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Artists Cahun, Claude 1894-1954 Channel Islands History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art Part-songs, Sacred, German Part-songs, Sacred, Latin United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 153rd (1862-1865) Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta 1843-1864 Women soldiersLeroy, Margaret.
Summary: While her husband is away in the army, Vivienne de la Mare, living in a farmhouse on World War II-occupied Guernsey in the Channel Island with her two daughters and mother-in-law, falls in love with a German officer and must make a difficult decision that could tear her family apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion/Voice 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERSummary: One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ISLRowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHStephenson, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5342 SteHorlock, Mary.
Summary: Dwelling on the dark and difficult truths hidden within a family and on an island during the Second World War, The Book of Lies spins together the stories - told forty years apart - of Catherine and Charlie, who come to understand that no truth is as simple as it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORAndrade, Allan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tern Book Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 ANDJackson, Jeffrey H.
Summary: "The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler andcalls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACSummary: "Shoah Ambassadors centers around two local twenty-year-old individuals hearing stories of the Holocaust from survivors themselves. Together, through their own personal expressions of music and sculpture, our ambassadors bridge the chasm between the generation who endured the nightmare of World War II and today's bright-eyed, tech-savvy youths who may have only a limited grasp of what their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SHOHollows, M. J.
Summary: "Her past could kill you. Guernsey, 1940. As war storms through Europe, Churchill orders the evacuation of all military personnel from the island. Boats ferry soldiers and vulnerable young children to England, leaving their parents and loved ones behind to face the invading German army on their own. Her love could save you. One of the few remaining policemen on the island, Jack must protect not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hollows 2021Summary: After Nazi Germany invades the British Channel Islands in the summer of 1940, occupiers and occupied settle into an uneasy coexistence. But when does cooperation become collaboration? What if passion meets restraint? Includes thirteen episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENEEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Coco Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, she wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWEOwings, Alison.
Summary: What were the women of Germany doing during the Third Reich? What were they thinking? And what do they have to say a half century later? In Frauen we hear their voices - most for the first time. Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of twenty-nine German women who were there: Working for the Resistance. Joining the Nazi Party. Outsmarting the Gestapo. Disliking a Jewish neighbor....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 OWIChancellor, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 CHASummary: Notoriously camera-shy, Lewitt refused awards and rarely granted interviews, yet in this cinematic portrait, the pioneering conceptual American artist comes alive. Using extensive interviews and documentation of artwork installed around the world, director Chris Teerink explores the artist's work and philosophy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOLContents: Alma redemptoris mater / (Sequentia) -- O Jerusalem / Hildegard Von Bingen (Sequentia) -- Congaudeant catholici / Magister Albertus Parisienis (Sequentia) -- Sederunt principes / Perotinus (Deller-Consort) -- Pero que seja a gente / (Sequentia) -- Alleluja, V. inclite du Benedicte Benedicte merita / (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) -- Petre Clemens, tam re quam nimine lugentium siccentur occuli...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics, c p1997. 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CENAnonymous 4 (Musical group)
Contents: Prosa : Gaude virgo salutata (chant) (1:39) -- Polyphonic song : Edi beo thu hevene quene (3:34) -- Introit : Salve mater redemptoris/Salve lux langentium/Salve sine spina/Salve sancta parens (2:50) -- Motet : Lux polis refulgens/Lux et gloria (3:19) -- Kyrie : Kyria christifera (3:57) --Gloria (2:59) -- Motet : Spiritus et alme/Gaude virgo salutata (1:49) -- Song : Miro genere (1:33) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ANOContents: Salve scema sanctitatis / John Dunstable (Pro Cantione Antiqua)-- Gloria / Leonel Power (Pro Cantione Antiqua) -- Las je ne puis / Jean Legrant -- El ferrarese / Antiono Cornazano [i.e. Cornazzano] -- Je loe amours / Gilles Binchois -- La figlio guiliemino / Domenico De Piacenza [i.e. Domenico da Piacenza] (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) --Maria suesse meichdekyn -- Ghat sytten gij leven kynder /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics, c p1997. 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CENAvery, Jaha Nailah
Summary: The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 305.896 AVELapati, JoAnna
Summary: "Through scratchboard art and quotes from the subject's letters, this picture book biography follows the life of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who served in the Union army disguised as a man. Back matter materials include an author's note, two glossaries, recommended reading, a timeline of events, and additional historical information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAKKarger, Dave
Summary: "Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 KARSummary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETBingham, Clara
Summary: "As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016