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Female friendship Drama Ghost stories Ghosts Parapsychology Soul music United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 6th History World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Philippines Cabanatuan World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Philippines Cabanatuan World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories United StatesSummary: Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHOSummary: Based on the well-known comic, GHOST WORLD tells the story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation Josh (Brad...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2001
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Summary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHOClowes, Daniel.
Summary: One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Clowes 2007Contents: Jaan pehechaan ho (Mohammed Rafi) -- Graduation rap (Vanilla, Jade and Ebony) -- Devil got my woman (Skip James) -- I must have it (Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks) -- Miranda (Lionel Belasco) -- Pickin' Cotton Blues (Blueshammer) -- Let's go riding (Mr. Freddie) -- Georgia on my mind (Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks)-- Las Palmas de Maracaibo (Lionel Belasco) -- Clarice (Vince Giordano and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GHOGratz, Alan
Summary: "In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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Summary: "In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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Summary: The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "ghost fleet." Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor-style attack; American veterans become low-tech...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in theair, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINRuby, Laura
Summary: "When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary -- just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day when he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUBBeyer, Rick
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plate of Peas Productions 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 940.5421 BEYSides, Hampton.
Summary: Chronicles the raid by 121 U.S. troops to rescue 513 prisoners of war, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, from the Philippines in January 1945.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SidKagan, Robert
Summary: "A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author's acclaimed first volume, from our nation's earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KAGEllis, Melissa Martin.
Summary: Everyone loves a real-life ghost story! Ellis takes you on a journey into the supernatural world of haunted sites, restless souls, and messages from beyond the grave. She shows you the most up-to-date technology, as well as the supernatural phenomena themselves, and shows you how today's investigators use the tools of modern science to study a wide range of paranormal activity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Sides, Hampton.
Summary: A narration of the 1945 march to rescue 513 POWs, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, from a prison in the Philippines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 SIDSides, Hampton
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Pub. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5425 SIDLester, Toby.
Summary: Recounts the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and how the drawing represents the momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONARDO DA VINCI LesterRuby, Laura
Summary: When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RUBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Ruby 2019Summary: In which we serve (1942): A sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda telling the tale of a group of Royal Navy sailors as they battle the Germans in the Mediterranean and of the lives they left back home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DAVMann, Aimee.
Contents: How am I different -- Nothing is good enough -- Red vines -- The fall of the world's own optimist -- Satellite -- Deathly -- Ghost world -- Calling it quits -- Driving sideways -- Just like anyone -- Susan -- It takes all kinds -- You do.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: SuperEgo Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MANSmitten,Susan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Pine Publishing 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 133.1 SmittSt. James, Simone.
Summary: ""Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...." In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STJHarding, Curtis
Summary: An eleven track album from Curtis Harding includes songs such as On and On; Need Your Love; Ghost of You; and more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ANTI- 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES HARHenneberg, Susan
Summary: Whether or not you believe in them, the scientific investigation of ghosts is big business. Reality television shows that follow ghost hunters at work and the popularity of ghost tours in many U.S. cities prove that we are fascinated by the possibility that the dead may still be with us. This book examines evidence of the existence of ghosts and takes a critical look at what the scientific...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2015