Yip-Williams, Julie
Summary: "Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kongand, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YIP-WILLIAMS, JULIE YIPSummary: 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: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAIYap, Jules
Summary: "Jules Yap and the contributors to her wildly popular website IkeaHackers.net show you how to transform affordable IKEA products into creative new furniture and more. With clear instructions and easy-to-follow photos" -- page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684 YAPWilliams, Pip
Summary: "Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAMWilliams, Pip
Summary: "It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them-but as she folds and gathers pages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WilliamsWilliams, Pip
Summary: "The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WILSummary: Based on the true story of Mother Teresa, the film explores the life's work of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Her selfless devotion to helping the poor changed hearts, transformed lives and inspired millions throughout the world. Told through a series of personal letters written to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LET RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeYi, Susie
Summary: Squash and Ginny are on the case! The cats hightail it back to the Spirit World to investigate a shocking mystery. The Dragon Witch's magical artifact collection has gone missing, and the whole forest is covered in mysterious slime. Can they stop their enemy and restore peace to the realm, or is the Spirit World destined to be covered in slime forever?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHAContents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FROWilliams, Susie
Summary: "This beautifully illustrated title explores the wonderful world of the slithering snail. Snails have a silvery, sticky mucus that they leave behind as they move. One of the slowest creatures on Earth, they move at a top speed of 45 miles per hour (1 cm per second). Find out more fascinating snail facts in this colorful book."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 594 WILWilliams, Julie (Julie A.)
Summary: Offers advice on navigating the transition from elementary to middle school, from teacher to friends, schoolwork to homework, and lockers to classrooms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2004
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Summary: Searching for the Goblet of Infinity to quench their thirst after unlimited snacks, Squash and Ginny meet a unibear who claims the Dragon Witch has stolen it, and they soon discover everything is not exactly what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Yi, Susie
Summary: One day when their human leaves for work, Squash and Ginny find themselves in the most unfortunate predicament: without snacks. With a little help from a magical portal, the two cats embark on a quest to find ingredients for a potion that will produce unlimited goodies. At first, their mission doesn't seem so tough. It takes them on a boat race across Mewmaid Ocean and a hot air balloon ride...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Middle schooler Yuna, born in America to Korean parents, struggles with feeling too Korean to fit in with her American peers at school. Frustrated with her fractured life and desperate to fit in, Yuna makes a wish on paper stars to return to Korea so she might feel normal somewhere. When the unexpected death of her halmoni (grandmother) makes Yuna's wish come true, Yuna is wracked with guilt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIDee, Janie
Summary: When Helena performs a miraculous deed for the King of France, she claims the conceited Bertram as her husband in payment, but Bertram agrees only if she fulfills two conditions that he thinks are impossible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ALLH Williams J Judge
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell/Feldman 1912
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMH Williams,J Judge
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell & Co., Ltd. 1912
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWilliams, Jamie
Summary: A circus talent scout is led on a merry chase when he tries to trap Mowgli, with the help of a hunter and snake charmer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RUDHandsome Boy Modeling School (Musical group)
Contents: Intro / featuring Father Guido Sarducci -- If it wasn't for you / featuring De La Soul and Starchild Excalibur -- Are you down with it / featuring Mike Patton -- The world's gone mad / featuring Del the Funky Homospaien, Barrington Levy & Alex Kapranos -- Dating game / featuring Tim Meadows, Hines Buchanan and introducing Neelam -- Breakdown / featuring Jack Johnson -- Its like that / featuring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2004