Smith, Larry.
Summary: Celebrating the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for bravery in combat, Beyond Glory is the first oral history of living Medal of Honor recipients, providing, in their own words, the stories of the enlisted men and officers who have endured nearly unimaginable scenes of combat. Since the Medal of Honor was established during the Civil War in 1862, only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIPower, Carla
Summary: If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship-between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh-had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, it marked the end of a terrible period of conflict that nearly destroyed the United States. But it also marked the beginning of a period of recovery that was in many ways as painful as the war itself. Freed blacks remained essentially enslaved, and race and tax riots, marauders and insurgents, profiteers, carpetbaggers, the KKK, and Jesse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Pantera (Musical group)
Contents: Strength beyond strength (3:39) -- Becoming (3:05) -- 5 minutes alone (5:50) -- I'm broken (4:25) -- Good friends and a bottle of pills (2:54) -- Hard lines, sunken cheeks (7:01) -- Slaughtered (3:57) -- 25 years (6:06) -- Shedding skin (5:37) -- Use my third arm (4:52) -- Throes of rejection (5:01) -- Planet caravan (4:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Eastwest Records America 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PANSummary: Around the world, hospitals have become known for something other than healing-in fact, quite the opposite. This program follows the challenges faced by various hospitals, many of them state-of-the-art facilities, that have become hosts to nearly invincible germs. Focusing on the bacteria known as MRSA, the video goes inside French, German, and Dutch hospitals battling the sinister and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Hampton, Ryan
Summary: Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution? Where is the hope? Where's the outrage? Ryan Hampton is a young man who has made addiction and recovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 HAMSummary: The ultimate conquering force has been released into the universe, and it's heading towards Earth, leaving a path of galactic devastation in it's wake. The DC Universe will be shaken to it's core, with one hero-Superman-pushed to his limit as Earth becomes embroiled in a galactic war against a seemingly unstoppable enemy.Volume Two shows the war going badly for Superman and his allies. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSpence, Alexander.
Contents: Little hands -- Cripple Creek -- Diana -- Margaret-tiger rug -- Weighted down (The prison song) -- War in peace -- Broken heart -- All come to meet her -- Books of Moses -- Dixie peach promenade -- Lawrence of euphoria -- Grey ; Afro -- This time he has come -- It's the best thing for you -- Keep everything under your hat -- Furry heroine (Halo of gold) -- Givin' up things -- If I'm good -- You...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sundazed 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SpencSummary: "The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.7 WORSummary: "Kids will build confidence all summer long as they master early literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids to: Stay motivated to read ; Maintain reading skills and avoid summer slide ; Get excited about using the library ; Keep discovering and learning all summer long."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follow four Scrabble game fanatics as they advance to the North American Championship. The film is a entertaining and humorous look at a board game that's an occasional amusement for some - and a serious obsession (or disturbing addiction) for others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Camera Planet 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WORBaxter, Stephen
Summary: "A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXEvans, Sara
Contents: Long way down -- Marquee sign -- Diving in deep -- All the love you left me -- Like the way you love me -- Rain and fire -- Night light -- I need a river -- I don't trust myself -- Make room at the bottom -- Words -- I want you -- Letting you go -- A little bit stronger.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY EVACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY EvaChmakova, Svetlana
Summary: In the Night Realm, vampires, shifters, weirns, and other night things passing for human prowl the streets... but they still have to go to school! Ailis and Na'ya are pretty average students (NOT losers), but when a shadow starts looming and a classmate gets all weird, they are the first to notice. It gets personal, though, when Na'ya's little brother D'esh disappears-It's time to confront the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JY, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The death of Falstaff : from Henry V : two pieces for strings / William Walton (London Philharmonic Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor) -- II., Adagio, ma non troppo : from Cello concerto in B minor, op. 104 / Antonín Dvořák (Yo-Yo Ma, violoncello; New York Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor) -- Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp, and piano [excerpt] / Aaron Copland (Benny Goodman,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy/RCA Red Seal 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SONSummary: Updated for 2008! It's the ultimate challenge for every basic automotive instructor: how to teach students who know almost nothing about car technology. This video is designed for viewers who might have only a vague understanding of an automobile's inner workings, helping them to become more technically informed about vehicle parts, systems, and operation. With the help of detailed yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Thorpe, Kiki
Summary: Lainey's bad day turns worse when Prilla the fairy calls her clumsy, but while walking in the woods of Never Land, Lainy discovers the hideout of the Lost Boys and makes some new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Thorpe 2014 Never Girls #6Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J NG 6Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED THOPantera (Musical group)
Contents: Cowboys from hell -- Cemetery gates -- Mouth for war -- Walk -- This love -- I'm broken -- Becoming -- 5 minutes alone -- Planet caravan -- Drag the waters -- Where you come from (live) -- Cat scratch fever -- Revolution is my name -- I'll cast a shadow -- Goddamn electric -- Hole in the sky.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra/Rhino 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This episode follows as artist correspondents Alfred Waud and Winslow Homer document the war with sketches and paintings, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Medina, Nico
Summary: "In 1914, the assassination of an Austrian archduke set off a disastrous four-year-long conflict involving dozens of countries with battles taking place in all parts of the world. World War I was the first to use planes and tanks as well as deadly gases that left soldiers blinded or "shell shocked" (a condition now called Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome). There were battles that lasted for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 MEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What MedinaSummary: Bo Burnham brings you his first one-hour stand-up special from the House of Blues in Boston. Before he reached his 18th birthday, Burnham entered the mainstream consciousness with Internet videos of him playing uproarious songs with ingenious wordplay and bad puns. This stand-up special will surely not disappoint! Special features include Oh Bo music video, Words, Words, Words music video, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Home Video 2010
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS BORobinson, Porter
Contents: Divinity (featuring Amy Millan) -- Sad machine -- Years of war (featuring Breanne Duren and Sean Caskey) -- Flicker -- Fresh static show -- Polygon dust (featuring Lemaitre) -- Hear the bells (featuring Imaginary Cities) -- Natural light -- Lionhearted (featuring Urban Cone) -- Sea of voices -- Fellow feeling -- Goodbye to a world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ROBBeecroft, Simon
Summary: A visual guide to the minifigures, vehicles, and sets from the entire Lego Star Wars saga. Learn how the sets are created in the Beyond the Brick chapter, which features concept art and an interview with the LEGO Star Wars creative team. New Edition has been fully updated and expanded to cover the latest Lego Star Wars sets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019