Summary: It tells the story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the United States transformed into the "land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Viewers will be transported into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws, and lawmen. The eight-episode limited event series chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: 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 PACSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5403 MCCSummary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HANSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit "boudoir photographs" of the town's local ladies of the night. But when two of her models are found gruesomely murdered within weeks of one another, Sarah begins to suspect it's more than mere coincidence. Teamed with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M ROWSummary: Set in the ruthless world of San Francisco in the late 1800s, rival Chinatown crime families are pitted against each other, against the police, and against an overtly racist white working class.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WARLewis, J. Patrick
Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWSummary: This is the shocking true story of the Battle of Isandlwana: in January 1879, arrogant officials of the British colony of Natal, Africa issued a list of unauthorized ultimatums to the Zulu Nation. When the Zulu king refused their demands, the empire declared war. And in a series of grave tactical blunders, a garrison of 1,500 British soldiers faced an army of 25,000 enraged Zulu warriors in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ZULJones-Radgowski, Jehan
Summary: "With the stroke of a pen, President Abraham Lincoln freed the South's enslaved people in the midst of the brutal U.S. Civil War. Or did he? Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free? What effect did it have on the course of the Civil War? And what became of the inkstand with which he wrote the famous document? Find the answers to these questions and discover more of what an artifact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.714 JONSummary: Working for change: Explores the birth of the social documentary in the U.S. and U.K. during the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOSummary: This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NORGrant, Joan
Summary: In Winged Pharaoh, Joan Grant tells the story of Sekeeta, the Pharoah's daughter. The ancient Egyptians reserved the title of "Winged Pharaoh" for ruler-priests who possessed extra-sensory powers. When Sekeeta demonstrates psychic abilities, she is sent to the temple and trained to recall past lives. Upon the death of her father, she becomes a "winged Pharaoh" - both priestess and Pharaoh - and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABiskupic, Joan
Summary: "Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of women's abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Today's bench--with its conservative majority--is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 BISHolub, Joan.
Contents: What was the first Thanksgiving? -- Puritans -- Sailing to America -- Land! -- A new home -- Making friends -- The first Thanksgiving -- Fun and games -- Trouble -- A Thanksgiving holiday -- Thanksgiving today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: J 974.4 HOLSummary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOOSummary: Three years have passed since the Leman Street locomotive disaster, when DI Edmund Reid is forced to return to Whitechapel to help clear his former associate's name. Once again Reid finds himself, along with DS Drake, plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to overtake London's East End on the eve of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee celebration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIPHolub, Joan
Summary: "Building the most magical place on earth was no fairy tale. Learn the story behind the creation of Walt Disney World. In 1964, when Walt Disney and his brother Roy decided to build a second theme park in the Florida swamplands, they kept it super hush-hush. Why? Well, if word got out that they planned to buy up lots of land, the price would have skyrocketed. So the Disneys cleverly covered up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791.06 HOLSummary: It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINMeacham, Jon
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 MEATarshis, Lauren
Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016