Summary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSamura, Hiroaki.
Summary: These stories are told with the same bold, kinetic art style and brilliantly paced storytelling that Samura's Blade of the Immortal epic is famous for. The main offering, "Ohikkoshi," follows the turbulent paths of several twenty-something art students as they fall in love, fall in lust, play in rock bands, ride motorbikes, eat, sleep (together), and try to avoid making life decisions while...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OHIGivhan, Robin.
Summary: "Conceived as a fundraiser for the restoration of King Louis XIV's palace, the world's elite gathered in Versailles' grand theater to view a fashion extravaganza of the best that French and American designers had to offer, while being entertained by LizaMinnelli and Josephine Baker. What they saw would forever alter the history of fashion. At the Battle of Versailles five Americans--Oscar de la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643 GIVGivhan, Jennifer
Summary: "When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Stone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIVGrehan, Meg
Summary: Immy has never been as deeply in love as she is with Claudia. Meanwhile, the forbidden thirst for blood runs deep in Immy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GREWilson, Gahan.
Summary: Presents the complete collection of Gahan Wilson's cartoons and comics from "Playboy" magazine, along with a short stories and an interview with the illustrator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2009
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3 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WIL VOL 1Call number: 741.5 WIL VOL 2
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Kropp, Göran.
Summary: A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KROGahan, Dave
Contents: Shine -- You owe me -- Tempted -- All of this and nothing -- One thing -- Don't cry -- Lately -- The last time -- My sun.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GAHGahan, Dave
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GAHWilson, Gahan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1994
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILTanaka, H. (Hiroaki)
Summary: Introduces the Japanese method of slow jogging, designed to minimize the risk of injury, and increase calorie burning while maintaining a smiling pace, and landing on mid-foot instead of the heel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his friends in order to find the greatest treasure ever left by the legendary Pirate, Gol D Roger: the famous mystery treasure named 'One Piece.' In this collection, Luffy's impulsive attack on Gecko Moria ends up costing the rubber-man his shadow! Luckily, his skeleton friend, Brook, will lend a hand in exchange for a little help defeating a zombie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ONESummary: The harrowing Thriller Bark arc reaches its brutal end with a superhuman slugfest! Luffy, battered beyond belief, pushes his body past the breaking point as he seeks to save his friends and deliver the decisive blow against Gecko Moria. When the dust clears, only Zoro and Sanji are left standing to protect their fallen captain from the brutish Bartholomew Kuma.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Mishima, Yukio
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: M.E. Sharpe 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISSummary: Sachi struggles with jealousy as Erika and Hiro fall for Nagi, who is just totally confused. While his feelings start to get in the way of his grades, his personal life's never been more fun! Can he figure out a way to have it all?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME COUSummary: When the truck slammed into Kei Nagai's body, he should have died instantly. Instead, the high-school student finds himself resurrected, with all of his wounds somehow healed. However, Kei's real problems are just starting. Now revealed to be an Ajin, one of a mysterious new breed of demi-human that have begun appearing around the world, he's been marked with an international bounty, and in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentai Filmworks 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME AJISummary: When Yuko Yoshida wakes up one morning to discover that she's sprouted horns and a tail, she learns something that her mother has been meaning to tell her. That battle between the Light and Dark that's been going on since the dawn of time? Well, Yuko's family are the bad guys. So now, Yuko has to defeat a local magical girl to win back some of her family's vanquished power so they can afford to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME DEMNeuschwander, Cindy.
Summary: When Sir Cumference and his wife, Lady Di of Ameter, host a massive surprise birthday party for the king, they must figure out quick a way to count all the guests that are in attendance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2009
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE NEUKhan, Ali
Contents: Ali dum -- Shahabaz kalander -- Bhangra -- Jive lal -- Damadam -- Hay ni allah -- Takbir -- Naina -- Sagina -- Alaap jyot.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: City of Tribes 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT KHAKhan, Chaka.
Contents: Ain't Nobody (4:41) -- Papillon (Aka Hot Butterfly) (4:08) -- Tell Me Something Good (Live Album Version) W/Longer Fadeu (3:35) -- I Feel For You (5:43) -- I Know You, I Live You (4:27) -- I'm Every Woman (4:03) -- Love Me Still (3:28) -- The End Of A Love Affair (5:13) -- And The Melody Still Lingers On (Night In Tunisia) (5:04) -- Through The Fire (4:47) -- What Cha' Gonna Do For Me (3:53) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 1983
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Khan, Hena
Summary: In this counting book, a young boy introduces some of the basic principles of Islam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2022
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE KHAKhan, Hena.
Summary: In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Khan, Joshua.
Summary: "Thorn, a boy sold into slavery who must serve the royalty of Castle Gloom for a year and a day to earn his freedom, and Lilith Shadow, the 13-year-old ruler of Gehenna, who is forbidden to practice the magic that is her heritage, join forces to solve themurders taking place in Gehenna"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2016