Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Stansel, Ian

Summary: "A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband's killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family. When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother's wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Summary: "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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ROU

Summary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRA

Van Tassel, Wesley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Allworth Press 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 VAN

Summary: Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VAN

Szarkowski, John.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 SZA

Summary: Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Children 2018

Shantel.

Contents: Tell me why is it oh so hard to be so lovely -- Philosophy -- Where the story ends, life begins -- Intro -- Letter from the editor -- Ding dong ding -- I am exactly what you are looking for -- Tosca session -- I am not afraid -- Really good photo --

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Studio K7, Essay Recordings 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SHA

Starset

Contents: The order -- Satellite -- Frequency -- Die for you -- Ricochet -- Starlight -- Into the unknown -- Gravity of you -- Back to the Earth -- Last to fall -- Bringing it down -- Unbecoming -- Monster -- Telepathic -- Everglow.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STA

Yan, Lan

Summary: "In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family's story, she serves up an intimate account of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YAN

Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Summary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUM

Dan Trudell Trio

Contents: Fishin' again -- Chocolate martini -- Hip hop Bach -- Horse -- Holler back -- Glow worm -- Scream.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TRU

Summary: A documentary based on a series of interviews with Paul Bowles shortly before his death and anecdotes provided by his friends and collaborators including Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Walters, Ruth Fainlight, Edmund White, William Burroughs, Francis Bacon and many others --Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features [distributor] 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAU

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WU

Tian

Summary: "Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIA

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC

Summary: Little big league: An inspiring family comedy adventure about a boy's determination to put the fun back into baseball after inheriting the Minnesota Twins.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ki

Summary: "Centuries after a fearsome race of giants was defeated in battle and banished to a sky kingdom, a young farmhand named Jack ... unwittingly causes an enormous beanstalk to take root. In the process, his beloved Princess Isabelle is carried miles into the clouds, straight into the clutches of the bloodthirsty giants. Now, with the help of the king's military commander ... this unlikely hero...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie Jack

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAR

Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IP

Summary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD QUI

Summary: 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: 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2017

Summary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWI

Back to Top