Summary: 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
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Place a hold to request this item.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 LIUSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Summary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROASummary: 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 ISLSummary: Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, who was a small-time imposter. Bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LETSummary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSen, Amartya
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 SENSin, 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 SHINSun Ra.
Contents: India (4:49) -- Sunology (5:40) -- Advice to medics (2:02) -- Super blonde (2:35) -- Soft talk / Julian Priester (2:41) -- Sunology part II (7:05) -- Kingdom of not (5:32) -- Portrait of the living sky (1:48) -- Blues at midnight (6:30) -- El is a sound of joy (3:56) -- Springtime in Chicago (3:51) -- Medicine for a nightmare (2:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SUNSen, Chaitali
Summary: In The Pathless Sky, Chaitali Sen conjures a world in which a nation’s political turmoil, its secret history and growing social unrest turn life into a fragile and capricious thing and love into a necessary refuge to be defended at all cost. A world not unlike the one we live in. John, a hapless young student with a potentially brilliant academic career ahead of him, and Mariam, a shy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENSen, Sharmila
Summary: At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, SHARMILA SENSin, Kyŏng-suk
Summary: Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom brilliantly images the life of Yi Jin, an orphan who would fall under the affections of the Empress and become a jewel in the late Joseon Court. When a novice French diplomat arrives for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty's magnificent culture, then at its zenith....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shin 2018Summary: 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 ASSSun Ra
Contents: I am an instrument -- I am strange -- Chicago USA ; Spaceship lullaby (the Nu Sounds with Sun Ra) -- Daddy's gonna tell you no lie (the Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra and Arkestra) -- A foggy day (the Nu Sounds with Sun Ra and Arkestra) -- I'm coming home ; Last call for love (Billie Hawkins with Sun-Ra and his orchestra) -- Soft talk ; Super blonde (Sun-Ra and his Arkistra [sic]) -- Saturn ; Call...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a remote monastery high up in the mountains, an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he must lead his disciples away from their past ties to the outside world and its rapidly changing values, and point them toward their quest for enlightenment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bae Yong-kyun Productions [production company 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHYSummary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Parasite 2020Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARKuti, Seun.
Contents: Many things / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (8:01) -- Na oil / Lekan Animashaun (8:09) -- Don't give that shit to me / Adedimeji Fagbemi (9:21) -- Fire dance / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (8:09) -- Think Afrika / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (6:49) -- Mosquito song / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (7:23) -- African problems / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (5:01)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Disorient Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KUTSin Fang.
Contents: Random Haiku generator -- Love will leave you cold -- Wasted -- Black screen -- Slowly -- Citrus light -- Tennis -- Space -- Used & confused -- Go to sleep boy -- The sun will go out -- Dream team part kids.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Morr Music 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SINKuti, Seun
Contents: Last revolutionary -- Black times (feat. Carlos Santana) -- Corporate public control department (C.P.C.D.) -- Kuku kee me -- Bad man lighter (B.M.L.) -- African dreams -- Struggle sounds -- Theory of goat and yam.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KUTSen, Amartya Kumar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.01 SENSummary: Mulan, a young girl who does not fit in well with traditional society, disguises herself as a soldier to take her father's place in the Imperial army when the Huns invade China.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUL RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MOVIE MULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MuSun Araw.
Contents: CD. New Binghi (2:26) -- Happy song (6:50) -- Food clothing and shelter (6:53) -- Sunshine (5:19) -- Jungle (7:05) -- Invocation (6:03) -- Thanks and praise (8:23) -- DVD. Icon eye / Killer Films ; Search Party.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RVNG Intl. 2012