Summary: "In this imperfect world, the stories are what make it beautiful. Journeying the land and visiting the unique countries all around is Kino and her talking motorcycle, Hermes. Together, the two travel from place to place, experiencing new cultures and people. But despite how enjoyable some lands may be, Kino will only stay in each country for three days or less with just enough time to gather...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME KINSummary: The year: 2017. Humanity has built settlements throughout the solar system to begin the conquest of unknown lands with new challenges and new dangers. This is the setting for our story. When the Martian settlement is attacked without warning by an immense insect-like monster, a colossal silver humanoid appears to battle the beast. The Super GUTS Team is a seven-person fighting force, as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ULTSummary: There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLSummary: The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSagawa, Shirley
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.408 SAGJigsaw Seen
Contents: Bertha brilliance -- David Hart's name of song -- Melancholy morning -- Tonight's episode -- Choreography killed the cat -- Where the action isn't -- Cave Canem -- You look like a lot of people -- Crazy legs -- Fruitbasket upset -- Jubilee
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vibro-phonic Recordings 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JIGOda, Eiichir¿
Summary: As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber{u2026}at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world! Vivi's Adventure: With all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2015
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Summary: "From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 130k followers on Instagram, comes a never-before-seen collection of incriminating short stories about exes, murder, friendship, therapy, anxiety, Hufflepuff, sucking at things, freaking out about things, calming down momentarily, melodrama, wrinkles, pettiness, and other wonderful delights"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Moss, Marissa.
Summary: Traces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOSSummary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: "In an empire ruled by fear, the people's only hope is the ulitmate weapon: Zatoichi--a blind, nomadic samurai whose sword has made him a hero and whose courage has made him a legend! Determined to help the desperate residents of a village, Zatoichi seeks justice through revenge"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The inhabitants of a small Japanese seaside town come under the influence of a strange force that causes an obsession with spiral forms. One by one, the townspeople fall under its spell until they begin descending on a self-inflicted spiral of terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN UZUSummary: Lain is accused of stealing people's secrets and is abandoned by her friends and family only to learn that her virtual self in the Wired is the one causing trouble for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SERSummary: Watch Rudyard Kipling's world famous novel, The Jungle Book, come alive in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family. Join young Mowgli, and his animal friends Bagheera and Baloo, on their adventures in the wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PlumTum 2013
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Summary: There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a 13 year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: "I just abandoned my body....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SERSummary: The third film in the Animerama Trilogy. The setting is a village in medieval France. On the day of their wedding, Jean and Jeanne visit the lord of the village to pay a tribute. Instead of receiving the tribute, the lord and his vassals rape her, and the marriage is marked with misery and unhappiness. One day, a tiny creature visits Jeanne, an evil spirit. In time, the spirit seduces her body...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BELSummary: Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARHung, Tran Anh
Summary: In 1960s Tokyo, the death of Kizuki has an influence on the relationship of his best friend Toru, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NORSasuga, Yu
Summary: While swarms of terraformars close in on Shokichi and the others as they try to rejoin Akari's group, reinforcements from China are arriving on Mars, but it's uncertain if their mission objective to rescue or to exterminate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERSummary: It's been six months since the vent that trapped thousands of players in the online game world of Elder Tales and the situation is far from secure. The people of the land are engaged in open warfare against the goblin armies of Zantleaf. Minami spies are infiltrating the populace. And even with the support and guidance of the Round Table Alliance, the cost of sustaining the City of Akihabara is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentai Filmworks 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME LOGOnishi, Junko.
Contents: Piano quintet suite / Onishi (10:21) -- Peggie's blue skylight / Mingus (9:22) -- Interlude 1 / Schumann ; arr. Onishi (1:27) -- Naturally (10:35) ; Interlude 2 (0:51) / Onishi -- The tropic of capricorn / Onishi, Hayashi (9:29) -- Tony / Onishi (3:20) -- Orange was the color of her dress, then blue silk / Mingus (7:56) -- Take the A train / Ellington (6:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Notes Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ONISummary: Chronicles the Pearson family across the decades, from Jack and Rebecca as young parents in the 1980s to their 37 year old kids Kevin, Kate and Randall searching for love and fulfillment in the present day. This grounded, life affirming dramedy reveals how the tiniest events in people's lives impact who they become, and how the connections they share with each other can transcend time,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD THICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: Takada is an aging Japanese fisherman who has been estranged from his son for many years. When the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. When his son refuses to see him, Rie gives him a videotape about the work his son was doing on a documentary film in a remote region of China's Yunnan province. Still troubled by the relationship, Takada...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007