Summary: An exciting new documentary about the world of comic books told through interviews of the creators, artists, writers, collectors, store owners, indie publishers, and the passionate fans who have made it the phenomenon that it is today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2016
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Summary: "He's the most deceptive deity in the Marvel-Verse -- whether he's playing the villain, the hero or just an agent of chaos! He's Loki -- and these are some of his legendary stories! In an all-time classic, Loki pits his brother Thor against the Silver Surfer for a cosmic battle royale! Then, take a fresh view of the founding of the accursed Avengers, through the eyes of the God of Lies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOKMichelinie, David.
Summary: Iron Man faces his most untouchable foe in criminal industrialist Justin Hammer and his literal army of super-villains! But can the Armored Avenger overcome an even more implacable personal demon, invulnerable to technology or wealth?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MICContents: 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 BLINGarber, Romina
Summary: After revealing her hybrid nature to Septimus beyond her pack, Manu hopes that superstition and suspicion do not prevent her and her friends from finding allies in their fight for a better future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GARRussell, Romina
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Romina Russell's epic sci-fi fantasy series ZODIAC reaches its breathtaking conclusion with THIRTEEN RISING, the highly anticipated fourth and final novel. The master has been unmasked. Rho's world has been turned upsidedown. With her loved ones in peril and all the stars set against her, can the young Guardian from House Cancer muster the strength to keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUSRussell, Romina
Summary: Rho is ready to live a quiet life until Ochus appears to her, bearing a cryptic message that leaves her with no choice but to fight and she embarks on a journey through a new set of Houses that reveal much more about the Galaxy and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUSSummary: Dave (Kick-Ass) decides to start the world's first superhero team with Mindy (Hit Girl). Unfortunately, Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, and she's forced to retire. Dave must join forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes. Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world's first super villain, The Mother...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KICSummary: Ordinary teenager and rabid comic-book geek Dave Lizewski captures the imagination of the public when he becomes the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass. After he teams up with the fearless father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, the three work together to take down the criminal empire of local Mafioso Frank D'Amico. But when D'Amico's son Chris is reborn as Red Mist, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KICTomita, Isao
Contents: Also sprach Zarathustra : opening / Strauss (2:13) -- The planets : Saturn, the bringer of old age / Holst (3:49) -- The rite of spring : dance of the young girls / Stravinsky (3:13) -- Cranes in their nest (Japanese traditional) (4:36) -- Daphnis and Chloe suite no. 2 : general dance / Ravel (3:50) -- The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams (7:15) -- Close encounters of the third kind / Williams...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Red Seal 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TOMTomita, Isao
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE TOMTomita, Isao
Contents: Star wars, main title / Williams (3:04) -- Space fantasy / R. Strauss ; Wagner ; Tomita (9:12) -- The unanswered question / Ives (6:19) -- Peer Gynt. Solveig's song / Grieg (4:48) -- Hora staccato / Dinicu ; Heifetz (3:28) -- The sea named Solaris / J.S. Bach ; Tomita (12:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records 1978
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TOMRussell, Romina
Summary: Believing the Marad terrorist group is still out there in spite of peace efforts throughout the Zodiac Galaxy, Rho joins a new political party before discovering horrifying links between the party and her late mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUSSummary: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking viewers back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA STRNavai, Ramita.
Summary: "Rich, absorbing, and exotic, City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city's southern districts. Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955 NAVNavai, Ramita.
Summary: This is Real Tehran: A City that is hidden from view and rarely written about, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and subterfuge. It is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is uploaded to the Internet and sold in the bazaars. Plotted around the city's great central thoroughfare,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 955 NAVClaremont, Chris
Summary: Relive the first journey into the dystopian future of 2010. The surviving members of the X-Men, held prisoner like all mutants in a concentration camp guarded by the mutant-hunting robots called Sentinels, hatch a plan to change history by telepathically sending the consciousness of Kate (nee Kitty) Pryde 30 years back in time to temporarily occupy her teenage self and convince the X-Men of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 XMERomito, Dee
Summary: Kenzie Rhines doesn't have a home she has too many. Her dad s job keeps them flying around the country, which means home is whatever fancy hotel they're currently staying in and school takes place 30,000 feet in the air. And since it's just the two of them, she has no choice but to be his travel partner. Kenzie loves the constant adventures, but she wouldn't mind planting her feet in one place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin M!X 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: New Year is a coming of age comedy about death, pregnancy, and a big party! The random murder of a gas station attendant is the catalyst for lovers Jason, a student who lives at home, and Allison, an unemployed graduate, to take stock of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Doublesee Productions, Inc. 2012
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Summary: Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113 (1964-1969); "Captain America...Commie Smasher" from Captain America #78 (1954). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CAPBendis, Brian Michael.
Summary: "The Red Skull's daughter has unleashed an evil as old as Midgard itself: The Serpent has risen to reclaim Earth, recruiting seven of its most powerful superhumans as his advance guard, the Worthy. The result is all-out action in classic Avengers style! The Thing vs. Red Hulk! Spider-Woman vs. Hulk! Steve Rogers vs. Master Man! And Squirrel Girl vs. the Red Skull's Nazi hordes?! Plus: What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 AVESummary: Detective Maiku Hama navigates the Yokohama underworld with super cool threads and two-fisted street smarts. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he's in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant on the threshold of Yokohama's gutter, Hama's client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOSGarber, Romina
Summary: When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GARRussell, Romina
Summary: When a violent blast strikes the moons of Cancer, sending its ocean planet off-kilter and killing thousands of citizens, Rhoma Grace, a sixteen-year-old student from House Cancer, must convince twelve worlds to unite as one Zodiac against Ophiuchus, the exiled thirteenth Guardian of Zodiac legend, who has returned to exact his revenge across the Galaxy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014