Summary: Upon the empire's fall to invading conquistadors, the sixteenth-century Incas quickly concealed a sacred manual containing the secrets behind their deadly fighting technique. But after centuries of careful safeguarding, the manual is again at risk of falling into the wrong hands, leaving its rightful guardian to battle the world's greatest assassins to protect the ancient secrets within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDLee, Soon Man.
Summary: Explains how to perform each block, kick, and combination in this Korean style of karate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Fit LeeSummary: Through an elderly and old-fashioned grandmother, a spoiled seven-year-old boy learns to accept and understand the simple pleasures of nature and her lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAYSummary: Follows the lives of Korean poet Young-Chan Cho, who is both deaf and blind, and his wife Soon Ho. Focuses on the couple's use of touch to communicate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLASummary: 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 ISLBoot, Max
Summary: A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust. "The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANSDALE, EDWARD BOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANDSDALE BOOBoot, Max
Summary: As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, [this book] presents an urgent defense of American democracy. Pronouncing Mexican immigrants to be "rapists," Donald Trump announced his 2015 presidential bid, causing Max Boot to think he was watching a dystopian science-fiction movie. The respected conservative historian couldn't...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.52 BOOBoot, Max
Summary: In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and mind" diplomacy, first...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LANSDALE, EDWARD BOOSummary: When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DMR 1999
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Summary: Mulan, a young girl who does not fit in well with traditional society, disguises herself as a soldier to take her father's place in the Imperial army when the Huns invade China.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUL RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MuCook, Lan
Summary: Here are traditional tales from every corner of the globe, all featuring bold and clever heroines who battle dragons, fight sea serpents or save their village from monstrous thieves. This is a sequel to the best-selling title Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls. Diverse range of characters. Lively retellings for a modern audience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Yoon, Soon-Young.
Summary: As a North Korean refugee, Soon-Young Yoon understood from an early age that people's destinies are connected to international events. This book is a collection of her reflections as a feminist who has worked both for the UN and for the international women's movement. Written through the lens of an anthropologist, these essays traverse the boundaries of being an insider and an outside of the UN.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ewha Womans University Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 YOOContents: Disc 1. Freight train boogie (Captain Luke) -- A living past (Guitar Gabriel) -- Railroad Bill (Etta Baker) -- Going away (John Lee Ziegler) -- High yellow (Cootie Stark) -- Chapel Hill boogie (John Dee Holeman) -- Shortnin' bread (Neal Pattman) -- Old rugged cross (Carl Rutherford) -- No hidin' place (Cool John Ferguson) -- Feel like my time ain't long (Essie Mae Brooks) -- Old time religion...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WESummary: Newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set in this time, is troubled high school student Luke Shapiro who is a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WACVan Booy, Simon.
Summary: The novel--inspired by true events--tells the stories of a deformed German infantryman; a lonely British film director; a blind museum curator; two Jewish American newlyweds separated by war; and a caretaker at a retirement home for actors in Santa Monica. They move through the same world but fail to perceive their connections until a veil is lifted to reveal the vital parts they have played...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVan Booy, Simon
Summary: Weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood with her Uncle Jason, a disabled felon who took her in after her parents died, and as a young woman in Paris as she awaits his arrival for a Father's Day visit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANYoo, Paula
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 305.895 Yoo 2021Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOVan Booy, Simon
Summary: As the newest Keeper of Lost Things, Gertie Milk travels through time to return missing objects to famous figures at key moments in history, following the directives of the B.D.B.U.--a book that contains the knowledge of the world--and searching for clues to her past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VANSummary: In 2000, a principal and some faculty members had begun to sexually molest and abuse several hearing impaired students at their school for close to 4 consecutive years. Though we may not want to accept it, it is time to face this horrible inhumane truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Inception Media Group 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SILMillar, Mark
Summary: "The Marvel universe is changing. In the wake of a tragedy, Capitol Hill proposes the Super Hero Registration Act, requiring all costumed heroes to unmask themselves before the government. Divided, the nation's greatest champions must each decide how to react -- a decision that will alter the course of their lives forever."--Back cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CIVYoo, Taeeun.
Summary: "Children pretend to be many different animals as they do various yoga poses"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2012