Summary: 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 ASSSummary: Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ILOSummary: 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: A female agent, attacked and left for dead, trains with a kung fu master and uses her new skills to complete some unfinished and deadly business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Bong is a highly respected hardline cop with a long history of success on dangerous cases. However, his past unexpectedly comes back to haunt him when a sting operation is attacked by a mysterious group of criminals led by Ngo, his former protégé, a talented former officer who had once respected and admired Bong. However, a terrible mistake three years prior landed him in prison, quickly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2021
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAGYe Vagabonds
Contents: Tuaim (0:43 min) -- An Island (5:07 min) -- Lord Gregory (3:56 min) -- Blue is the Eye (6:02 min) -- The Humours of Glin (4:54 min) -- Go Away and Come Back Hither (4:45 min) -- Joyáil (3:03 min) -- Her Mantle So Green (7:06 min) -- Fuaim (0:43 min) -- The Munster Jig ; Tell Her I Am (3:25 min) -- Máire Bhán (4:12 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: River Lea Records 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK YESummary: 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 NINYe, Chun
Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUNe-Yo.
Contents: Closer -- Nobody -- Single -- Mad -- Miss Independent -- Why does she stay -- Fade into the background -- So you can cry -- Part of the list -- Back to what you know -- Lie to me -- Stop this world.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NESummary: 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 ONCNe-Yo.
Contents: Champagne life -- Making a movie -- Know your name -- Telekinesis -- Crazy love (feat. Fabolous) -- One in a million -- Genuine only -- Cause I said so -- Beautiful monster -- What have I done?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEYSummary: 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 IPSummary: 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 GRAYG
Contents: Issues -- Baby momma -- Toxic -- Maniac -- How to rob a rapper (with Mozzy & D3szn) -- I dance (with Duki feat. Cuco) -- Scared money (feat. J. Cole and Moneybagg Yo) -- Go dumb (feat. H.E.R.) -- No love -- Sober (feat. Roddy Ricch & Post Malone) -- Drink to this -- No weapon (with Nas) -- Alone -- Killa Cali.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YGNe-Yo
Contents: Layin' low / feat. Zae France -- You got the body -- After party -- Handle me gently -- Don't love me -- U 2 luv / feat. Jeremih -- Push up / feat. Trippie Redd -- Proud of you -- Call me up -- What if -- Want it all or nothing -- No loot -- Stay down / feat. Yung Bleu.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP NE-Ne-Yo.
Contents: Because of you -- Crazy / (feat. Jay-Z) -- Can we chill -- Do you -- Addicted -- Leaving tonight / (feat. Jennifer Hudson)-- Ain't thinking about you -- Sex with my ex -- Angel -- Make it work -- Say it -- Go on girl.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEYNe-Yo.
Contents: Stay / feat. Peedi Peedi -- Let me get this right -- So sick -- When you're mad -- It just ain't right -- Mirror -- Sign me up -- I ain't gotta tell you -- Get down like that -- Sexy love -- Let go -- Time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES Ne-YoSummary: The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. A relationship is formed between an ex-gangster trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EXISummary: 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 Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Parasite 2020Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PaO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5318 ORESummary: A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MiSummary: In this madcap and lighthearted comedic romp, introverted optometrist Weichung begins to question his marriage with his wife Feng, upon learning of her desire to have another baby. At his sister's engagement party, Weichung bumps into an old friend, Stephen, a wedding photographer who, though also married, is living the high life of a younger, single gay man. When Stephen teases Weichung for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014