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African American fighter pilots Biography Brown, Jesse Leroy Hudner, Tom 1924-2017 Interracial friendship Korean War, 1950-1953 Campaigns Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir Rescues Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir History 20th century United States. Navy African Americans Biography United States. Navy Officers Biography World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Juvenile literatureFilter By Subjects
African American fighter pilots Biography Brown, Jesse Leroy Hudner, Tom 1924-2017 Interracial friendship Korean War, 1950-1953 Campaigns Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir Rescues Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir History 20th century United States. Navy African Americans Biography United States. Navy Officers Biography World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Juvenile literatureWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: P.G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published—beautifully designed and faithful to the original. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODAlexander, Jeff
Summary: "The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 577.63 ALE1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.63 ALE
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport AlexanderThomas, Donald Serrell.
Summary: Five original tales inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic character feature Holmes taking on such challenges as the famed siege of Sydney Street, a planned German invasion of America, and a supernatual curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: Video games have come a long way since Pong and Pac-Man, and the development of that
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Darvill, Arthur
Summary: With the Time Masters defeated, the team must now protect the past, present, and future from the Legion of Doom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEGJennings, Francis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 JENLee, Erika.
Summary: "The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEEColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COLWolmar, Christian.
Summary: In this beautifully illustrated book, renowned transportation journalist Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious pioneers who developed the railways that would dominate the globe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 WOLRasenberger, Jim.
Summary: A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 RASSummary: Presents the four complete one-hour Ed Sullivan Shows that launched the "British Invasion" of the music industry and introduced the Beatles to America. Includes the original commercials.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SOFA Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FOUChudacoff, Howard P.
Contents: Introduction -- Childhood and play in colonial America, 1600-1800 -- The attempt to domesticate children and play, 1800-1850 -- The stuff of childhood, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age of unstructured play, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of co-optation of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2310 CHUSummary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Cold War tensions between Cuba and America. Charging the U.S. with planning an invasion of Cuba, Fidel Castro calls out 200,000 militiamen to guard Havana. Castro's invasion scare also enlivens debate in the UN, where Cuba has charged the U.S. with aggression. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev receives a gift of the Cuban flag and endorses Castro's anti-Americanism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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LaDuke, Winona
Summary: "Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.2 LADCopies Available at East Bay
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Nelson, James Carl
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of America's forgotten invasion of Russia: one-thousand miles north of Moscow, five-thousand brave U.S. troops from Michigan fought the Red Army during the winter of 1918-1919 in brutal arctic conditions."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColiinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 NELSanger, David E.
Summary: "A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the mid 60s a wave of British rock groups crossed the Atlantic to rule the charts in America. Ranging from hard rock to bouncy pop, the British Invasion changed the sound rock & roll forever. Includes The Kinks, Hollies, Animals, Yardbirds, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Standing Room Only 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BRISilvestri, Alan.
Contents: Captain America Main Titles (0:54) -- Frozen Wasteland (1:53) -- Schmidt's Treasure (3:00) -- Farewell To Bucky (2:50) -- Hydra Lab (1:52) -- Training The Supersoldier (1:07) -- Schmidt's Story (1:57) -- VitaRays (4:24) -- Captain America "We Did It" (1:58) -- Kruger Chase (2:54) -- Hostage On The Pier (2:45) -- General's Resign (2:16) -- Unauthorized Night Flight (3:11) -- Troop Liberation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2011
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Summary: By 1750, the American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million with the majority of blacks enslaved in the South while white colonists began to agitate for freedom from Britain. This program follows the fight for independence through interviews with historians and luminaries such as General Colin Powell, dramatic re-creations of important events, and archival photography, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Williams, Brian Glyn
Summary: "Counter Jihad is the first history of America's military operations against radical Islamists, from the Taliban-controlled Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan, to the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, to ISIS's headquarters in the deserts of central Syria, giving both generalists and specialists an overview of events that were followed by millions but understood by few. Williams provides the missing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 WILAdams, Simon
Summary: Photographs and illustrations describe the events of World War II, from the British, French, Italian, and German pre-war preparations to the atomic bomb and defeat of Japan and the German surrender.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK, in association with the Imperial War Museum 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This video examines the stories of immigrants who fled to America to escape religious persecution. Included are profiles of Tibetan Tsering, who escaped punishment from Chinese communists; D'vorah and Hirsch Spira, Hasidic Jews who hoped their religious traditions would be preserved in America; and the story of John Ruth, a Mennonite minister and historian, whose ancestor, Hans Landis, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Stein, Mark
Summary: "In American Panic, New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 STEMakos, Adam
Summary: "A young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that details the true story of two Navy pilots from divergent racial and economic backgrounds who forge a deep friendship during the Korean War as they face extraordinary circumstances." --Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022