Ackerman, Sara
Summary: In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. Not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits meet resistance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACKGraff, Garrett M.
Summary: "The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 GRASummary: Presents a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long range affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRSummary: Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, the film brings to life the three central characters; Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev, and explores how the world's most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUBSummary: War game: A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: Eccentric genius Walter O'Brien and his team of brilliant misfits continue to be the last line of defense against the complex, high-tech threats of the modern age as they solve extreme, life-threatening cases, including a global extinction event, a nuclear missile launch on U.S. soil, and even the perils of geniuses trying to start a family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Available together for the first time in one collectible DVD set... the first four seasons of the dynamic television drama series The Good Wife. Julianna Margulies stars as Alicia Florrick, who must re-enter the workforce after her husband's high-profile sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Through four compelling TV seasons, Alicia grows determined to transform herself from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: USA National Air Raid Drill; Cold War civil defense
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Summary: Starfleet continues to oversee the day-to-day operations of DS9, the former mining space-station occupied by the Cardassians. It becomes a center of travel and commerce thanks to the stable wormhole, leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant. Now after two years, the Dominion, inhabitants of the Gamma Quadrant and a hierarchy of three separate species, the xenophobic Changelings, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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Summary: Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of using everyday citizens to spy and inform on their peers. Citizen Spies shows how If You See...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 REESummary: This Universal newsreel focuses on civil defense during the Cold War. A new housing development near Denver, Colo., exhibits the first model homes constructed with a built-in fallout shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Allen, Terry
Contents: Houdini didn't like the spiritualists (featuring Shannon McNally) -- Abandonitis -- Death of the last stripper -- All that's left is fare-thee-well (featuring Charlie Sexton) -- Pirate Jenny -- American childhood trilogy I : civil defense -- American childhood trilogy II : bad kiss -- American childhood trilogy III : little puppet thing -- All these blues go walkin' by (featuring Shannon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ALLContents: 1. Links on the chain -- Blowin' in the wind -- Paths of victory -- The ballad of Ira Hayes -- Ain't that news? -- The times I've had -- Go limp -- Ding dong dollar -- Mack the bomb -- The civil defense sign -- Let me die in my footsteps -- Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian roulette -- What have they done to the rain? -- Ballad of William Worthy -- Train for Auschwitz -- Do as the Doukhobors do --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BESSummary: Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore settles in at a wealthy and powerful legal firm that focuses primarily on civil cases. With some help from veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Brooks, Victor.
Summary: Describes the battles that took place at six different forts during the Civil War: Sumter, Henry and Donelson, Vicksburg, Wagner, and Fisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000