Summary: 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.
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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: Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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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 FLOPaulk, Wm. Bruce.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Marine Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.89 PAUContents: 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.Jhung, Paula.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.5 JHUSummary: Eun-yi's presence attracts the amorous attentions of Hoon, the master of the house, and he begins an affair with her. Igniting the jealousy of an older maid who knows many family secrets, Eun-yi quickly finds herself in the center of a familial power struggle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOUSummary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: Halloweentown High: To prove that humans have changed since the "dark times", Marnie invites Halloweentown teenagers to her school. When an evil knight shows up to destroy all things magical, Marnie must save her friends and her own magic. Return to Halloweentown: By now, everyone knows Marnie Piper is a witch. It comes as no surprise when she wins a full scholarship to prestigious Witch...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALWm Gardner E Ball
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Eldridge 1924
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOVSummary: 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
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIYOUNG, PAUL.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOUYoung, Paul
Contents: Bite the hand that feeds (4:28) -- Everytime you go away (5:23) --I'm gonna tear your playhouse down (5:06) -- Standing on the edge (4:36) --Soldier's things (6:20) -- Everything must change (5:34) -- Tomb of memories (3:53) -- One step forward (3:42) -- Hot fun (4:25) -- This means anything (3:13) -- I was in chains (5:43).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOUSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMDigweed, John.
Contents: Disc one: Imagine (Imagination 1) (Fortunato & Montresor) -- Blu savannah (Liquid Language) -- Wonky (Head affect remix) (Pocket) -- Filter (Jan Driver) -- Flood (Shapeshifter) -- Towards Omega (Astral Matrix) -- Elements (The chant) (Danny Tenaglia) -- Down the river (McBuffalo mix) (Hong Kong Trash) -- Spiritual (that kid Chris mix) (Abundence) -- Slap me some skin (Brother Brown) -- Blue...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Thrive Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIGSummary: The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The hopes and aspirations for her sons is movingly communicated from beginning to conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SONSummary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUBrahms, Johannes
Contents: Concerto in A minor for violin & cello / Johannes Brahms (32:46) -- Piano concerto no. 3 in C minor / Ludwig van Beethoven (37:58) -- Tout un monde lointain. 2nd mvt (excerpt) / Dutilleux (Renaud Capuc̦on, violin ; Truls Mørk, cello ; Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra ; Myun-Whun Chung, conductor) (1:55) -- String quartet in D, op. 64/5 : Lark. 1st mvt (excerpt) / Haydn (Mosaïques Quartet)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BRASummary: The Best Eighties Album contains the defining tracks of the decade features some of the biggest hits from artists including Belinda Carlisle, Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Adam & The Ants, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Bangles, Billy Ocean, James Brown and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONETan, Dun
Contents: The book of timespace : winter. Piazza -- The book of timespace : spring. Sea ; Bazaar -- The book of timespace : summer. Desert ; Himalaya ; The wall -- The book of timespace : autumn. The wall (continued).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O TANYoon, Paul
Summary: "A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. How does a North Korean defector connect with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC YOOYoon, Paul
Summary: "From Paul Yoon, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Once the Shore and Snow Hunters, comes a luminous collection of short stories set throughout the world--from the Hudson Valley to the Russian Far East--across periods of time after World War II"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOOShelton, Paula Young
Summary: Paula Young Shelton grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family--and thousands of others--in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021