Contents: Panpipe ensemble, 'au tahana. Music to raise the house ; Swine shrieks ; Love song piece and ho'osia ritual ; Parrot piece ; Mound bird -- Panpipe ensemble, 'au ripi. Introduction piece ; Haridata's grief ; Popora's weeping ; the frogs of Darana ; Closing piece -- Panpipe ensemble, 'au taka'iori. Rihe piece ; Kinkina bird piece ; Infant's cry -- Panpipe ensemble, 'au keto. Stop and go ; Moaning...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Multicultural Media 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC SOLCussler, Clive.
Summary: Journeying to the Solomon Islands to hunt for treasure linked to myths about ancient atrocities, Sam and Remi Fargo follow leads to Australia and Japan, where they make a wonderful but monstrous discovery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSContents: Men's elephant-hunting song (7:28) -- Girls' echo song (1:35) -- Peipa (Girl's initiation) (2:25) -- Honey-gathering song (1:29) -- Women's wedding song (2:51) -- Net-hunting song (2:29) -- Meĺie (́4:45) -- Bow-harp and vocal (5:07) -- Ikobi (Gathering song-version 1) (1:40) -- Ikobi (version.2) (1:38) -- One-string violin (2:22) -- Lote (notched flute) (2:05)--Sanza (plucked idiophone, or...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ECHBissinger, Buzz
Summary: "When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.3320 BISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War BissingerHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In 1943, Coast Guard captain Josh Thurlow leads a desperate venture to Japanese-held islands of the South Pacific to track down a Medal of Honor hero and an ambassador's missing son.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HICHarding, Stephen
Summary: The story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, marooned on a South Pacific island, and his one-man war against Japanese forces.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Two generations of Bosavi musicians and twenty-five years of field recordings : a comprehensive and intimate musical portrait of life in a Papua New Guinea rainforest community"--Back of container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC FELSummary: They were expendable: Two PT-boat skippers defend the Philippines and give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the crippling losses at Pearl Harbor. Flying Leathernecks: An embattled Marine fighter squadron VMF 247 at Guadalcanal is led by John Wayne and campaigning to coordinate ground combat with low-flying aerial sorties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THESummary: This documentary film about the death of five brothers who symbolized America's commitment to winning the war was one of the most painful, personal tragedies of WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRUMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAIMa, Yo-Yo
Contents: Concerto for cello and orchestra / Stephen Albert (33:00) -- Concerto for viola and orchestra (op. posth.) / Béla Bartók (23:00) -- Schelomo : Hebraic rhapsody for cello and orchestra / Ernest Bloch (23:29).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MASummary: This strikingly realistic film follows a devoted platoon of Marines through the terrors of war in the South Pacific.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GUABruning, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Hammel, Eric M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 HAMRandall, Will
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.593 RANHornfischer, James D.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 HorGilani-Williams, Fawzia
Summary: " ... [A] young Uyghur girl ... is moved from place to place by a cold-hearted woman in an attempt to hide her from her parents. Despite facing many hardships, Rapunzel grows into a young lady with an inquisitive mind and a kind and generous heart. But how will she escape from the tower? Will she ever be re-united with her parents? This is an empowering Islamic adaptation of Rapunzel which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Ryan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAHavrelock, Deidre
Summary: A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Journey back 15,000 years to trace humankind's incredible journey through time. Beginning with humanity's exodus from the Ice Age and chronicling milestones such as hunter-gatherer, farmer, builder, and city organizer. Reveals how humankind managed to survive and conquer the world. Explores the motivation of early humankind and its epic transformation to reveal the inspiring story of he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRRowe, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHSummary: "A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects from the Smithsonian collections"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.0495 SMIJohansen, Iris.
Summary: Determined to protect herself from the horrors of her childhood, a young woman finds her remote island refuge terrorized by ruthless mercenaries and heads to the open seas in a perilous race against time to find the site of a lost city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003