Summary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midway 2020Summary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLIEvans, Luke
Summary: Tells the story of William Moulton Marston who, inspired by his wife, Elizabeth and their live-in lover, Olive, created Wonder Woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PROContents: Volcano (2:48) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- 9:20 Special (3:07) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- Shiny Stockings (5:06) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- Cherokee (3:22) Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra. -- Skyliner (3:00) Charlie Barnet an
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BIGSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THEGreen, Jen.
Summary: A humorous look at the polar expedition of Ernest Shackleton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2001
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set You Wouldn't 919.8 Green 2001Bukey, Evan Burr
Summary: "Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations. This was no coincidence. Popular anti-Semitism was so powerful in Austria that once deportations of Jews began in 1941, the streets of Vienna were frequently lined with crowds of bystanders shouting their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BUCRobert Glasper Experiment (Musical group)
Contents: Baby Tonight (Black Radio 2 Theme/Mic Check 2) (4:24) -- I Stand Alone (4:54) -- What Are We Doing (3:35) -- Calls (5:42) -- Worries (3:37) -- Trust (7:30) -- Yet To Find (4:41) -- You Own Me (4:26) -- Let It Ride (7:08) -- Persevere (4:36) -- Somebody Else (3:44) -- Jesus Children (5:30) -- Big Girl Body (5:06) -- You're My Everything (4:20) -- I Don't Even Care (3:32) -- Lovely Day (5:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2013
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Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACRobert Glasper Experiment (Musical group)
Contents: Baby Tonight (Black Radio 2 Theme/Mic Check 2) (4:24) -- I Stand Alone (4:54) -- What Are We Doing (3:35) -- Calls (5:42) -- Worries (3:37) -- Trust (7:30) -- Yet To Find (4:41) -- You Own Me (4:26) -- Let It Ride (7:08) -- Persevere (4:36) -- Somebody Else (3:44) -- Jesus Children (5:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2013
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Summary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: Zombie teenager Kieren Walker isn't comfortable in his 'undead' state. He didn't want to come back, he wanted to be dead. After his suicide four years ago, his friends and family thought they'd never see him again. But then, shortly after his funeral, thousands rose from the dead; and after a catastrophic war, imprisonment, months of rehabilitation and medication, the zombies are gradually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INGlasper, Robert.
Contents: Baby tonight (Black Radio 2 theme) ; Mic check 2 (4:23) -- I stand alone (feat. Common & Patrick Stump) (4:54) -- What are we doing (feat. Brandy) (3:35) -- Calls (feat. Jill Scott) (5:42) -- Worries (feat. Dwele) (3:37) -- Trust (feat. Marsha Ambrosius) (7:30) -- Yet to find (feat. Anthony Hamilton) (4:41) -- You own me (feat. Faith Evans) (4:26) -- Let it ride (feat. Norah Jones) (7:08) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GLASummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANBlake, Michael
Summary: In his New York Times bestselling novel Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake created an unforgettable saga of white and Native American cultures. Now in Marching to Valhalla, Blake unfolds the story of the final months of General George Armstrong Custer, a story that illuminates the epic sweep of his entire life--his career, his passions, his legacy to the American west. Here is Custer as we've...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLAFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sherlock 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHE RATED PG-13Summary: A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIGMcOrist, Wilson.
Summary: "One hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on the legendary Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917), accomplishing one of history's most remarkable feats of endurance, even though his crew failed in their mission to cross Antarctica...Less well known, however, is the incredible but often forgotten tale of the Mount Hope party (also known as the Ross Sea party)--six men who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 MCOSummary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOWZijl, Annejet van der
Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJSummary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARShackleton, Ernest Henry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Benediction Classics 2007