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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellmount 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 HAGBruning, John R.
Summary: "On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Weintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIHornfischer, James D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 HorBrady, James
Summary: John Basilone was a Marine legend who received the Medal of Honor for holding off 3,000 Japanese on Guadalcanal and the Navy Cross posthumously for his bravery on Iwo Jima.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springwater 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 BRAThompson, Laura
Summary: "The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THOMacGregor, Iain
Summary: "A thrilling, vivid, and highly detailed account of the epic siege during one of World War II's most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie, Iain MacGregor. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets' hard-won victory was laid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Frank, Anne
Summary: The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom FrankCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 940.5318 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 FRAArcher, Jeffrey
Contents: v. 1. Belmarsh, hell -- v. 2. Wayland, purgatory
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 ARCArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: The author recounts his incarceration at a Norfolk medium security prison, where he makes observations about the British penal system and waits for a transfer to a minimum security establishment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 ARCAbramson, Ann
Summary: Looks closely at Anne Frank's life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding from the Nazis, and the legacy of her diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAArcher, Jeffrey
Contents: Heaven -- Back to hell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 ARCWeir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WEISledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)
Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLEFrank, Anne
Summary: This definitive edition, featuring a new translation, is the diary as Anne Frank wrote it, containing entries about her burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT People FrankSummary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WORBawlf, R. Samuel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BAWLayton, Edwin T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LAYKershaw, Alex
Summary: "From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: A compelling tale of battle rooted in one man's search for his grandfather's legacy, this work follows the members of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, United States First Division, from enlistment to combat to the effort to recover their remains, focusing on three major battles during World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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Summary: " For fans of Downton Abbey: the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 BAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars BaileyNorman, Michael
Summary: Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 940.54 NORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 NORFloyd, John Lewis
Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival FloydWukovits, John F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2006