Tzi Ma
1) The farewell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
2) Mulan
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China." --
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
4) A good man
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with and old foe.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend." --
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, to drop out of college and go on a life-altering journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption, and her own parents Jin and Mei-Li are at the mercy of a powerful Triad. Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister Althea and Althea's fianc Ďennis, pre-med brother Ryan, Assistant District...
8) Mulan
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China." --
10) Pali Road
Author
Language
English
Description
A young doctor wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is married to another man and living a life she can't remember. Her search for the truth to her past life will lead her to question everyone around her and her entire existence.
11) The Jade Pendant
Author
Language
English
Description
The Old West becomes a battleground for power and revenge as thousands have come to the Wild West to build railroads in search of fortune and power. Based on true events.
Author
Language
English
Description
A stylish political thriller where love and war collide. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As a war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion and betrayal where nothing is as it seems! Based on the classic novel by Graham Greene.
