Summary: By detailing key incidents ranging from the Dawson's Field hijackings to the Luxor massacre, this program charts the ever-widening holy war that is pitting Islamists against Zionists and the Arab world against the West. The Kach Party's Noam Federman; Bassam abu Sharif, founder of the Palestine Democratic Party; Abdel Aziz Rantisi and Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, operational and spiritual leaders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Taber, Sara Mansfield.
Contents: Preface -- pt. 1. The Sea -- book 1: Dragons (Taipei, Taiwan, 1961-1962) -- The Wall -- The Chicken Village -- Whispers -- Night Soil -- book 2: Gum (Bethesda, Maryland, 1962-1964) -- Cross my Heart -- Jap -- The Tomb -- American -- book 3: Rainlight (The Hague, The Netherlands, 1964-1968) -- Klompen -- Dutchies -- My Father's Bath -- The Pistol -- Nicole -- Home -- pt. 2. The Shore -- book 4:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TABER, SARA MANSFIELD TABLoftis, Larry
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II--perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Code Girls."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ODELepore, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.24 LEPDollarhide, William.
Summary: Most genealogical records during the decade of the Civil War are related to the soldiers and regiments of the Union and Confederate military. However, there are numerous records relating to the entire population as well. Dollarhide identifies the places to look, and documents to be found, for ancestors during the decade 1861-1869, as well as post-war veterans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Roots Pub. Co. 2009
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 DOLBlackmon, Douglas A.
Summary: A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BLAFrancis
Summary: "The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis' prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. "The clock is ticking, all life is in danger, but we are on time...Let's take the first step and go to meet the other, the different. Let's put hands, mind and heart to work together. Let's change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 FRAWands (Musical group)
Contents: Sound of the machine -- And full of colours -- Totem part II -- She's electric -- Get it out of your system / Don't you wanna feel alright -- War -- Dawn -- Circles -- Spell my name -- Name of the mountain
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Eye 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WANAllport, Alan
Summary: "Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ALLGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GHOSummary: "The Doctor kicks off this new run of adventures by searching for his companion Clara--an Impossible Girl he's already lost twice. Together they find themselves battling mosters on distant alien planets, trapped in a Russian submarine with a deadly passenger, chasing terrifying ghosts, delving into the heart of the TARDIS, facing the Crimson Horror in Victorian Yorkshire, and coming face to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCBlau, Karl
Contents: Slow children -- Poor the war away -- Beckon -- Valley of sadness -- Blue as my name -- I've got the sounds -- (Like you've got the blues) -- Where ya goin' papa? -- Dub the war away.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLABuruma, Ian.
Summary: "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BURStewart, Katherine
Summary: For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Mills, Steve
Summary: "In the dark days of World War I, when flying machines, radio, and electronics were infant technologies, the first remotely controlled experimental aircraft took to the skies and unmanned radio controlled 40-foot high-speed Motor Torpedo Boats ploughed the seas in Britain. Developed by the British Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy these prototype weapons stemmed from an early form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.44941 MILRomeo, Max.
Contents: One step forward (5:15) -- Uptown babies don't cry (5:00) -- I chase the devil (3:27) -- War ina Babylon (4:51) -- Norman (4:50) -- Stealing in the name of Jah (3:04) -- Tan and see (4:36) -- Smokey room (3:03) -- Smile out a style (3:32).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango 1976
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE ROMSmith, Jean Edward.
Summary: Acclaimed biographer Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to narrate the epic life of the president who, more than any other individual, changed the relationship between the American people and their government. We see how Roosevelt's energy, intellect, and personal magnetism permitted him to master countless challenges. Smith recounts FDR's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLI SMICarroll, James
Summary: "David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war's end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d'Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg's guide to a complicated Rome; while a charismatic young American Catholic priest, Monsignor Kevin Deane, seems equally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: The Doctor and his companions Amy Pond, Rory, and Clara travel around the universe and through time to battle Daleks and other evil aliens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCNordland, Rod
Summary: In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Contents: Prologue: in Jackson's time -- I met nullification at its threshold -- The freshmen -- The setting sun -- ... and Tyler, too -- War in Mexico! -- The 30th Congress -- A final settlement -- A hell of a storm -- The final election of the old America -- General Jackson is dead! -- The first and only choice of the Republicans of Illinois -- A startling tide of reckless fanaticism -- Five against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 DERLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019