Wojtowicz, Jen.
Summary: Shunned at school because he sprouts flowers every full moon, Rink Bowagon makes a special pair of shoes for a classmate who is able to appreciate his unique abilities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2005
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WOJSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONCMen
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MENSummary: 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
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINWojtowycz, David.
Summary: Elephant Joe and Zebra Pete grab their armor and horses in order to retrieve the king's crown from the Dark Knight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WOJSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: Examines the history of modern youth culture and the evolution of the idea of the "teenager", from the late 19th century to the beginning of the post-War period. Consists of archival film footage, diary entries, and dramatic recreations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEESummary: To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULAlborough, Jez.
Summary: Illustrations and just a few words depict how various jungle animals help a very little monkey to feel that he is tall.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Alborough 2005Cho, Zen
Summary: "A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power . . . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents - a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHOHen Ogledd
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HENRubenfeld, Jed.
Summary: A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder. Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Sen, Paul
Summary: "Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energyand entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 536 SENSummary: Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRAAerts, Jef
Summary: Adin and Dina are best friends. They live in the beautiful countryside surrounded by cherry trees. Their favorite game is to plant cherry pits around their little village - in the cracks in the sidewalk and in the flowerbeds outside the post office. Then one day Adin and his family move away to the city. Will Adin and Dina's friendship survive the new distance between them? In this beautifully...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AERCzekaj, Jef
Summary: Perfect for back-to-school and Halloween, this is a funny and sweet story about a monster's first day of school by the popular author-illustrator of Cat Secrets. Little Ghoul is nervous about her first day of school. Her mom assures her that it will be great: The teachers will be scary. The lunch will be revolting! And the other classmates will be spine-tingling and creepy. But what if Little...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blazer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CZECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CZELiljestrand, Jens
Summary: Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity crises, and revolts against hopeless parents continue to play out. Didrik is a forty-year-old media consultant whose misguided efforts to become the family hero render him a pathetic vision of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LILMcFarland, Jeni
Summary: "River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving, but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return--Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend's only black daughters, now a mother of two who'd planned to raise her own children anywhere else--their paths collide under Beth's father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFFarthing, Pen.
Summary: Describes how the author's witness to the brutality of Afghanistan's dog-fighting activities prompted his intervention and led to his relationship with a freed canine, recounting how he helped create a makeshift pound for rescued and stray dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 FARHen Ogledd
Contents: Love Time Feel -- Sky Burial -- Problem Child -- First Date -- Gwae Reged o Heddiw -- Dyma Fy Robot -- Tiny Witch Hunter -- Transport & Travel -- Welcome to Hell -- Etheldreda
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino recording Co.
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HENSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022