Summary: Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYSummary: Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2007
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IRASummary: A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WMorel, Olivier
Summary: A gripping graphic novel illustrates the challenges of Iraq War veterans as well as their inspiring triumphs. After the shock of 9/11, for hundreds of thousands of young Americans there was Ar Ramadi, Baghdad, Abu Ghraib--the war in Iraq. Then came the trauma. From the torment of these vets to their reflections, this book demonstrates the seemingly impossible return of those who aspire to get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 MORColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 COLSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSummary: Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PIE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIE
Coker, Margaret
Summary: "From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COKSummary: It's Election Day on a remote island off the coast of Iran and a ballot box is parachuted to shore. An unnamed soldier is assigned to escort a female bureaucrat to gather votes. Together, they embark on a chaotic journey, turning the island upside down desperately seeking anyone's vote! There is more to the Secret Ballot than the two could ever imagine!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SecLowe, Lindsey
Summary: "The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was home to ancient Mesopotamia—the “cradle of civilization.” It was the birthplace of a number of innovations in areas such as transportation, irrigation, and the construction of cities. Readers take a deep dive into the ways residents of ancient Mesopotamia used what we now call STEM concepts in their everyday life. This cross-curricular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 609.35 LOWSummary: Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THAAbdul-Ahad, Ghaith
Summary: "An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ABDMcMann, Lisa
Summary: "The Forgotten Five work to stop President Fuerte from using his supernatural army to sabotage Magdalia Palacio's campaign"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Bobb, Christina
Summary: "Stealing Your Vote tells the story of corruption within the Democratic Party--but also reveals the cowardice throughout the Republican Party, as fat and happy politicians from both parties desperately worked to protect the status quo. Bobb also tells the story of a handful of brave patriots who tried, and continue trying, to find out just what happened in 2020."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BOBJones, Nashae
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Erin discovers she is the daughter of the love god Cupid, she uses her newfound ability to sabotage her rival Trevor by making him fall in love with her, but she soon realizes love has a funny way of complicating things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JONCorso, Phil
Summary: "The Electoral College is the body of people who elect the president and vice president of the United States. Many U.S. citizens are confused by this system, which dates back to the creation of the U.S. Constitution. When citizens vote for a presidential candidate, they're actually voting for an elector -- someone who will cast a vote for their state for that candidate in the Electoral College....
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 CORIsikoff, Michael
Summary: "In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In his epic and engaging documentary of life in Baghdad before and after the 2003 US invasion, Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel acquaints us with a moving portrait of his own family and friends as they struggle in the advent and the uncertain aftermath of war. Displaying courage, grace and even humor after decades of deprivation through conflict, international sanctions, and totalitarian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOMSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATRAPI, MARJANE SATSummary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKSummary: "The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. Horrifying and hilarious, this satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election reveals a fake news empire and the tactics of information warfare"--container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OURTodd, Charles.
Summary: Seven years after sending Ben Shaw to the gallows for the brutal murders of elderly women, Inspector Ian Rutledge is approached by Shaw's widow, who claims that her husband had been innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODDiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom finds its future endangered by its past. Even as Kuvira stands trial for her crimes, vestiges of her imperial ambitions threaten to undermine the nation's democratic hopes. But when Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin don't all see eye-to-eye as to the solution, drastic measures will be taken to halt a new march to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019