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American Civil War (1861-1865) Children's stories Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) Great Britain Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) Fiction History, Modern Study and teaching (Secondary) Travelers Fiction United States United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1862-1865) Voyages, Imaginary Early works to 1800Summary: It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INDSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1964, a hard-boiled major is ordered to defend Muc Wa, an unoccupied and seemingly unimportant Vietnamese military outpost left behind by the French. He, his idealistic young lieutenant, his mostly green soldiers, and their supporting force of Vietnamese volunteers are overwhelmed as they deal with ambushes, betrayals, and brutality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOSummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3
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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002Jay, John, 1745-1829
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2007
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska, 1865-1947
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Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2006
Summary: Follows the legendary adventures of a shipwrecked sailor among the tiny people of Lilliput. In this strange land, Gulliver brings peace to two feuding kingdoms and reunites a prince with his princess before returning to the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GULSummary: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MER NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2016Casamer, Douglas M.
Summary: The Michigan 22nd Infantry regiment was instrumental in making the outcome of the Civil War a Union victory. Included is a study of the 1,610 men who fought in this regiment. Fought in and around the following battles; Chickamauga; Lookout Mountain; Chattanooga; Lost Mountain; Kennesaw Mountain; Chattahoochee River; Peach Tree Creek; Jonesboro; Atlanta. Formed at Pontiac, Michigan and mustered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Casamer Publishing 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R GEN 973.7474 CASChild, Lee.
Summary: Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying a life of anonymity in Key West when a private detective named Costello comes around with prying questions. Reacher conceals his identity, but is no less annoyed by the situation. Even more troublesome, Costello turns up dead soon after with his fingertips sliced off. Left with several questions, Reacher hits the road to find some answers. Answers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHISwift, Jonathan
Summary: The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopµdia Britannica 1955
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SWIGregory, Philippa
Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GreSwift, Jonathan
Summary: A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered. A voyage in those days was not a pleasant thing, and a traveller was likely to encounter mysterious islands and strange people. Danger lurked around every corner, and friends and foes are to be found unexpectedly, and in equal measure. When Lemeul...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Welbeck Editions 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SWIMilton, John 1608-1674
Summary: John Milton: English Minor Poems--Paradise Lost--Samson and Agonistes--Aeropagitica.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1952
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Great v. 29 MiltonBach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BACSummary: At the end of the Civil War, Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and former Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) lead their men into Mexico to begin a new life. Caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces, they find themselves fighting side by side and must forge an uneasy friendship in order to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003