Young Prisms
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOUSummary: 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 Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: When the British government is discovered smuggling precious Chinese artifacts out of the country, folklore hero Wong Fei Hong uses his uniquely outlandish style of martial arts...Drunken Boxing...to fight the conspirators and salvage the valuables before it's too late! And the more Hong drinks, the more agile he becomes -- able to fend off numerous attacks with unbelievable moves! With Chinese...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LEGSummary: In a remote monastery high up in the mountains, an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he must lead his disciples away from their past ties to the outside world and its rapidly changing values, and point them toward their quest for enlightenment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bae Yong-kyun Productions [production company 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHYSummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: 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 WAYUng, Loung.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, CHOU UNGUng, Loung.
Summary: "When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, LOUNG UNGSummary: 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 ASSKim, Seung-Woo
Summary: A fickle filmmaker falls for a young woman and then leaves her, but when he tries to recreate the romance, he meets her again under awkward circumstances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMUng, Loung.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, CHOU UNGSummary: 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 SILContents: Gossip (Cyril Neville) (2:35) -- If it's good to you (it's good for you) (Eddie Bo) (2:29) -- Right place, wrong time (Ray J.) (2:55) -- Chicken strut (The Meters) (2:45) -- Tequila (Allen Toussaint) (3:11) -- Hot Tamales (The Prime Mates) (2:37) -- Show it (Betty Harris) (2:55) -- Four corners (Lee Dorsey) (2:51) -- You keep me hangin on (Bonnie and Sheila) (2:42) -- Yeah you're right, you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWContents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSForrest, Frederic
Summary: After being captured in Georgia, Union soldiers must learn to survive in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANDSummary: "Prominent New Orleans attorney Lawson Russell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) puts his name on a best seller he didn't write. However, the novel he stole was a factual account of a series of murders. Hunted by the detective Clifford Dubose (Tom Berenger) and the FBI, Lawson Russell must discover who framed him and why"--Packaging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Murder 1998Hong, Ying
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HONG, YING HONSummary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOSummary: An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his sons, he also moves...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: Set in 19th century Korea, this version also tells the tale of treachery, lust and sacrifice. Elegant, courtly and sexually voracious young Lord Jo-won's public life of idle nobility masks a not-so-private life of unending sexual conquest. Challenged by his equally debauched cousin Lady Cho to seduce a teenaged virgin threatens Cho's household kingdom. Jo-won accepts on condition that Cho...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005