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Eriksen, Marcus

Summary: "An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" Over the past several years, the news media has brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic litter in the ocean--into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 ERI

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Martel, Yann

Summary: Patel Pi is a young man living in India, his father is the owner and manager of the zoo in the city but decided to emigrate to Canada and seek a better life through the sale of animals. After complex procedures, the family begins a journey Patel that is cut short by tragedy: a terrible storm wrecks the ship they are traveling on. Pi will have to use his talents to survive while he also deals...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Destino,  2003

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH MAR

Strayed, Cheryl

Summary: Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous thousand-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 STRAYED, CHERL STR

Sides, Hampton

34 holds on 5 copies

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SID

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SID

Vincent, Lynn

Summary: "Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 VIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 VIN

Vincent, Lynn

Summary: Based on new primary sources and interviews with 108 survivors, Vincent and Vladic reveal the untold stories of the crew left adrift for five days in the Philippine Sea as they battled dehydration, sharks, insanity, and each other; the Army spy who shepherded the bomb aboard Indianapolis; the hidden history of the Top Secret ULTRA program that could have saved the ship; and the survivors'...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 VIN

Hagen, Pal Sverre

Summary: Determined to prove a theory, explorer Thor Heyerdahl leads the Kon-Tiki expedition as he and his crew travel from South America and Polynesia on a raft made from balsa wood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KON
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KON

Patterson, Kevin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9164 PAT

Schmidt, Shannon McKenna

Summary: "On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCH

Summary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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

Summary: "In Japanese, tora means "tiger." In December of 1941, "tiger, tiger, tiger" was the code phrase that unleashed one of history's most devastating surprise attacks. But the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor also awakened the "sleeping giant" of American military might, and in the process, sealed Japan's fate"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PEA

Abraham, Philip

Summary: Relates the courage of John F. Kennedy during World War II, especially in saving his crew when they were stranded in the South Pacific after their PT boat was rammed by a Japanese warship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5459 ABR

Donovan, Robert J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 DON

Summary: After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIL

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wild 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIL RATED R

Strayed, Cheryl

Summary: Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.6 STR

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STRAYED, CHERYL Str

Martel, Yann.

Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAR

Summary: Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ADR

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Adrift 2018

Strayed, Cheryl

Summary: Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 STR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.6 STR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRAYED, CHERYL STR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B STRAYED STR

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Cook, Peter

Summary: Shows life on the whaling ship Essex through the eyes of a young boy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2004

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Set You Cook

Moran, Michael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.504 MOR

Korda, Michael

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Kershaw, Alex

Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 Kershaw 2008

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