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Buck, Nola. Cola Erez, Noga Kodo. Kotb, Hoda Nada Surf Shimura, Takako Takalo, Tiitu Takano, Ichigo Yoda, Hiroko.Summary: This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: A gritty, international thriller about a Danish con woman seeking revenge against a crime kingpin for killing her father is an adrenaline-filled ride across the globe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV STRSummary: 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: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRSummary: 13-year-old Mei Lee is torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, and somewhat overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter - an unfortunate reality for Mei. And as if changes to her body, interests, and relationships weren't enough, whenever Mei gets too excited, she "poofs" into a giant red panda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TURNod.
Contents: Old hotel -- Border song -- Space whale -- Dragon -- Whispy -- Walk the little man -- Wild ole Bill -- Baby you ride -- Universal (bonus trac).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smells Like Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NODZijl, Annejet van der
Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJContents: 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 BLINMakyo
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 MAKShimura, Takako
Summary: Shuichi, a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino, a girl who wants to be a boy, become friends in junior high school, where they tackle problems such as gender identity, love, social acceptance, and puberty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANGnod
Contents: Elka -- Inner Z -- They live -- 5th sun (Chaudelande version) -- A very special request -- Deadbeatdisco!!! Pt. 1 -- Deadbeatdisco!!! Pt. 2 -- Frostbitten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GNOKodo.
Contents: Zoku -- Kriuta -- Chonlima -- Issen/Oasis -- Hanano -- Ytai-Bayashi -- Ryogen-no-hi.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS/Sony Group, Inc. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN KODCola
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COLShimura, Takako
Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station. Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids. It's time for the Fujigaya Theater Festival again, and this year Akira and her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: "Shimura Takako's sensitive and charming manga series about two middle-schoolers wrestling with their gender identities continues. Faced with unwanted changes to their growing bodies, male-identified Takatsuki-san discovers the wonders of "breast binders," and female-identified Nitori-kun explores the limits of his ability to "pass." Also: the success of their performance of The Rose of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANTakalo, Tiitu
Summary: "In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story about a life turned upside down overnight: a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, the days and nights spent in an intensive care unit, and the long, painful recovery that led the artist to reflect on her life both...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TAKALO, TIITU TAKTakano, Ichigo
Summary: "Experience the world of orange from a whole new perspective, as the fate of the present and future timelines unfolds from the point of view of the ever-cheerful third wheel, Suwa Hiroto. Reuniting years later in college, Suwa and Naho's lives have been forever scarred by their experiences in high school. They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes, time is not enough"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ORAShimura, Takako
Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station! Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids... Kyoko's fiancé invites a group of her friends to join them at his family's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: "As shown in the first two volumes of this acclaimed series, Shuichi and his friend Yoshino have a secret: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy. But one day, abruptly, their secret is exposed, and the two find themselves the target of sixth-grade cruelty. Their friendship is strained, as Yoshino makes a half-hearted effort at being a 'normal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANTakano, Ichigo
Summary: "Everyone has regrets in life. So who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter informs her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Buck, Nola.
Summary: Sid sings a long song that drives Sam crazy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BUCErez, Noga
Contents: KTD (0:10) -- Cipi (3:07) -- Views (2:45) -- You so done (2:41) -- End of the road (2:40) -- Bark loud (3:13) -- Kid (4:11) -- Story (3:11) -- Knockout (2:45) -- No news on TV (3:06) -- Fire Kites (3:11) -- Candyman (2:19) -- Switch me off (3:15).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EREKotb, Hoda
Summary: Shares the inspirational stories of six individuals who persevered in the face of devastating life challenges, from a woman who became a health advocate after losing 340 pounds to a civilian hero who saved a burn victim on September 11th only to discoverthat two family members had died in the tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.24 KOTNada Surf
Contents: Concrete bed -- Do it again -- Always love -- What is your secret? -- Your legs grow -- All is a game -- Blankest year -- Comes a time -- In the mirror -- Armies walk -- Imaginary friends.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Barsuk Records 2005