Summary: In a food-obsessed world, best-selling author Anthony Bourdain stands apart as the consummate culinary adventurer. The globe-trotting hedonist known as the "gastronomic Indiana Jones" scrupulously explores a locale's cuisine like no other TV traveler. In Season three, he nibbles caviar and goes clubbing in Moscow, samples the finest Thai Town noodles in Los Angeles, investigates rumors of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV ANTSummary: Megan McCormick begins her journey in Hong Kong, looking out at the incredible skyline from Victoria Peak, then takes the ferry to visit Tap Mum Chau and Lantau Island. After a flight to Taiwan she explores the capital Taipei and Orchid Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.125 HONSummary: Explore the juxtaposition between modern and traditional, from Tai Chi to tumbling, in Shanghai, and see Hong Kong's famous skyline from the Star Ferry. Includes special features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.1 BESWasserstrom, Jeffrey N
Summary: "On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in China The rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great financial centers of the world. The unraveling of Hong Kong, on the other hand, shatters the grand illusion of China ever having the intention of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.2506 WASYogis, Jaimal
Summary: "When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Summary: "A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world. Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016--after fifty-six years in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAN, JACKIE CHECheng, Long
Summary: "A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world. Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016--after fifty-six years in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 CHAN, JACKIE CHESummary: Missing in action: Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the bloodiest war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner. Braddock gets the evidence then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck, an old Army...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment
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Summary: "The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People's Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao's promise of a powerful China....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WONSummary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WORCheung, Karen
Summary: "In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance. Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents take to the streets to rally against encroaching threats on their democracy and freedoms. But it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHEUNG, KAREN CHELim, Louisa
Summary: "An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 LIMSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: Travel to the far reaches of the globe with best-selling author and self-proclaimed hedonist Anthony Bourdain, the Indiana Jones of world cuisine. Join Anthony as he experiences the rich cultures of the people he meets in his travels and samples their many gastronomic delights. Sweden: While sampling popular Swedish delicacies like lingonberry sorbet and lobster with butter and sugar, Anthony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MATClifford, Mark
Summary: "Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled; no work was beneath him, and he often slept on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAI, JIMMY CLISummary: Many years after the bloody turf war that ushered in an uneasy era of peace in Hong Kong's underworld, the notorious Kowloon Walled City serves as a fortified, lawless safe haven for gangs and refugees alike. But when a skilled underground fighter runs afoul of the most feared Triad boss in Hong Kong, a bounty is placed on his head despite his connections to the leader of the infamous enclave....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWIEngland, Vaudine
Summary: "Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues to threaten its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023