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Summary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001

Green, 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 2001

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rand Communications 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Shackleton, Ernest Henry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Benediction Classics 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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Contents: Anywhere (Remix) [Without Rap] (4:41) -- Anywhere (4:04) -- Anywhere (feat. Shyne & Lil' Z) [Remix] (With Rap) (5:40) -- Only You (feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Mase) [Bad Boy Remix] (4:51).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Atlantic 1999

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Roop, Connie.

Summary: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROO

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Parks, Gordon 1912-

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press Book 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 811.54 PAR

Summary: True story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventures. Bound for Antarctica in 1914, Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ten months later, the ship sank, stranding Shackleton and his crew of 27. Based on the diaries and first person accounts of expedition members, the film tells of their ordeal and their 800-mile journey in an open boat across the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: A transport plane crashes on Labrador's frozen tundra. The pilot must keep his crew alive while waiting to be rescued. Based on the novel by Ernest K. Gann.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Island

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRA

Patterson, James

Summary: A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAT

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Charles, Ray 1930-2005

Contents: All I want to do (with Angie Stone) -- You are my sunshine (with Chris Isaak) -- It all goes by so fast (with Mary J. Blige) -- You were there (with Gladys Knight) -- Imagine (with Ruben Studdard & The Harlem Gospel Singers) -- Compared to what (with Leela James) -- Big bad love (with Diana Ross) -- I will be there (with Idina Menzel) -- Blame it on the sun (with George Michael) -- Touch (with...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHA

Zolotow, Charlotte

Summary: A little girl goes for a walk with her mother on a windy autumn day and waits for her mother to "say it" in exactly the way she wanted to hear.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Zolotow 2015

Kilmeade, Brian

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.5 KIL

Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Readers Digest 1986

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Dicke

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 1994

Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

Summary: Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Readers Digest 1988

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Dicke

Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Readers Digest 1987

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Dicke

Summary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003

Summary: Otis Garner (Ernest Borgnine) was in his fifties when he walked out on his wife and kids. During a bittersweet reunion with his son Ted thirty years later, Otis hears a story about one special summer when Ted struggled with his own breaking point. An ambitious flashback shows the overworked Ted pressured to make time for his own young son Mike, and his buddy Andy, who want to spend the summer...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Brauer Productions 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THA

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