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Summary: History meets mystery in this PBS series, with four feature-length episodes set at the height of World War II. War has torn the social fabric of the once quiet coastal community of Hastings and DCS Christopher Foyle's investigations explore the violence and opportunism that the conflict has fostered on the home front.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

Summary: Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FOY

Summary: The acclaimed detective series returns with three new mysteries set in the uncertain days at the beginning of the Cold War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

Summary: Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: Presents a tale inspired by the daughters of "Kingmaker" Richard, fifteenth-century Earl of Warwick, who uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Books 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gregory 2012

Griffin, W. E. B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1983

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now. David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: The Civil War did not end quietly. It climaxed in a storm of fury that lay waste to everything in its path. The Fateful Lightning brings to life those final brutal, bloody months of fighting with you-are-there immediacy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015

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

Watkins, Steve

Summary: When a ghost from the Civil War--a teenage Union soldier--appears to Anderson and his friends, demanding to know what happened to his brother, it's up to Anderson, Greg, and Julie to solve the mystery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WAT

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WAT

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015

Davies, Jacqueline

Summary: "Explores the distinctive power of poetry and love--fourth grade style"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAV

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAV

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shaara 2011

Churchill, Winston

Summary: An account of the year 1942 that led to the invasion of Sicily, through the ebb and flow of warfare in Africa, and the discouragingly slow job of reconquest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1950

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHU

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant's successes by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

Griffin, W. E. B.

Summary: A novel following the struggles of fighting men in the Philippines, Budapest, Washington, and Cairo in 1943.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Aaron, Jason

Summary: "Luke trains for the Arena of Death, Chewbacca and C-3PO search for Luke, and Han and Leia convince Sana to help them rescue their friend. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AAR

Hunter, Stephen

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Summary: July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature--German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It's clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUN

Willink, Jocko

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Summary: Marc makes a new friend in the neighborhood who also wants to be a Warrior Kid, so he looks to Uncle Jake for help in creating lessons in "How to Be a Warrior Kid."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jocko Publishing in association with Di Angelo Publications 2020

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Tyers, Kathy.

Summary: The Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost, and Luke Skywalker has a vision, with the message that he must go there or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought for.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TYE

Earhart, Kristin.

Summary: It's Happy Go Lucky's first time riding in a show. With his favorite rider, Ivy, by his side, Happy is going to do the best he can.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE EAR

Perry, Anne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PER

Turtledove, Harry.

Summary: In the story of an alternate World War II that considers what might have happened if Chamberlain had chosen not to appease Hitler, the Germans fight with England and France to defeat Russia, while the United States struggles in a war against Japan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

Green, Jocelyn

Summary: "Richmond, Virginia, 1863. Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRE

Reasoner, James.

Summary: After finding Lucille Farrell, Cory Brannon considers supplying the South with food and weapons, while his brothers enjoy a brief visit home before returning to fight with the Confederate army in Fredericksburg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REA

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