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Dakin Lucier, Makiia Madia, Brianna Maker Makiya, Kanan Mariza Mariza. Marta Maunakea, Malia Wojciechowska, MaiaSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, set 3000 years in the future. Therein, the mysterious Count infiltrates the Parisian aristocracy in order to exact revenge on the men who destroyed his life decades years ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GANSummary: Set in postwar Japan, the film follows the last two decades in the life of Hyakken Uchida, a free spirited writer and teacher, highlighted by his relationship with his students who venerate him in his old age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WinStar TV & Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MADSummary: Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen year old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME INSummary: 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.Matsumura, Naohiro
Summary: "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up meets Nudge in this irresistible design method from Japan. We are living in a time when behavioral change is necessary for our health and survival. Yet we find it exceedingly difficult to transform our own habits, let alone those of other people. Enter Naohiro Matsumura, whose powerful new design method is as astonishingly simple in its logic as it is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.4 MATMaita
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAIMacha
Contents: You and the new plastic -- Never underdose -- Hey goodbye -- Only the bodies survive -- How are your windows? -- Believe.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jetset 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MACMalika.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MALBasia.
Contents: Promises (4:03) -- Run for cover (3:38) -- Time and tide (4:03) -- Freeze thaw (3:57) -- From now on (3:45) -- New day for you (4:27) -- Prime time TV (5:20) -- Astrud (4:39) -- How dare you (3:22) -- Miles away (4:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BASMakyo
Contents: The third gate of dreams.--Devadasi (Kif mix).--Chandan.--Drupak.--Shringara.--(alaap, gat, dub, om).--A curious yellow.--The second gate of dreams.--Shanti shanti.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Domination Recordings 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE MAKMariza
Contents: Trigueirinha -- Quem me dera -- Amor perfeito -- Oração -- Sou (rochedo) -- É mentira -- Semente viva -- Por tanto te amar -- Nosso tempo -- Verde limão -- Quebranto -- Oi nha mãe -- Fado errado -- Fado refúgio -- Triguerinha.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Music 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARMariza.
Summary: Master of Portugal's fado, Mariza'a debut finds her escaping with a familiar sound of her voice accompanied by her evocative guitar.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARSummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELMaker
Contents: Say I won't -- Sangria -- New Jack shake -- Monument -- Fly high -- What a day -- Sleepy eyes -- The elevens -- Baby -- Look of love, pt. 1 -- Look of love, pt. 2 -- Africumbia -- Things cannot stop forever remix -- Sundancer -- Body bash -- Break bread -- Drop dead -- The backroads -- Sleep walk.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKMaker
Contents: A new breed -- King fortune -- Stones -- Aquatic -- Good woman -- Savage fuzz-- Kush -- Love is moving -- Gangster world -- Life lesson -- Burning on -- Dead or alive -- Survivor -- Mercy -- Circle of success -- Hot box
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKLucier, Makiia
Summary: When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCMakiya, Kanan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKMaker
Contents: Walk away son -- Shout -- The love we have -- Everyone else -- Realization -- Happenings -- Everything is beautiful -- The fire that burns -- Hold 'em -- Organ prelude dub -- Colors -- Summer times -- Free -- Southside phantom -- Forge your own chains -- Come home with me -- Sneak into my bedroom -- Snake bite -- Summer times prt 2 -- Ashtray.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKMarta
Contents: Intro -- Today -- When it's going wrong -- Nowhere -- Think of you -- Moving through water -- Swimming away -- Walking -- Czarno czarny.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MARLucier, Makiia
Summary: "In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope has gone, the tale comes with a warning. Every wish demands a price. Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LUCMadia, Brianna
Summary: "In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Wojciechowska, Maia
Summary: Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1985