Qiu, Peipei
Summary: "Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan's wartime "comfort women" have provoked international debate in the past two decades. Yet there has been a dearth of first-hand accounts available in English from the women abducted and enslaved by the Japanese military in Mainland China -- the major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Chinese Comfort Women features the personal stories of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5351 QIUPipe, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stargazer Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR Purple Pipe 2006Pipe, Jim
Summary: In the form of a diary of a passenger, describes the Titanic, including accomodations for first- through third-class passengers, the crew, the inner workings of the ship, her maiden voyage, and the events of the night the doomed ship sank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.9 PIPPipe, Jim
Summary: From the earliest human-like apes to the use of stone-age tools, from the discovery of fire to the dawn of agriculture and civilization, this book explores how the earliest people lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 569.8 PIPPipe, Jim
Summary: Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe what it would be like to live without the cell phone and describes how people managed to communicate in the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 384 PIPSummary: When a shy small-town boy heads to Beijing for violin lessons, he discovers a new world filled with first loves, lasting friendships ... and a secret that will change his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOGWerker, Kim Piper
Summary: "Fans of DIY projects and crafts will conquer their fear of failure and create their own masterpieces using this fun and inspiring handbook. Get Crafty. Make Great Stuff. Be Creative! The number one fear of all creative types--crafters, DIYers, makers, artists--is that failure lurks right around the corner. Crafty blogger and creativity guru Kim Piper Werker urges everyone to pick up their pen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 WERQiu, Xiaolong
Summary: In line for the top position of the Shanghai Police Department, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the investigation of a major party member's son, whose suspicious suicide in the face of corruption charges forces Chen to make a difficult choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QIUQiu, Xiaolong
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QiuXiu Xiu
Contents: Hi -- Joey's song -- Beauty towne -- Honey-suckle -- I luv abortion -- The oldness -- Chimney's afire (Mickensian suicide) -- Gul mudin -- Born to suffer -- Factory girl -- Smear the queen -- Black drum machine.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polyvinyl 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK XIUXiu Xiu
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK XIUXiu Xiu
Contents: Don diasco -- I broke up -- Luber -- Hives hives -- Dr. Troll -- Over over -- Anne dong -- Suha -- Poe Poe -- Homonculus -- Tonite and today (What chu' talkin' 'bout).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Will It Burn Music 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK XIUFu, Peimei.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zhongguo peng ren bu xi ban 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5951 FuSummary: In September 2003, freelance Iraqi cameraman Yunis Khatayer Abbas was arrested and accused of planning to kill Tony Blair. This documentary is a fascinating portrait of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRILiu, Bin
Summary: Kites and China are practically synonymous, since these childhood toys were originally invented there before becoming popular around the world. For over 2000 years, kites have been a common sight in China, from the imperial court to the common people, and over that time period the craftsmanship of the kite has been perfected-and includes a diversity and richness of styles. In Chinese Kites,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Better Link Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.15 LIUXiu Xiu (Musical group)
Contents: Gray death -- Chocolate makes you happy -- Apple for a brain -- House sparrow -- Hyunhye's theme -- Dear God, I hate myself -- Secret motel -- Falkland Rd. -- The Fabrizio Palumbo retaliation -- Cumberland Gap -- This too shall pass away (for Freddy) -- Impossible feeling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kill Rock Stars 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK XIUSummary: A father's teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of ten years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission, risking everything, including his family and his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SNICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNI RATED PG-13Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLLiu, Jia
Summary: "When Merlin the owl tries to make a friend, it takes a little more practice than he expected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUSummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One man discovers that aliens are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI THEXiu Xiu (Musical group)
Contents: Laura Palmer's theme -- Into the night -- Audrey's dance -- Packard's vibration -- Nightsea wind -- Blue Frank/Pink room -- Sycamore tree -- Harold's theme -- Dance of the dream man -- Falling -- Love theme farewell -- Josie's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polyvinyl Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK XIUHo, Joanna
Summary: "...a moving text about the life and work of social activist and artist, Ai Weiwei. Told in...lyrical writing, this story shines a light on Ai Weiwei's journey and focuses on Safe Passage, his exhibition of thousands of life jackets at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Moved by the life jackets discarded on the shores of the Greek Island of Lesbos by people seeking safety far from home, Ai Weiwei created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AISummary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIL