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Bliven, Julie Desplat, Alexandre. Lang, Susan. Sumie Sumie. Wang, Qian Julie Yang, Kelly Yang, SusieYang, Susie
Summary: Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar--but you'd never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, she is taught how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops by her immigrant grandmother. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen--and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARLang, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunset Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.6 WHISummary: 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 ISLLang, Susan.
Summary: Discusses how to install a sprinkler system, the best ways to water lawns, vegetables, and flower beds, and how much to water and how often.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunset Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0487 LANWang, Qian Julie
Summary: "Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WANG, QIAN JULIE WANSummary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLIYang, Kelly
Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YANSummary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALSumie.
Contents: Spells you -- Never wanted to be -- Let you go -- Hunting sky -- Show talked windows -- Burden of ease -- Speed in to -- Midnight glories -- Later flights -- Sailor friends
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUMWang, Qian Julie
Summary: In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." When seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. For five years she lived undocumented after immigrating with her parents to New York City. Shocked at where her family fits in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WANDesplat, Alexandre.
Contents: Painted veil -- Gnossienne no 1 / Erik Satie -- Colony club -- River waltz -- Kitty's theme -- Death convoy -- Water wheel -- Lovers -- Promenade -- Kitty's journal -- Deal -- Walter's mission -- Convent -- River waltz -- Morning tears -- Cholera -- End of love -- Funeral -- From Shanghai to London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PAISummary: In Pei, a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander faces peril both inside and outside the palace walls. But he has a secret weapon: a look-alike who can fool both Pei's enemies and the King himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHASumie
Summary: This folk album combines aspects of Japanese and Scandinavian music.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUMSummary: Thomas is back on track in a new season of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! Deliveries will go awry, new areas will be explored, and animals will end up in places they shouldn₂t be while Thomas and his friends grow from these unexpected surprises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD JUV THOSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEASummary: Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KNISummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010