Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrEdan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EDAGoldie, Luan
Summary: "On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years. Tristan wishes Malachi...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLLiu, Jingshan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: YMAA Publication Center 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7148 LIUEdan.
Contents: Polite meeting -- Funky voltron -- I see colours -- Fumbling over words that rhyme -- Murder mystery -- Torture chamber -- Making planets -- Time outt -- Rock and roll -- Beauty -- The science of the two -- Smile -- Promised land.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EdanBlack, Roan
Summary: The herds of magical horses in Horsa have a fragile alliance, but when a prophecy stating that a yearling with a new kind of magic has been born, the four herds each elect a group of horses to find the yearling and bring balance to Horsa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BLABarry, Quan
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upons Sticks-a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as a pair of estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama somewhere in the vast Mongolian landscape, the young monk Chuluun seeks the help of his identical twin, Mun, who was recognized as a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: "A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASKuan, Diana.
Summary: Provides popular Chinese takeout recipes for appetizers, soups, main courses, noodle and rice dishes, and desserts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5951 KUAKanduth, Rian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hermes House 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 749.7 KANMalan, Rian.
Summary: A chronicle of South Africa's halting, sometimes violent, steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.06 MALSummary: The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. A relationship is formed between an ex-gangster trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EXISkrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
Summary: "Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOSummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent their talents to find employment. As they strive to acclimate to their adopted home, opportunities for first-rate vocal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOLBlack, Roan
Summary: The four Guardians continue their mission to find the yearling with a new kind of magic, but find an obstacle in the Naysayers, who are prepared to fight the Guardians to keep them from success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BLAParrish, Roan
Summary: "Greta Russakoff needs some space from her overbearing family. Truman Belvedere needs a place to heal after a devastating heartbreak. The solution is obvious: Truman and Greta decide to swap houses for the month of December. Can a change of scenery be the start of something new?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARHughes, Rian
Summary: At Jodrell Band in England Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin--a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond? Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020