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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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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Summary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018

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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

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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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Green, Jane 1968-

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007

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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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Green, Jen.

Summary: A humorous look at the polar expedition of Ernest Shackleton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2001

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Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001

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Summary: 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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Flier, Yakov

Contents: Chaconne from Partita in D minor for violin solo / J.S. Bach ; F. Busoni (13:49) -- Songs without words. No. 2 in A minor, op. 19, no. 2 (2:29) ; No. 10 in B minor, op. 30, no. 4 (2:55) ; No. 20 in E flat major, op. 53, no. 2 (2:53) ; No. 45 in C major, op. 102, no. 3 (1:25) ; No. 46 in G minor, op. 102, no. 4 (2:54) / F. Mendelssohn -- Nocturne in A flat major : no. 3 from cycle Romance...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCD 1996

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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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Summary: "In pre-World War II London, Spanish agent Denard struggles to close a high-level business deal that will strike a blow against fascists in his native country. But industrialists not yet alert to the threat of fascism reject him. A teenage ally caught up in his efforts is murdered. And the mission itself seems a failure. Yet neither the story nor Denard will stop there. Charles Boyer plays...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010

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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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Contents: Trumpet tune and air / Purcell ; The Canadian Brass (2:50) -- Lohengrin. Bridal chorus / Wagner ; Choruses of the Bavarian Radio & Bavarian State Opera ; Bavarian Radio Symphony ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor (5:43) -- Solomon. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba / Handel ; The Canadain Brass (3:31) -- Suite bergamasque. Clair de lune / Debussy ; James Galway, flute & conductor ; Marisa Robles, harp ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 2001

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Matthews, John 1948-

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: QUEST 0000

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Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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Summary: Selected episodes of the hilarious comedy featuring the dimwitted Home Guard platoon of Walmington-On-Sea, led by Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] BFS Video 2004

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Various artists

Contents: Let's get it started / the Black Eyed Peas -- Here we go again / Ray Charles with Norah Jones -- American idiot / Green Day -- Heaven / Los Lonely Boys -- If I ain't got you / Alicia Keys -- Burn / Usher -- Through the wire / Kanye West -- She will be loved / Maroon 5 -- You had me / Joss Stone -- Redneck woman / Gretchen Wilson -- The first cut is the deepest / Sheryl Crow -- Sunrise / Norah...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grammy Recordings 2005

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(VOLS. 16-30; 1890-1906)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1907

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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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