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Big band music Cooking (Natural foods) Japan Jazz Latin jazz Magic Magic Drama Mambos (Music) Popular music RevengeSummary: Whilst wandering war torn country during the Sengoku period, a nameless ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotaro, his dog and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Seeing something of his own past within the child, the nameless swordsman chooses to act his bodyguard, but can he truly keep Kotaro from the clutches of the Ming...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOSummary: A terrorist bomb destroyed a tanker truck on Highway One on Mars releasing a deadly virus killing hundreds. The rewards for the bomber's capture is massive and the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop would love to get their hands on it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME COWContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A world of adventure! Just, not for him. Kazuma Sato decides that today is the day to get out of the house for a bit. Since he dies, pointlessly, it's clearly a bad choice. The goddess who greets him in the afterlife, however, offers him a chance to be reborn in a world not unlike that of a video game, and as a bonus she'll even throw in a cool item or power! Can't possibly be a bad choice,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME KONSummary: The third film in the Animerama Trilogy. The setting is a village in medieval France. On the day of their wedding, Jean and Jeanne visit the lord of the village to pay a tribute. Instead of receiving the tribute, the lord and his vassals rape her, and the marriage is marked with misery and unhappiness. One day, a tiny creature visits Jeanne, an evil spirit. In time, the spirit seduces her body...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BELSummary: Munich, 1923. Edward Elric has been separated from his brother for two years because of a sacrifice that ripped him out of his world and into ours. He is now allied with Alphons Heiderich, a fellow researcher who resembles his brother. When Ed saves a quiet Gypsy girl with the power to read minds, he is quickly pulled into a plot by the Thule Society and the Nazi Party. What will happen when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASMachito.
Contents: Tanga -- Vaya Nina -- Babarabatiri -- Cleopatra rumba (Desert dance) -- Llora timbero -- Carambola -- Oboe mambo (with Mitch Miller, oboe) -- Freezelandia -- Mambo Inn -- Mambo mucho mambo -- Mambo America -- Asia minor -- No me molesto -- Tibiri tabara -- Frenzy -- Oyeme -- Minor rama -- Brazilian soft shoe -- Barbarabae -- Coisa nova -- The Afro-Cuban jazz suite (written, arranged and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Él in association with Cherry Red Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MACMachito.
Contents: Holiday mambo -- Donde estabas tu -- Carambola -- Ay que mate -- Mambo a la savoy -- Que me falta -- Amalia los invita -- Bongo fiesta -- Oboe mambo -- Contigo en la distancia -- Freezelandia -- Hay que recordar -- Sambia -- Bee-ree-bee-kym-bee --Sí sí no no -- Mambo inn -- Negro nanamboro -- Adiós -- Bella mora -- Mambo mucho mambo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MACSummary: Ogami Itto, previously the official Shogunate executioner, is now a wandering assassin stripped of everything but his son, two swords, and his desire for revenge. Ogami is hired to kill Oyuki, the tattooed mistress of the martial arts, but on the way to fulfill his mission he has to fight Yagyu Gunbei and other assassins from the Yagyu clan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: AnimEigo 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LONMachito.
Contents: Howard's blues -- Indianola -- How high the moon -- Cubop City --Boppin' the vibes -- Mambo -- Lament for the conga -- Reminisicing at twilight -- Tanga -- Lean on me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlite Records 1979
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MACCapula, Massimo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.6 CAPSummary: Sword of vengeance: He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido. Their first commission: to save the life of Daimyo and kill the traitors that plot his death. Baby Cart at the River Styx: The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami and his son Diagoro wander the countryside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Itō, Jōichi
Summary: "The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future.The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are suddenly just one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 304 ITOMishima, Yukio
Summary: "Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISMishima, Yukio
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: M.E. Sharpe 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISSugaya, Masahiro.
Contents: Horizon (Intro) -- Future green -- Afternoon of the appearing fish -- Grain of sand by the sea -- Straight line floating in the sky -- Wind conversation -- Until the end of the world -- Horizon (Outro).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUGHashimi, Nadia
Summary: When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASMishima, Yukio
Summary: Irresistible to women, the beautiful, young Yuichi embarks on a loveless marriage while he enters a homosexual underworld during postwar Japan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISTashiro, Chisato
Summary: In order to win a race and claim the ultimate piece of cheese, five mice team up to build an unbeatable car, but they will have to navigate a dog, heavy human feet, and a big, bouncing red ball.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TASYashima, Taro
Summary: A tender story of a neglected outsider and the power he gains from being accepted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC YASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YASKasahara, Masahiro
Summary: "Discover a new world of quick and delicious noodle and pasta dishes: Simmer up some soba, Slurp a bowl of ramen. Or prepare a plate of pasta with a twist. Japanese Noodle King Masahiro Kasahara presents his personal favorites - a curated collection of recipes from the kitchens of his wildly popular Tokyo noodle shops. With stocks, sauces and appetizers as well as snacks and sides, 'The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022