Demick, Barbara.
Summary: Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2003, as the United States confronted North Korea over its resumption of nuclear weapons production, North Koreans prepared to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their supposed "victory" over the South in the Korean War. This Wide Angle documentary tells the story of two teenage girls preparing to participate in the Mass Games, one of the last surviving Communist showcase pageants and a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Summary: This undercover report documents the stark poverty and extreme repression in North Korea that exist alongside spectacular cultural events and age-old customs unfettered by political ideology. Posing as a tourist, broadcast journalist Janet Choi risked arrest to get an inside look at one of the planet's most secretive-and brutally totalitarian-countries while under surveillance by a police "tour...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Ling, Laura
Summary: The never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue with the help of President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the world's most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LINSonneborn, Liz.
Summary: Discusses the history, geography, wildlife, government, economy, religion, culture, and people of North Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Naval air raid on Korea; bomb with a Kitchen Sink attached to it put under wing of plane.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952
View online at AVOD
Summary: Aerial bombardment of North Korean lines near Seoul
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951
View online at AVOD
Mattern, Joanne
Summary: Readers will learn about the unique and defining features of South Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around All GuaSeth, Michael J.
Summary: In this comprehensive yet compact book, Michael J. Seth surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the present. He explores the origins and development of Korean society, politics, and its still little-known cultural heritage from their inception to the two Korean states of today. Telling the remarkable story of the origins and evolution of a society that borrowed and adopted from abroad,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 SETNorth, Freddie
Contents: Gotta go get your mommy (3:13) -- Love to hate (3:40) -- Rainy night in Georgia (4:33) -- Thank that woman (4:19) -- I loved another woman (2:58) -- From the blind side (2:48) -- Sun comes up (2:15) -- Oh Lord, what are you doing to me (3:05) -- I have a dream (3:07).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A-Bet 1970
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NORTudor, Daniel
Summary: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 TUDJones, Norah
Summary: Concert performance recorded live August 9, 2004, at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tenn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NORBlevins, Wiley
Summary: The east Asian nation of South Korea is a land of gorgeous natural landscapes, with green forests, towering mountains, and ocean beaches. It is also a land of sprawling, modern cities. Readers will meet up with Wook-jin and Yu-na, their local guides, as they explore everything South Korea has to offer. They ll learn about the country s history, culture, typical lifestyles, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951.95 BLEBannick, Paul
Summary: In Owl, award-winning photographer Paul Bannick uses his intimate yet dramatic images to track four different nesting owl species, Northern Pygmy, Burrowing, Great Gray, and Snowy, throughout the course of one year and in four distinct habitats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Braided River 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598 BANSoundtrack of Our Lives (Musical group)
Contents: Throw it to the universe -- You are the beginning -- When we fall -- Where's the rock? -- Freeride -- Waiting for the lawnmowers -- Faster than the speed of light -- Reality show -- Busy land -- If nothing lasts forever -- Solar circus -- What's your story? -- Shine on (There's another day after tomorrow).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Yep Roc Records 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SOUSummary: This program provides a brief overview of the partitioning of Korea; the battles for Seoul, Inchon, and Pusan; the entry of Chinese troops into the war as United States marines approached the Manchurian border; General MacArthur's famous speech to Congress; and the armistice at Panmunjom and the establishment of the demilitarized buffer zone. The program also shows the war's aftermath in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Armstrong, Craig.
Contents: Ruthless gravity -- Wake up in New York -- Miracle -- Amber -- Finding -- Waltz beauty -- Inhaler -- Hymn 2 -- Snow -- Starless II -- Stay (faraway, so close!) -- Niente -- Sea song -- Let it be love -- Choral ending.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARMRun River North (Musical group)
Contents: Monsters calling home -- Beetle -- Lying beast -- Run river run -- Growing up -- Fight to keep -- In the water -- Somewhere -- Foxbeard -- Excuses -- Banner.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUNSummary: UN forces withdrawing after Communist rout (Korea)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
View online at AVOD
Summary: In these 24 highly enjoyable lectures, National Geographic takes you into the multifaceted world of birding, focusing on the astonishing range of bird species in North America. With its wide spectrum of wildlife habitats, North America is an endless region of interest for birders from around the world. Within the course, you'll make an in-depth study of bird identification, covering bird size,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.07 CURCall number: DVD 598.07 CUR
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.07 GUISummary: Action around "Heartbreak Ridge"; big helicopters prove useful in Korean War battle
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951
View online at AVOD
Circuit des Yeux
Contents: Tonglen in vain -- Vanishing -- Dogma -- The chase -- Sculpting the exodus -- Walking toward winter -- Argument -- Neutron star -- Stranger -- Oracle song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CIREnvy of None (Musical group)
Contents: Never said I love you -- Shadow -- Look inside -- Liar -- Spy house -- Dog's life -- Kabul blues -- Old strings -- Dumb -- Enemy -- Western sunset.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ENVGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: The United States of 1940, an isolationist country divided along class lines, still suffering the ravages of a decade-long depression, and woefully unprepared for war, was unified by a common threat and by the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world. At the center of the country's transformation was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013