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Summary: This PBS miniseries tells the epic history of oil ... how it has dominated global politics, shaken the world economy, and transformed our century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRI

Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Summary: A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall. Special features include: 'Right Here in River City' Documentary and Introduction by Shirley Jones.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUS RATED G

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUS

Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus, thus starting a boycott of the city buses. This single act is considered the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOY

Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESS

Summary: In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUN

Summary: When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRE

1982

Contents: 07:56 -- 06:19 -- 06:37 -- 07:00 -- 04:03 -- 04:45 -- 04:09

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hubro Music

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ NIN

Summary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COU

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Anderson, Godfrey J.

Summary: Contains the graphic story of a young Michigan soldier's experiences during President Woodrow Wilson's ill-fated 1918 military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the frozen reaches of northern Russia. --from publisher description

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 ANDERSON, GODFREY J. AND

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rand Communications 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PUR

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.

Summary: Tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.804 MAR

Parks, Gordon 1912-

Contents: Awakening -- Longing -- Remembering -- Waiting -- Returning -- Homecoming.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press Book 2000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 811.54 PAR

L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988

Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAM

Messner, Kate

Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MES

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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MES

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MES

Summary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AND

Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

Summary: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAY

Summary: Here is the complete story of World War I, captured as never before in riveting combat footage and gripping historical analysis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WOR

Nadler, Burton Jay 1953-

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media Corporation 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.14 Nadle

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow 1906-

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 9550

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 LIN

Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SER

Summary: An English nurse and an American soldier have an affair on the Italian front during World War I; Hemingway's semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories are dramatized; a writer lies feverish and delirious from an African hunting accident wound and feels like a failure as he reflects upon his life; a group of expatriates lives in Paris pursuing love, sex, and alcohol but happiness eludes them; a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ERN

Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PAR

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