Summary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003

Follett, Ken.

Summary: Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1989

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOL

Follett, Ken.

Summary: Set in the twelfth-century England when the empress Maud and Stephen are fighting for the crown of England after the death of Henry, chronicles the struggle to build a cathedral.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOL

Golding, William

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1964

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOL

Murkoff, Bruce

Summary: Their lives and dreams dramatically compromised by the Great Depression, three individuals journey to the vast construction site of the Hoover Dam in Nevada in the hopes of starting their lives over or exacting revenge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUR

Summary: The sophomore season of the hit tech-centered drama hits the ground running. It's March 1985. More than a year has passed since Joe MacMillan set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs, the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible. The Giant is about to go the way of the dinosaur, like any number of personal computers to enter the market...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAL

Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014

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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WIN

Mills, DiAnn

Summary: "On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Ng, Yvonne

Summary: "A boy walks home one day, only to find his street under construction! As he enjoys watching the excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, and more, he gets a sense of the building process from start to finish. From blueprints to demolition to fresh, new asphalt, friendly, bright illustrations show the construction machines and workers up close"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NG

Summary: An undercover cop gets pulled into a gang that races cars late at night through city streets when the leader is suspected of stealing electronic equipment. The cop is swept up by the adrenaline rush of the race and falls for the gang leader's sister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa

Summary: Now married to Suzanne, Nick buys a suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper," he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor, Nick's suburban dream soon becomes a nightmare.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD A

Summary: Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa 4

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAS

Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN

Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUS

Brooks, Malcolm

Summary: "In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother.His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO

Summary: Gypsy Esmerelda and malformed bellringer Quasimodo fall victim to the machinations of church and underworld leaders in medieval Paris.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUN

Harper, Charise Mericle.

Summary: "Little Green only knows one word: 'Go!' It's the perfect thing to get the construction site moving, but how will they stop?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HAR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HAR

Summary: A former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAL

Manushkin, Fran

Summary: Katie's class is invited to see a new house a classmate's father is building, where they learn the steps to building a house and even who the new homeowner is. Includes glossary, discussion questions, and an interview.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Zusak, Markus

Summary: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZUS

Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIN RATED PG-13

Steggall, Susan.

Summary: Uses rhyming text to follow different construction vehicles, including bulldozers, diggers, and trucks, as they build a group of houses.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE STE