Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIFSummary: Lassie come home: A collie braves storms, hunger, and peril to return to her young master. Son of Lassie: On a bombing run over enemy-occupied Norway, a bomber crewman and his devoted dog, Lassie's son Laddie, parachute from their damaged aircraft into a series of wartime adventures. Courage of Lassie: Lassie is in the Army now. Follows the canine's new adventures form his wilderness puppyhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREBranford, Anna.
Summary: Violet finds a special way to cope with moving to a new home after Mama marries Vincent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JBR RED BRABranford, Anna.
Summary: With her knack for seeing the positive, six-year-old Violet anticipates extraordinary results after getting her tonsils removed, such as making a special new friend and turning her everyday voice into an opera voice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JBR RED BRABranford, Anna.
Summary: After moving to a new neighborhood, a girl who is both a worrier and a problem solver meets a possible very good friend next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JBR RED BRABranford, Anna.
Summary: As the youngest in her family, seven-year-old Violet identifies with small creatures in the natural world, but when she tries to help a special ladybug, she learns an important lesson about animal habitats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JBR RED BRASummary: En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MINSummary: Brought to life by a stellar, award-winning ensemble cast and featuring stunning visual effects, Titanic is an extraordinary retelling of the doomed voyage that follows the destinies of the Titanic's victims and survivors as their stories of passion, betrayal, and hope unfold amidst the tragic events of the ship's final hours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TIT RATED NRMcReynolds, Glenna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCR CH #2Summary: A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist: a human. News of this throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all-new story about friendship, courage, and the joy of discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SmSummary: Nicky is a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess. As he's teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later, the former flame, now an accomplished femme fatale, shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes racecar circuit. In the midst of Nicky's latest, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2015Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRStanford, Phil
Summary: Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. Portland is often called the Rose City, but the denizens that inhabit its underbelly rarely smell so sweet. Dirty cops, dirty robbers. These shady characters and their illicit connections reveal the boiling corruption in Phil Stanford's true crime stories. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Welcome to the City of Roses. Dark Horse is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Summary: Maud, an elderly woman struggling with dementia, becomes convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and something terrible has happened to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ELICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELIArmand, Glenda
Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARMArmand, Glenda
Summary: The Birthday Bird flies to a child's house on their special day to bake them a birthday cake the Kartoo way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "In Isabella's garden, amazing things come from the tiniest of seeds as they bloom and flourish and make way for a whole new season of growth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANDiehl, Stanford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longstreet Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIEStanford, Claire
Summary: "Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022