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Fung, Pik-Shuen Kim, JiYu. Leng, Qin Liu, Cixin Liu, Joanne Liu, Ken Liu, Linda Liu, Marjorie. Liu, Na Qiu, XiaolongSummary: Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARQiu, 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 QiuFang, Suzhen
Summary: "Xiao Le's grandmother lives in a faraway village. A visit with Grandma is always a special event, but this time she is frail. With encouragement from his mom, Xiao Le plays with and helps Grandma. When Grandma dies shortly thereafter, Xiao Le comforts his mom--reminding her that when it rains, Grandma is washing her clothes in the sky ... and that although the Perfume Village in heaven cannot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FANLiu, 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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Summary: "With beautifully composed watercolor illustrations, Qin Leng recalls her own childhood in this story about a little girl who has always been the smallest: smallest of the family, smallest in school, smallest in a crowd. The girl faces her own set of challenges, but her loving parents and an unexpected visitor might change her perception for good."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LENSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: Unable to defend himself and his family from a ruthless enemy, Kao hires two swordsmen who needed the money for wine and women. They soon discover Kao has an evil plan of his own as their friendship and trust are tested through challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LASLiu, Cixin
Summary: Presents a collection of speculative science fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIULiu, Marjorie.
Summary: With all three informants aboard the Falcon, Han must discover the identity of the spy while completing the race, but the traitor has already started killing, and the Empire has returned for another close run-in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STASummary: In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, Mia and Wen will have to find their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANGSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONCSummary: "Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ROULiu, Cixin
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUFung, Pik-Shuen
Summary: "In Ghost Forest, the unnamed narrator is the eldest of two daughters who grew up in Vancouver with her mother, away from her father in China, who's now sick. She's twenty-four and realizing she has never told her father that she loves him. The stories and experiences that unfold through his subsequent death and memorialization are lessons and curiosities of intimacy and affection. They are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUNLiu, Cixin
Summary: Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIULiu, Joanne
Summary: In a nearly wordless picture book, Max visits an art museum where he sees paintings, sculptures, and even some art he creates, himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIULiu, Ken
Summary: "The Grace of Kings, the first book in this epic series, tells the story of two men who become friends through rebelling against tyranny and then turn against each other in defense of irreconcilable ideals. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Liu 2015Liu, Ken
Summary: "The Grace of Kings, the first book in this epic series, tells the story of two men who become friends through rebelling against tyranny and then turn against each other in defense of irreconcilable ideals. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
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Summary: "When a small pebble sees others gathering on the steps of the Museum of Rocks, he grows curious. Once inside the esteemed halls, he is shocked by what he discovers. The only rocks on display are glittering gemstones, geodes, and crystals! These beautiful stones make him wonder: Can he be special, too? Perhaps he'll find an answer in the World's Most Beautiful Gem exhibition ... or maybe, just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIULiu, Marjorie.
Summary: After a deadly start to the race, Han finds his first informant, but when he finds the next target he quickly discovers that Chewbacca and the mysterious rebel spy have an old score to settle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STALiu, Na
Summary: A young girl describes her experiences growing up in China, beginning with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIUKim, JiYu.
Summary: "Zippy the runner loves to run. Although Zippy has a skinny body, short legs, and has never won a race, he never gives up. With the encouragement from his friends, Zippy keeps running, hoping that next time he will do better"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2015