Khaw, Cassandra.
Summary: By day, Rupert Wong - sorcerer, chef, former triad - prepares delicious meals of human flesh for a dynasty of ghouls in Kuala Lumpur ; by night, he's an administrator for the Ten Chinese Hells. It's a living, of sorts. When the Dragon of the South demands that Rupert investigate the murders of his daughter and her mortal husband, Rupert is caught in a war between gods that's as bewildering as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KHASummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIBean, Jonathan
Summary: A sleepless city girl imagines what it would be like to get away from snoring family members and curl up alone with one's thoughts in the cool night air under wide-open skies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BEASummary: At the height of the cold war, the world holds its breath when a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles goes missing in the Pacific. On board the vessel, the battle-tested captain and a rogue KGB agent are waging a life-and-death game of cat and mouse. With enemy forces closing in and time running out, the captain fights to keep control with nuclear armageddon hanging in the balance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHASummary: Cars: Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CARBean, Jonathan
Summary: A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BEASummary: Enter the mythical world of the Gargoyles and get to know the ancient creatures that once guarded a medieval Scottish fortress, and who now have come alive at night to protect the city of Manhattan from evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GARBean, Jonathan
Summary: "An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bean 2013Bean, Jonathan
Summary: La rêverie d'une petite fille à laquelle l'enfant peut s'identifier lui permettra de trouver plus facilement le sommeil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Circonflexe 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 BEA FRENCHSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSDee, Jonathan
Summary: "In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEEDee, Jonathan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Large Print 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEESummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUChen, Nathan
Summary: The three-time World Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the first Asian American man to stand at the highest podium in figure skating reflects on the events that led him to where he is today, in this testament to the love of family and the power of persistence, grit, and passion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Chen, Nathan
Summary: "Olympic gold medalist and three-time World Champion Nathan Chen delivers an inspirational picture book about facing your fears and finding the joy in sports, no matter the outcome. Wei has loved ice-skating ever since his first visit to the rink. He loves gliding across the ice, taking flight on jumps, and moving with the music--there's nothing else like it! But as Wei's first big competition...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHESummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: As big business takes hold of the rail industry, a local depot gang is forced to either adapt to the new managerial double-talk or take chances with receiving severance pay. Agreements set long ago are suddenly undermined by a new managing director who wipes the slate clean. Tensions mount when the men show up the the depot only to find there is no work for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAVSummary: As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: With hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever. Discovering that Scooby has a secret legacy and epic destiny, Shaggy remembers how he met the puppy and how Mystery, Inc. was formed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SCOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SCOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ScSummary: As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant saved the world thousands of times, at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they're going to have to do it for real. In Pixels, when intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth, using the video games...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PIXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PIXCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIX RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PiSummary: No one's ever really gone. Rey's journey continues, and the Skywalker saga concludes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020