Summary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINEisner, Peter
Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISSummary: 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 PACSchwantes, Carlos A.
Summary: "The West the Railroads Made" recounts the stories of visionaries such as Henry Harmon Spalding, Samuel Parker, and Asa Whitney, who imagined the railroad as a new Northwest Passage, an iron road through the West to the Orient. As the idea of a Pacific Railroad grew in the 1840s and 1850s, many Americans imagined the West as a fertile garden or a treasure chest of priceless minerals. Railroads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press in association with Washington State Historical Society and the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 SCHSummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: In First blood, an ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam is searching for peace, but finds instead an overzealous, small town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANMalam, John
Summary: Describes what it would be like to be a ship captain captured by priates during the 1700s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Set You 364.16 MalamCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAL (BASKET)Summary: Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning masterpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANNRazak, Melody
Summary: "The saga of one family's trials through India's tumultuous partition-when Pakistan split from India-exploring its impact on women, what it means to be othered, and the redemptive power of family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAZAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIMack, John
Summary: A personal memoir about John Mack, the former CEO of Morgan Stanley, which recounts how he helped grow the company over four decades, fostered a collaborative culture, and led the company through the 2008 financial crisis.--adapted from cover page 2
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACK, JOHN MACContents: Els segadors / Spanish traditional (4:13) -- The ballad of the fallen : folk song from El Salvador (4:19) -- If you want to write me / Spanish traditional (3:55) -- Grandola vila morena / José Alfonson (2:11) -- Introduction to people / Carla Bley (3:55) -- The people united will never be defeated / Sergio Ortega (1:37) -- Silence / Charlie Haden (5:45) -- Too late / Carla Bley (8:20) -- La...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Poldark, the drama that has become a cultural phenomenon, continues for a second season on the stunning beaches of Cornwall. It's 1790 and there is riot and revolution in the air. Ross Poldark, the character redefined by the smoldering Aidan Turner, must fight for his freedom when George Warleggan tries to have him hanged as a revolutionary. While Francis and Elizabeth watch on in horror, can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD POL NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Po 2Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Poldark 2016Summary: A collection of Tom Selleck's greatest westerns including: Monte Walsh, Last Stand at Saber River and Crossfire Trail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TNT Originals 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TOMMalam, John
Summary: A Brief Illustrated History of Science' charts the history of scientific discoveries all the way through from prehistory to Aristotle, then through the works of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Linnaeus, and right through to the incredible scientific breakthroughs of today. With stunning full-color images and illustrations, this beautiful book is sure to fascinate and charm the young reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509 MALSummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: 17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSteel, Charlie
Summary: The discovery of gold in California launched a stampede of fortune-seekers across the continent in search of wealth. Willing to face any hardship -- outlaws, hostile Indians, bad weather, thirst, starvation, and the horrors of disease -- they battled fiercely to overcome these challenges and seize their destiny. But sometimes the treasures they found were not the ones they were expecting . . .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEAngus, Charlie
Summary: "The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago -- theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ANGKirk, Charlie
Summary: An overview of the tenets of Donald Trump and his supporters, explaining their worldview and goals for the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 KIRFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case. But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen, Lenox welcomes the chance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021