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Avengers (Fictitious characters) Comic books, strips, etc China China Drama China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 Drama Immigrants Education Literacy Study and teaching (Elementary) Literacy Study and teaching (Primary) Martial arts China Drama Refugees Education Superheroes Comic books, strips, etcSummary: A heartwarming comedy about coal miners' daughters who took a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape their monotonous lives, only to become unwitting heroes to their depressed mining town. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HULSummary: Set amidst the urban jungle of Taipei, is this stylish tale of teen angst and despair. Centering on four disaffected, disillusioned youth, the storyline shuttles between the deadpan, petty con games of two Taipei hoods, a young woman, and a cab driver's son who's being pressured to study by his parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REBSummary: 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: "By the early-1970s, Chang Cheh was already Shaw Brothers' most prolific and well-known director with a plethora of box office hits (including the One-Armed Swordsman franchise) to his name and renowned for discovering the hottest young talents to star in his films. Three of those stars - David Chiang, Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng - all feature in Five Shaolin Masters and Shaolin Temple, two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHASummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: 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: 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 ASSSummary: 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
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVSummary: A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MiSummary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN RURSummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: Jonas Taylor leads a research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival. Pitted against colossal, prehistoric sharks and relentless environmental plunderers, they must outrun, outsmart and outswim their merciless predators.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEGBlood Orange
Contents: I wanna c u -- Something to do -- Dark & handsome / (feat. Toro y Moi) -- Benzo -- Birmingham / (feat. Kelsey Lu & Ian Isiah) -- Good for you / (feat. Justine Skye) -- Baby Florence (figure) -- Gold teeth / (feat. Project Pat, Gangsta Boo & Tinashe) -- Berlin / (feat. Porches & Ian Isiah) -- Tuesday feeling (choose to stay) / (feat. Tinashe) -- Seven hours (part 1) / (feat. Benny Revival) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLOSummary: A female agent, attacked and left for dead, trains with a kung fu master and uses her new skills to complete some unfinished and deadly business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: When a quintet of nasty ninjas, hell-bent on world domination, nearly massacres an entire clan, its lone survivor must take the path of revenge. He meets up with an old master well-versed in the ways of the ninja. Now armed with secret knowledge and newfound friends, he must battle the awesome power of the Five Element Ninjas (gold, wood, fire, water, earth).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Celestial Pictures 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FIVChoi, Eun-Gyu.
Summary: A small child observes dramatic changes in the weather, and sees the animals around behave differently depending on what the weather does. Includes facts about weather and animal behavior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big & Small 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.6 CHOVu, Don
Summary: Award-winning principal and literacy advocate Don Vu examines six conditions of a school’s culture of literacy (Commitment, Collection, Clock, Conversation, Connection, and Celebration), showing how to create an environment where all students—especially immigrant and refugee children—can thrive. Vu’s work is a testament to the transformative power of reading—a key to opening the door for all to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 302.2244 VUZub, Jim
Summary: "Ultron hacks into Vision's mind to trick him into rebuilding the metallic menace, and now Ultron's ready to unleash his revenge"--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUBZub, Jim
Summary: "Riddled with guilt for rebuilding his creator, the Vision searches for Ultron on his own, which leaves the Avengers to wonder whose side he's really on"--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUBSummary: "Hearing rumors about an undefeated player known as Zekken, Asuna decides to mount a challenge. Zekken has been seeking opponents to duel for an ultra-fast 11-hit combo original sword skill. Not a single challenger has been successful so far. Asuna comes very close and is barely defeated. To her surprise, Zekken asks Asuna to join the guild called Sleeping Knights. What is Zekken's real...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011