Summary: "Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 COL

Citro, Asia

Summary: A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras use science experiments to help a monster with a problem.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Citro 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CIT

Firme, Tom

Summary: "Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.825 FIR

Mushroom

Contents: Compared to what (with Gary Floyd) -- I got blisters on my fingers (Black Eyed Pig) -- For men with beards (Brenda's Break) -- Foxy music (Mama Faust) -- Let's have sex (Noise 'n' Guitars) -- I got blisters on my fingers (Belgian White Chocolate) -- Americans own the moon, they bought it from the Germans who won it during a poker game in World War II.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: InnerSPACE Records 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MUS

Summary: The post Cold War era began with a decade of conflicts often mediated by the United States as the world's only remaining superpower. The September 11 terrorist attacks, however, marked the dawning of a new era. The United States became preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while around the world, new challenges and threats emerged: a more assertive Russia, an increasingly powerful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 POS

Monsters of Folk

Contents: Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.) -- Sat please -- Whole lotta losin' -- Temazcal -- The right place -- Baby boomer -- Man named truth -- Goodway -- Ahead of the curve -- Slowdown -- Losin' yo head -- Magic maker -- Map of the world -- The sandman, the brakeman, and me -- His master's voice.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Shangri-La Music 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MON

Westad, Odd Arne

Summary: "We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WES

Summary: Sigmund and the Sea Monsters was an American children's television series that ran from 1973 to 1975, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft and aired on Saturday Mornings. The show centered on two brothers, Johnny and Scott Stuart, who discover Sigmund, a friendly young sea monster who has been thrown out by his comically dysfunctional undersea family for refusing to frighten people. The boys hide...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: SMK Pictures 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIG

Engel, Jeffrey A.

Summary: "The untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War--based on unprecedented access to heretofore classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 ENG

Summary: A sweeping look at nearly five decades of global history, a crystallization of a massive, three-year-long effort helmed by award-winning documentarian Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War). Isaacs's team shot more than 1,000 hours of original footage and gathered archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COL

Gellately, Robert

Summary: This book is a chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin's true motives -- and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire -- during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Stalin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 GEL

War (Musical group)

Contents: Disc 1. -- Spill the wine. -- Tobacco Road. -- All day music. -- Slippi' into darkness. -- Get down. -- Nappy head. -- The world is a ghetto. -- City, country, city. -- The Cisco kid. -- Where was you at. -- Four cornered room. -- Gypsy man. -- Me and baby brother. -- Deliver the word. -- Southern part of Texas. -- Ballero. -- Why can't we be friends?. -- Disc 2. -- Low rider. -- Don't let no...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WAR

Davidson, Zanna

Summary: Billy hates swimming. It is cold and wet and horrible. And just when Billy thinks things cannot get any worse, his pet Mini Monsters turn up at his swimming lesson and make one very big SPLASH.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DAV

Rivkin, Jennifer

Summary: Explores the characteristics, origins, anecdotal sightings, and appearance in popular culture of the Loch Ness monster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.9 RIV

Of Monsters and Men (Musical group)

Summary: After two years of touring, writing music, and developing their sound, Of Monsters and Men return with a more complex and compelling sound on their sophomore album. Included is the new single Crystals.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Republic 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OF

MacGregor, Iain

Summary: "Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943 MAC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MAC

Reid, Stuart A.

Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.51031 REI

Brown, Jeffrey

Summary: "Lucy and her goofball brother Andy, two Neanderthal siblings living 40,000 years ago, take on a wandering baby sibling, bossy teens, cave paintings, and a mammoth hunt. But what will happen when they encounter a group of humans? Includes a special paleontologist section that helps to dispel common Neanderthal myths"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRO

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUC