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Bender, Jim Brady, Tim Meijer, Fik. Powers, Tim, 1952- Reisler, Jim Weiner, Tim Weiner, Tim.Summary: 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
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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 HOWSummary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRESummary: A Korean War vet stops a young Hmong teen from stealing his prized car, and reluctantly proceeds to reform the boy, learning about himself along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRA RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Grand 2010Summary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XSummary: 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 DOCMeijer, Fik.
Summary: Overview: Meijer traces the origins of the gladiators over 2,500 years, from the initial belief that their blood spilled on a grave would sustain the dead on its journey to the underworld. Yet, as centuries passed and the Roman Empire grew, gladiators became part of vaster, more brutal entertainments staged by successive emperors eager to manipulate the public with "bread and circuses" and to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 MEISummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNReisler, Jim
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 REIPowers, Tim, 1952-
Summary: As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a deserted California cemetery late at night, bringing with them a number of arcane devices aimed at achieving an equally arcane purpose. What follows is the sort of dizzying, mind-expanding entertainment that only the always reliable, always astonishing Tim Powers could have written. These three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWSummary: From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGWeiner, Tim.
Summary: Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIXON, RICHARD WEISummary: 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 ESSSummary: In First blood, an ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam is searching for peace, but finds instead an overzealous, small town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMWeiner, Tim.
Summary: Presents the history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, detailing how the bureau has been used to conduct political warfare, and how it became the most powerful intelligence service in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.25 WEICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 WEIWeiner, Tim.
Summary: Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.127 WEISummary: Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with thehelp of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 WEIBrady, Tim
Summary: General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In the First World War, Ted braved gunfire and gas attacks...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE BRASummary: We're the Millers: A small-time pot dealer must become a big-time drug smuggler, so he convinces his neighbors - a stripper, a loser and a runaway - to play his fake family as he heads south of the border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 2 FILBender, Jim
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.977 BENSummary: A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dunkirk 2017Summary: Follows the adventures of Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew, as they try to get home after a space probe beams them 75 light years away from Federation space.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006