Summary: A heartwarming comedy about coal miners' daughters who took a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape their monotonous lives, only to become unwitting heroes to their depressed mining town. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HULSummary: Tenchi Masaki, a high school student, accidentally sets the demon girl Ryoko free from a 700-year sleep. Thus begins Tenchi's adventures with the supernatural and outer space as he is caught in the middle of a feud between Ryoko and Ayeka, princess of the planet Jurai.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME TENSummary: A group of heroic figures span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power hungry North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young widow Tanpopo attempts to start a small ramen noodle restaurant. She has little success until she meets Gorō, a cowboy-hat-wearing truck driver who decides to helps her to make the perfect bowl of top ramen. A story that features various subplots and an eclectic group of supporting characters, all of whom have expressively passionate relationships with food.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAMSummary: Shinko is a third-grade elementary school student with a magically active imagination. She spends a lot of her time listening to her grandfather's history lessons, imagining what her town was like 1,000 years earlier. One day, a sad and somber girl called Kiiko transfers to Shinko's school from Tokyo. A strong friendship soon grows between the two girls as Shinko helps Kiiko come out of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME MAISummary: At Grace Field House, life couldn't be better for the orphans! Though they have no parents, together with the other kids and a kind 'Mama' who cares for them, they form one big, happy family. No child is ever overlooked, especially since they are all adopted by the age of 12. Their daily lives involve rigorous tests, but afterwards, they are allowed to play outside.There is only one rule they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME PROGotsubo, Masaru.
Summary: Three strangers--a hardworking waitress, an arrogant mercenary, and a mysterious samurai--form an uneasy alliance as they search for the enigmatic Sunflower Samurai and cross paths with numerous characters, including ninjas, assassins, and princes in disguise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SAMShiga, Jason.
Summary: When his best friend, Sara, moves to New York City, Jimmy works up the courage to travel cross-country by bus to see her and perhaps change their relationship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comic Art 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHIGotsubo, Masaru.
Summary: Three strangers--a hardworking waitress, an arrogant mercenary, and a mysterious samurai--form an uneasy alliance as they search for the enigmatic Sunflower Samurai and cross paths with numerous characters, including ninjas, assassins, and princes in disguise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SAMShura.
Contents: (I) -- Nothing's real -- What's it gonna be? -- Touch -- Kidz 'n stuff -- Indecision -- What happened to us? -- (Ii) -- Tongue tied -- Make it up -- 2shy -- White light.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHUShura
Contents: That's me, just a sweet melody -- Side effects -- Religion (u can lay your hands on me) -- The stage -- Bklynldn -- Tommy -- Princess Leia -- Flyin' -- Forever -- Control -- Skyline, be mine.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHUShins
Contents: Sleeping Lessons (3:58) -- Australia (3:57) -- Pam Berry (0:57) -- Phantom Limb (4:48) -- Sea Legs (5:23) -- Red Rabbits (4:31) -- Turn On Me (3:42) -- Black Wave (3:19) -- Spilt Needles (3:46) -- Girl Sailor (3:44) -- A Comet Appears (3:49).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Pop Records 2007
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Summary: In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellsping 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANShida, Hitomi
Summary: In the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible knitting guru Hitomi Shida shares some of her favorite needlework patterns. Shida's strikingly original designs and variations on every imaginable classic stitch result in intricate patterns that form the basis for beautiful and unique knitted fashions. This is the perfect book for the experienced knitter who is looking for new stitches that yield...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 SHIRea, Shiva.
Summary: Disc 1: An energizing, balanced sequence cultivating strength and flexibility, inner and outer alignment ; Disc 2: a relaxing flow for deep release and relaxation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE YOGEvans, Shira
Summary: Teaches readers all about dolphins, from the classic bottlenose dolphin to the orca.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE EVAShiva, Vandana
Summary: "With a new epilogue about Bill Gates's global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires' war on life Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world's seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet-and all its people-to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs. the 1%,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Gill, Shira
Summary: "The co-founders of Havenly help you find your own style in this fresh and accessible guidebook to the complicated world of interior design"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Spector, Shira
Summary: "Self-described as "an infertile, high-femme, low income, non-biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen, and ectopic pregnancy survivor," the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 SPECTOR, SHIRA SPESummary: Collects four volumes featuring playtime with animal babies, including puppies, kittens, otters, and lion cubs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Evans, Shira
Summary: "Take a stroll along the beach. What do you see? Young readers will learn all about the beach and the animals that call it home in this fun pre-reader. Through text features such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to new words and concepts -- helping them expand their understanding of the world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN EVAEvans, Shira
Summary: Describes the various people and their jobs in your neighborhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners LLC 2018
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Summary: Teaches readers all about river otters, including their activities, what they eat, and how they teach their youmg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Evans, Shira
Summary: A kitten enjoys a day filled with fun and exploration in a skill-building reader that includes a vocabulary tree and a wrap-up activity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016