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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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSchneider, Howie 1930-
Summary: Lazy Uncle Wilfrid finds adventure beyond his television set when he tries to retrieve his uncle's flyaway hat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SchneKouga, Yun, 1965-
Summary: "Soubi takes Ritsuka to find Septimal Moon, and Kio tags along for the ride. Ritsuka is unsettled and disturbed to discover that the Seimei Kio knew is very different from Ritsuka's own memories of his beloved older brother... Or are they so different after all? When Ritsuka confronts him about it, Soubi reveals a link that may finally start to reconcile Ritsuka's fragmented view of the young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVSummary: "Cowboys: a documentary portrait" is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "bit outfit" ranches - some of which are over a million acres - and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COWKouga, Yun, 1965-
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopo 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVKouga, Yun, 1965-
Summary: "As Ritsuka continues to mourn the loss of his older brother Seimei, he endures abuse from his mother, bullying at school, and the threat of new assassins who are targeting him"--Cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopo 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVThoene, Bodie 1951-
Summary: In this sequel to the Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lendhaim his caught in the center of violence that sweeps Europe as Hitler's plan to annihilate the Jews unfolds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ThoenYi, Chi-min
Summary: American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YISummary: 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 RAMThoene, Bodie 1951-
Summary: Although they are able to escape Hitler's Germany, Leah and Louis are unable to find a country which will take them in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1990
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Summary: "The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction RusSummary: FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is back once again to solve the case of who killed Laura Palmer in the sleepy Washington town of Twin Peaks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TWISummary: Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile. Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity's future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE JUNSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRRich, Buddy
Summary: Buddy Rich highlights the relentless power and unparalleled artistry of the man who was known as "The World's Greatest Drummer."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BUDSummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARSummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOAHorie, Yoshitaka.
Contents: The toughest battle in world history -- Isolated island : where no planes or vessels could go -- Saipan was said to be impregnable -- Iwo Jima is next! -- Iwo Jima : an island of pineapples and jungle -- The Ogasawara Islands force and the U.S. Pacific fleet -- Let's sink Iwo Jima into the ocean -- Supply operations at night via Chichi Jima -- Defensive operations from the caves -- Send more...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HORIE, YOSHITAKA HORSummary: "In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title--'a fight between two blacks in a black nation, organized by blacks,' as a Kinshasa billboard...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC WHESummary: When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DARSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC