Summary: Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOY PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYThallon, Rob.
Summary: "Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction. Inside you'll find hundreds of meticulous drawings illustrating every detail you might ever want to know about when building wood, whether you're building basement walls or framing a chimney opening. This wealth of visual information is mined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ZOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Zookeeper's 2017Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoBerry, Steve
Summary: Former Justice Department Agent Cotton Malone learns of a private auction for incriminating information about Poland's president. The price of admittance is one of the precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ. Malone steals the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to both Christians and the Polish people, and then attends the auction. But things go awry, and Malone is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERAvi
Summary: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AVIDewdney, Anna
Summary: "Join Llama Llama as he makes his way from A to Z in this colorful ABC board book illustrated in the classic Anna Dewdney style. From crayons to ice cream to kisses, Llama Llama introduces you to all of his favorite things"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DEWSummary: Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUTSummary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURSummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda, the final film in his celebrated war trilogy, entwines the story of one man's moral crisis on the final day of World War II with the fate of a nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ASHGilbert, Joanne D.
Summary: "Four stories of Polish women who resisted the Nazis during World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GILSummary: Set in pre-World War II Poland, a man visits the sanatorium where his father is dying and enters the surreal world where he relives some of his past and encounters strangeness at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mr. Bongo Worldwide 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An Italian-American teenage gang prowl the Bronx in 1963 feeling that something is slipping away from them as they are about to graduate high school. This is a rich fabric of comedy and tragedy, fantasy and farce that recalls every mystery and complexity of adolescence. Wonderful '60's soundtrack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WANSummary: Romek is a Jewish boy from Krakow hiding out with a rural Catholic family in Poland in 1943. Romek soons finds himself in an ackward position with the other children of the village, who don't know whether to view the newcomer as a friend or rival. In a catechism class taught by a local priest, Ramek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Edges 2005Summary: A mother bear's cub dies in the Arctic wild, and her mate steals a human boy to be their son. The mother bear loves the child more with each passing day, and he grows as wild and free as the strongest bear. When the boy's human father arrives to take him back, the child must choose his own destiny. Can her return to the life of humankind, or will his heart forever be the heart of a beast?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Central Park Media 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BOYMilani, Alice
Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CURSummary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFRoy, Robert L.
Summary: Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers and owner-builders—methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. And while there are many good books on traditional timber framing, this is the first to describe in depth these more common fastening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662 ROYSummary: Warsaw, December 1945: the Second World War is finally over and Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic one night begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INNSummary: Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE QUABall, Georgia
Summary: In one of the darkest periods in history, a young Jewish boy struggles to survive as he escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland. Does he have what it takes to survive the Nazis--and fight back?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC TARStreisand, Barbra
Summary: In turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe where women are denied higher education, Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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Summary: In this engaging concept board book, Llama Llama learns about such opposites as big and small, awake and asleep, open and closed, and helps little ones learn them, too!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DEWSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007