Matsuoka, Tatsuhide
Summary: A frog jumps. Boing! A kitten jumps. Boi-ing! A dog jumps. Boiyyyyyyoiingg! "And I jump too--BOING!" This joyful book gets children joining in the fun of each animal's jump--sharing the sounds and actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Matsuo, Rikako
Summary: Meet cute Pokémon in a whole new way! This original illustrated storybook is perfect for moms and dads who want to introduce their little ones to the most beloved Pokémon of all time. Pikachu sets out on a voyage of exploration! The little Pokémon is looking for a home. Then it lands on a mysterious island. Pikachu begins to explore. What new friends will it meet? Join Pikachu in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE MATMatsuda, Aoko
Summary: "In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales-shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells-and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATFranky, Lily
Summary: A Japanese family that makes ends meet by shoplifting takes in a little girl they found alone on the street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHOSummary: Kirito and his friends go on a mission to seek out the legendary Holy Sword "Excalibur!" News spreads among the players that the sword has been discovered inside ALO. This was actually the very sword that Kirito and Leafa found in the underground realm of Jotunheim several months ago when they saved "Tonky." Summoning Asuna, Klein, Sinon and the others, they set off for the dungeon in Jotunheim...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOSummary: After his family was brutally murdered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado's journey as a demon slayer began. Tanjiro and his comrades embark on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train, on track to despair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME DEMSummary: Kirito and Leafa have finally reached Central Arun, the largest city in ALfheim by the foot of the World Tree. Kirito is determined to face the dangers of the Grand Quest to rescue Asuna. With the support of the Sylphs and the Cat Sidhes, will Kirito save Asuna in time or will he be crushed by Oberon's evil plans?!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Aniplex Inc. 2013
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOSummary: "Hearing rumors about an undefeated player known as Zekken, Asuna decides to mount a challenge. Zekken has been seeking opponents to duel for an ultra-fast 11-hit combo original sword skill. Not a single challenger has been successful so far. Asuna comes very close and is barely defeated. To her surprise, Zekken asks Asuna to join the guild called Sleeping Knights. What is Zekken's real...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOHubery, Julia.
Summary: Robbie the Raccoon and his friends love Father Oak and worry that he is sick when his leaves begin to turn color and fall off, but Robbie's mother explains what the change means and helps him plant some acorns as a sign of hope for spring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FICTION HuberySummary: "Before the Knight Sabers arrived in Mega Tokyo, the overworked, underfunded, and outgunned AD Police had to hold a swelling violence. Boomers, a class of intelligent androids, have the potential to free mankind from physical labor. But alas, anything that can be used can also be misused"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: AnimEigo 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tsubame Mizusaki daydreams about becoming an animator, even though her parents have forbidden her from joining their school's anime club. Solution: form a new club focused on "motion pictures" and let the creativity flow! It won't always be easy, but once everyone's in "toon" together, who knows what might happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME KEESummary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLASummary: "Arucard awakens with his thirst for vengeance stronger than ever. This bloodthirsty monster unleashes every heinous trick in his deadly repertoire while baring his fangs at an army of fiendish Nazi werewolves"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions Ltd. 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME HELSummary: Four Hispanic high school students organize a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and big dreams, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Spare 2015Isaki, Uta
Summary: A poignant coming-of-age story about a young woman coming into her own as she discovers her identity as aromantic asexual. When it comes to love, high schooler Chika wonders if she might be an alien. She's never fallen for or even had a crush on anyone, and she has no desire for physical intimacy. Her friends tell her that she just 'hasn't met the one yet,' but Chika has doubts...It's only when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ISASummary: A rare glimpse of early Japanese anime and prewar Japanese culture, The roots of Japanese anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo's Momotaro's sea eagle, the notorious war cartoon billed as Japan's first feature anime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zakka Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROOSummary: After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIRSummary: A portrait of a woman victimized by the strictures of seventeenth-century feudal Japanese society, from her beginnings as the daughter of a samurai and ending up as a prostitute.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LIFSummary: The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN NAKMyers, Tim (Tim Brian)
Summary: A famous Japanese poet is challenged by a fox to create his best haiku.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYESummary: After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. Okko discovers there are spirits who live there that only she can see; not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company and play games. The inn₂s motto is that it welcomes all and rejects none, and it is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME OKKSummary: Obsessive gambler Yumeko Jabami may know when to hold them and when to fold them, but knowing when to walk away and run has always eluded her. That's bad news at the insane Hyakkaou Private Academy, where students must gamble their fortunes, futures and lives in an endless series of competitions to determine who rules and who become slaves. Yumeko's razor-edged instincts, skills, and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022