Summary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002

Green, Jen.

Summary: A humorous look at the polar expedition of Ernest Shackleton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2001

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set You Wouldn't 919.8 Green 2001

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rand Communications 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PUR

Roop, Connie.

Summary: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROO

Summary: True story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventures. Bound for Antarctica in 1914, Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ten months later, the ship sank, stranding Shackleton and his crew of 27. Based on the diaries and first person accounts of expedition members, the film tells of their ordeal and their 800-mile journey in an open boat across the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Entertainment 2002

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

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.

Summary: Tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.804 MAR

Summary: On the planet Cybertron, a war was waged between the Autobots and the Decepticons for control of the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Allspark is smuggled off the planet, but Megatron goes in search of it. He tracks it to Earth and his desire for power sends him into the Arctic Ocean. The sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Transformers 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRA RATED PG13

Summary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Summary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

Contents: There'll be some changes made ; Ain't nobody truck like you ; Long ago ; What's the matter? ; Same thing all the time ; One of us was wrong ; Black and blue ; How come (you do me like you do do do) ; Please sing for me (doodle-lee-doo) ; Just blues ; Why shouldn't I? ; (Bring it on down) to my house ; Turn your lights down low ; Wabash blues (Ocie Stockard & the Wanderers) -- The range rider's...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WES

Summary: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLA

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLA

Summary: In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GIA

Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PRE

Summary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COU

Poe, Mayumi Shimose

Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POE

Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

Summary: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WIL

Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Direct 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CL Dvorak

L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988

Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAM