Summary: They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO RATED PG-13

Park, Linda Sue.

Summary: When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PAR

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAM

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KAT

Ganeshananthan, V. V.

Summary: "Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers, swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm? Sashi...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAN

Summary: Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROS

Summary: Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIN

Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAS

Roumani, Rhonda

Summary: Set in the early days of the Syrian Civil War, cousins Kareem and Samira living in Massachusetts navigate the growing conflict in Syria, new friendships, and the use of art to express themselves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROU

Cera, Michael

Summary: The cubs learn lessons from their parents and neighbors about eating nutritious food, manners, and helping others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BER

Cera, Michael

Summary: The cubs learn lessons from their parents and neighbors while building their own kite to take part in a kite-flying contest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BER

Fellowes, Jessica

Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FEL

Cera, Michael

Summary: The Berenstain Bears go to the beach and the cubs learn an important lesson about family cooperation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films (usa) Llc 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BER

Summary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CRO

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3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRO

Summary: A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEF

Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PAC

Summary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008

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

Arudpragasam, Anuk

Summary: "Very seldom in a reading life does a novel alter your sense not only of literature but of the world. This extraordinary debut is of that class." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARU

Arudpragasam, Anuk

Summary: "A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARU

Luloff, Joanna

Summary: To those living in the south of Sri Lanka, the civil war between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector seems unreal, until north and south lives intersect.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUL

Summary: Sam Childers is a drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing spiritual transformation and makes a life-changing decision to travel to war-torn East Africa. After witnessing unspeakable horrors faced by innocent children, he vows to save them at any cost, including his own safety. Childers begins waging a relentless battle against the territory's renegade militia, leading harrowing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAC RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ma

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Summary: The cubs learn lessons from their parents and neighbors about the importance of Easter, helping others, and the value of the truth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Wonder 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BER