Summary: Fanda is an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife, Emilie, and son who want him to make some serious about the future, he ignores their nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure. Aided by a pal, Fanda keeps his acting skills sharpened by pretending he is a retired opera star in the market for an opulent country estate. When he fakes his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AUTJimi.
Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIASummary: Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALLJiha, Park.
Contents: Arrival -- Thunder shower -- Easy / poem & read by Dima El Sayed -- Pause -- Philos -- Walker : in Seoul -- When I think of her -- On water
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitter beat 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE JIHKim, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMAkagawa, Jirō
Summary: An incident occurred at a wedding hall where Akiko Nagato was working part-time. The bride disappears just before the ceremony, and there is a corpse in the wedding dress. Akiko shows her curiosity and pursues the case. Youth humor mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKAJiha, Park.
Contents: At Dawn -- Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans -- Light Way -- A Day In ... -- The Way Of Spiritual Breath -- Restlessly Towards -- Nightfall Dancer -- Temporary Inertia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tak:Til/Glitterbeat 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE JIHJiwa, Bernadette
Summary: "'People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?' Dublin 1965. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems. Joan lives in the shadow of a secret - the couple's decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIWLiu, Jing
Summary: "A great way to learn about China''s vast history!"--Amy Tan, author ofThe Joy Luck Club Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional periods between dynasties... An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history."--School Library Journal "The lucid, economical text makes one eager for the successive volumes."--Booklist "The combination of silhouettes--often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Bridge Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951 LIUMa, Jian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.1045 MAJiha, Park
Contents: Pam ŭl to wa = Throughout the night... (5:00) -- Sigan ŭi ch'ukchŏk = Accumulation of time (6:40) -- Communion (6:56) -- Tal ege sŏjŏn hae tŭrŭn sori = Sounds heard from the moon (9:05) -- Mŏrŏjin kan'gyŏk ŭi kŭrium = The longing of the yawning divide (3:17) -- All Soul's Day (9:05) -- Maju anjŭn ch'ŏt maŭm = The first time I sat across from you (with sax. version) (8:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN JIHSummary: A dysfunctional family, including a college professor, his long-estranged son and the lover they both shared are reunited. Two petty pickpockets attempt to rob a black belt in karate. A dimwitted soccer hooligan's wife buys a baby in a pawnshop. These are just a few of the unconnected strangers who find a common connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UPSummary: A bewitching fairy tale about a young girl's coming of age. Valerie discovers the world is not what it seems after she gets a pair of magical earrings. Her quaint little village is actually a haven for blood-sucking vampires. Her grandmother is really an evil old crone. The local farmers are lechers, and the town's priest harbors strange desires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VALMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Contents: Requiem K626 -- Symphony no. 36 in C major K425 : 'Linz'.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MOZJina, Devika,.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People JohnsonMa, Jian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATaniguchi, Jirō.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DISAkagawa, Jirō
Summary: Ayumi, a second-year college student, was invited to a wedding reception by her senior at the club, Tamura, but it seems strange. On top of that, Tamura left behind saying, "It's just like that, but the bride is another woman," and went to Honeymoon. And murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKATaniguchi, Jirō
Summary: "Two defeated samurai are exiled from Japan during the Boshin War of 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold. Ending up in Crow Territory in North America, they encounter Crazy Horse, chief of the Oglalas, and soon form a profound friendship and respect for each other's cultures. This respect was felt so deeply that the two Japanese travelers end up fighting alongside the Oglalas at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare/Ponent Mon 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKYHorikoshi, Jirō
Summary: A record of the success of valuable technological development, in which the chief designer of the famous Zero Fighter, which remains in the history of aviation in the world, clearly spelled out the process from idea to completion based on the records at that time. It was a perfect crystallization of foresight, creativity, and constant effort. "We, the people of technology, should not be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa Shoten 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 HORMa, Jian
Summary: "Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting people's private dreams with President Xi's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. He has an impressive office, three properties and a bevy of mistresses texting him night and day. But just as Ma Daode is putting the finishing touches to his plan for a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATaniguchi, Jirō.
Summary: "Middle-aged businessman Hiroshi Nakahara has been catapulted back into his life as a 14 year-old but with all his adult memories and knowledge intact. As he settles into his past in a way that only someone who has seen the future can, he experiences again the friendship, the exhilaration and the love of youth. But subtle changes occur in his history and, as the summer break reaches its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare/Ponent Mon 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DISTsu, Jing
Summary: "After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire, with literacy reserved for the elite few. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's greatest and most daunting challenge was a linguistic one. Just as important as China's technological and industrial advances and political maneuvers was the century-long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.11 TSUSummary: A young restaurant worker does whatever it takes to become a millionaire, only to realize that by accomplishing his goal he has wound up in prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009