicious thugs who plan to continue the violent tradition of the now-outlawed Purge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLNguyen, Hoa
Summary: "A new collection of poetry by Hoa Nguyen"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 NGUChoi, Eun-Gyu.
Summary: A small child observes dramatic changes in the weather, and sees the animals around behave differently depending on what the weather does. Includes facts about weather and animal behavior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big & Small 2015