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Cartoons and comics Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) Fiction Friendship Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Law enforcement Texas Drama Picture puzzles Sheriffs Texas Drama Voyages and travels Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 United States FictionSummary: 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 KATHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOMartin, Pedro
Summary: "Pedro/Peter Martín es un Mexikid, o un niño que nació en Estados Unidos de padres mexicanos: un niño que no pertenece a ninguno de los dos lugares. Así que no sabe qué pensar cuando su padre anuncia que toda la familia (¡11 personas!) se apretará dentro del Winnebago para manejar 2,000 millas hasta México con una misión: traer a su misterioso abuelito de la era de la Revolución Mexicana a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SPANISH MAR (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Hesse, Monica
Summary: Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: During World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower's wife Mamie knew the gossip: Ike was involved with another woman; his letters home were only tepidly reassuring. The relationship between Eisenhower and his driver/aide Kay Summersby moved from England to North Africa and then throughout Europe before and after the Normandy landing. At the end of the war, Ike is faced with the heart-wrenching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBSummary: A convict leaves jail in Texas on a parole arranged by a crooked politician, and promptly joins his wife in planning a bank robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GETFlower, Amanda
Summary: December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: One night after a storm, environmental activist Rachel Carson takes her nephew Roger out for a walk by the sea. Includes notes about Rachel Carson, the story, and bioluminescence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRIHandford, Martin
Summary: "Where's Waldo? In the spotlight ... somewhere! Now that the rest of the scene has gone dark, finding him is a new challenge"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: In an attempt to regain the upper hand for Germany in the fall of 1944, famed commando Otto Skorzeny plots to have 2,000 English-speaking soldiers infiltrate and compromise Allied lines, while a smaller band of highly skilled commandos embark an a more sinister mission with history-changing potential. -- TitleSource III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FROLong, Mark
Summary: This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2012
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LONSummary: On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ElCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ELERissman, Rebecca
Summary: When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RISBoyne, Walter J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYHinodeya, Sankichi
Summary: "You won't believe who has joined Team Blue to fill in for a missing teammate so they can compete in the Square King Ranked Battle Cup! Get ready for a whole new arc featuring some mixed-up new teams! Plus, a bonus story featuring Emperor!"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HINOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie search for the fourth secret of greatness for Merlin the Magician in Mexico City at the 1970 World Cup Games. They hope to learn something new from soccer player great, Pele"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A Stepping Stone Book, Random House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J MTH 52Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Magic OsborneHughes, Dean
Summary: Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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Summary: Set during the chaotic years of World War II, tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBSmith, Brian
Summary: "Jay the blue jay has never learned to fly, which has never been a problem . . . until a crew of super cool birds touch down at the farm and invite him to play some super cool flying games. Now Jay needs to figure out how to fly--and fast--before he misses out on all the fun. Lucky for him, his best buds Pea and Bee know just what to do."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "...Hackberry Holland makes his first appearance in this early gem...Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney yields to the myriad of urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat--and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers. And when Hack attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISMeek, James
Summary: "Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman is fleeing an odious arranged marriage, a Scottish proctor is returning home to Avignon and a handsome young ploughman in search of adventure is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books 2020