Summary: Inspired by the story of a real-life hero, Huo Yuanjia. When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation of a renowned martial arts champion and his family, his difficult path to redemption will bring him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters in the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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

Summary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003

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

Petry, Ann

Summary: "The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET

Summary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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

Contents: Disc 1,1944-1953. Blues (JATP) ; Oh, lady be good! (JATP) ; I've found a new baby (Lester Young) ; Trav'lin' light (Billie Holiday) ; Repetition (Charlie Parker) ; Picasso (Coleman Hawkins) ; Tonga (Machito) ; Celia (Bud Powell) ; Just friends (Charlie Parker) ; Bloomdido (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie) ; Jeep's blues (Johnny Hodges) ; Drum boogie (Gene Krupa) ; Port of Rico (Illinois...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1994

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

Petty, Kate Reed

Summary: Beryl lives in a world full of toys. But these aren't your ordinary toys--they're mechanical marvels that almost seem alive! And at the slightest touch, these toys "catalyze," that is, they merge with their owner and give them special abilities. But not Beryl. She's a Neon Knight, and Neon Knights can't catalyze. Beryl does have a special ability that no one knows about--she's an inventor who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PET

Contents: Disc 1. Some Commodore highlights: Love is just around the corner Eddie Condon (3:03) -- Strange fruit Billie Holiday (3:10) -- A good man is hard to find pt. 1 (jam session) (4:25) -- (You're some) Pretty doll Fats Waller (with Eddie Condon) (2:49) -- (Back home in) Indiana Don Byas, Slam Stewart (5:13) -- At a Georgia camp meeting Sidney Bechet (3:13) -- A handful of stars: Way down yonder in...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1997

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

Contents: Disc one: Yakety yak / Coasters -- What'd I say / Ray Charles -- Mack the knife / Bobby Darin -- Stand by me / Ben E. King -- In the midnight hour / Wilson Pickett -- I got you babe / Sonny & Cher -- When a man loves a woman / Percy Sledge -- Respect / Aretha Franklin -- Soul man / Sam & Dave -- (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay / Otis Redding -- Sunshine of your love / Cream -- Suite: Judy blue...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1998

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

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VA 50 Years

Tan, Dun

Contents: The book of timespace : winter. Piazza -- The book of timespace : spring. Sea ; Bazaar -- The book of timespace : summer. Desert ; Himalaya ; The wall -- The book of timespace : autumn. The wall (continued).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O TAN

Beeby, Betty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pearl Press 1968

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 BEE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 Beeby
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 BEE

Schwartz, Betty Ann.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: STO SCH

Summary: It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. There are a few people who have been half-century friends or acquaintances on the island, including Tisha Doughty and Joshua Brackett.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHA

Beeby, Betty.

Summary: Tells the story of the author's childhood visit to her great-grandmother's picnic table workshop in Eastport, Michigan near Grand Traverse Bay.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: B. Beeby 2004

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket BEE

Summary: Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who performed in 1930's Harlem at the famed Apollo and Cotton Club. Together again, they're dancing to standing ovations and sharing stories of the Harlem Renaissance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006

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

Summary: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CLO

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLO

Liu, Jae Soo.

Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIU

Summary: Documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUN

Sin, Kyŏng-suk.

Summary: While people vanish without a trace and others die senselessly, Jung Yoon matures into young adulthood as she loses her beloved mother, meets a once-in-a-lifetime mentor professor, forms and renews intimate friendships, and creates "forever" memories with her first love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIN

Sub Dub

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Instinct Records 1996

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

Contents: Drivers license / Olivia Rodrigo -- Lonely / Justin Bieber & Benny Blanco -- Willow / Taylor Swift-- 34 + 35 / Ariana Grande -- We're good / Dua Lipa -- My head & my heart / Ava Max -- Save your tears / The Weekend -- Take you dancing / Jason Derulo -- Prisoner / Miley Cyrus -- Streets (clean version) / Doja Cat -- Good days / SZA -- My ex's best friend / Machine Gun Kelly & Blackbear --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Bongwater (Musical group)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Shimmy Disc 1998

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

Summary: "Emmy Award-winner John Scagliotti, producer of the landmark films "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", guides us in a wondrous tour of erotic history, poetry and visual art in this point-of-view documentary on same-sex desire from ancient times to Victorian crimes. He explores how the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the growth of LGBT political power in the 1990s cleared the path for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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