Summary: Detective Maiku Hama navigates the Yokohama underworld with super cool threads and two-fisted street smarts. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he's in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant on the threshold of Yokohama's gutter, Hama's client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOSSummary: In Treasure Town, life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White, two street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. When foreign investors want to destroy the town and turn it to an amusement park, they face their greatest adversaries yet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEKRama
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Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 RAMAUrana, Kei
Summary: Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich, who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment-exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GACMurata, Sayaka
Summary: "As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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Summary: "With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC MURSummary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRRama
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Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy of the U.S.A. 1986
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Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURKratt, Martin
Summary: "Meet Chris and Martin Kratt, two brothers who turned a love of animals into an amazing career! They have produced, written, directed, and starred in several PBS series and specials over the years. Most recently, they have become known for PBS's smash hit animated show Wild Kratts. Along the way, they traveled the world and encountered incredible creatures, all while combining science education...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHAAnkalikar, Arati.
Contents: Alap -- Vilambit khayal 'hovan laagi saanjh -- Vilambit khahal -- Pilarwa aa, aa ja re'khayal in teentaal -- Meera bhajan 'mare ghar aao'.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sense World Music 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN AnkalChatterjee, Pratap
Summary: "9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history, but also unleashed electronic spying by the government on a massive worldwide scale. In a wholly original and engaging telling, Verax ("truth-teller" and one of Edward Snowden's code names) recounts the full story of American electronic surveillance post 9/11, in brilliant comics form" -- provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 CHAKurta, Allen
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 KURMassey, Sujata
Summary: India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MASThackeray, Beata.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 ThackerayUnita, Yumi
Summary: "As an impromptu dad to Rin, his late grandfather's illegitimate child, Daikichi Kawachi has experienced his share of firsts while caring for his little aunt (?). Now it's Daikichi's turn to battle the initial wave of separation anxiety as Rin leaves the nest-- for her first day of elementary school! Rin's elementary school isn't the only place with new faces, either. Daikichi's office is also...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNArana, Marie
Summary: "A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 ARAChatterjee, Pratap.
Contents: Introduction: A revolution in military affairs -- Riding the catfish to Anaconda -- Early days of Brown & Root -- Brothers in arms : Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld -- Cheney at the helm -- The birth of LOGCAP -- Supporting the War on Terror -- Operation Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO) -- Corruption in Kuwait -- Camp Anaconda -- Keep on truckin' -- The whistle-blowers -- Investigation and punishment --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 CHAGryta, Thomas
Summary: "How could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic corporation-suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?"-- Since its founding in 1892, General Electric has been more than just a corporation: it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers. GE electrified America, from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 GRYArato, Rona.
Summary: In a story based on the life of the author's husband, little Paul and his family, Hungarian Jews, are sent to Bergen-Belsen, survive many hardships, are put on a train to nowhere, and rescued by American soldiers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARABraga, Alice
Summary: After her drug-dealer boyfriend is murdered in Mexico, Teresa Mendoza escapes to Dallas where she works to become leader of the cartel and plans her revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUEGuadalupe Plata
Contents: Tormenta -- Huele a rata -- Calle 24 -- Hoy como Perro -- Serpientes negras -- Filo de navaja -- Mecha corta -- Agua turbia -- Hueso de gato negro -- El paso del gato -- Tengo el diablo en el cuerpo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Everlasting Records 2016