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 PACYeoman, R. S. (Richard S.)
Summary: "Since 1946 the Guide Book of United States Coins has served collectors as the preeminent annual reference for coin specifications, mintages, values, and photographs. With more than 22 million copies in print, the Guide Book is well established as the hobby's most popular reference. The Professional Edition of the Guide Book of United States Coins builds on this foundation. This expanded and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Whitman Publishing, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 737.4 YEOFranks, Norman L. R.
Summary: Outlines the history of aerial combat, describes the characteristics of famous fighters from biplanes to jets, and shares the experiences of fighter pilots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.4009 FRASummary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXOPalacio, R. J.
Summary: Tells the story of Julian's Grandmaere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC PALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Palacio 2019Neumann, Glenn.
Contents: Issues of: 1886, 1887, 1888 and 1889.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 NEU1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 NEU
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEUWegman, Mark
Summary: Over the course of 15 years, author Mark Wegman researched original railroad company drawings, records, and even paint chips to render 180 color profiles, front view, top views, and interior layouts representing the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives and the passenger cars of more than 40 of the most celebrated golden-age "name" trains across the nation. Wegman's drawings are accompanied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crestline, an imprint of Book Sales, a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 WEGNeumann, Glenn
Contents: Issues of: 1883, 1884 and 1885
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 NEUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEULake, Theia
Summary: "The first African American flying unit in the U.S. military were called the Tuskegee Airmen. They trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama and flew more than 1,500 missions. During World War II, these men became some of the most decorated servicemen of the Army Air Forces. In this informative book, readers will learn about all about the Tuskegee Airmen, the missions they accomplished,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 LAKNeumann, Glenn
Contents: Issues of: 1880, 1881 and 1882
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEUNeumann, Glenn.
Contents: Issues of 1870
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 NEUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 NEUBerman, Ari
Summary: "On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a riveting and alarming account of the continuing battle over the right to vote The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 BERBerman, Bob
Summary: "'Zapped' tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the nineteenth century to their central role in modern life. Along the way, Berman sets the record straight on the health costs (and benefits) of radiation and explores the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535 BERNewton, Michael
Summary: Orrin Porter Rockwell is more than just a deputy United States marshal and a deadly gunfighter. He's a member of the Mormon Danites, the group of enforcers known as the Avenging Angels, and he's the personal troubleshooter for Governor Brigham Young. And when Young sends Rockwell to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Tartarus, there'll be plenty of trouble for him to shoot. A group of Mormon...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEWPenman, Sharon Kay
Summary: The Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem following the First Crusade, Baudouin IV, struggles to hold his throne despite political intrigue, personal health risks, and the growing threat of Saladin and his army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENSummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYPerre, Selma van de
Summary: An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a 98-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness (Edith Eger, author of 'The Choice and The Gift').
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERRE, SELMA VAN DE PERHerman, Gail
Summary: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the shortstop and captain of the New York Yankees.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015