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Basilone, John 1916-1945 Leckie, Robert 1920-2001 Military campaigns Mishima, Yukio 1925-1970 Drama Monroe, Marilyn 1926-1962 Fiction Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant) 1923- Time travel Fiction United States. Marine Corps. Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1946 Fiction Young adult fictionAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ATKSummary: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Summary: While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Series John 2008Collins, Max Allan.
Summary: Hired by Marilyn Monroe to listen to threatening phone calls from a movie studio that wants to fire her, private investigator Nate Heller discovers a conspiracy to murder the iconic star and faces a career-ending challenge when Monroe turns up dead. Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLLeigh, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIHeymann, C. David (Clemens David)
Summary: An in-depth look at the much talked-about -- but never fully revealed -- relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy that began as a result of their shared grief over the assassination of the president in 1963 and lasted until Bobby began his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KENNEDY FAMILY HeyYi, Chi-min
Summary: American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YIWilliams, Michelle
Summary: While filming "The prince and the showgirl," an assistant director befriends Marilyn Monroe and shows her what life in London is like without the spotlight of celebrity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MYSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACGold, Glen David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLSummary: H.G. Wells, whose time-travel pursuit of Jack the Ripper delivers him to a modern-day San Francisco, discovers a society far different from the utopia he had envisioned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TIMCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: Walter Gibson arrives in New York to assist Welles on a film project while Welles is involved in the broadcast of The War of the Worlds. This Halloween prank created panic among listeners who believed the Martian attack was real. Was Welles doing something else during the actual broadcast? Did Welles murder his mistress on that night?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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Summary: When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells' War of the Worlds, three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue, replete with cameos by such figures as a young Edgar Allan Poe, Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from "The map of time'.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPalma, Félix J.
Summary: London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem -- to escape it or to change it. Hidden in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBarry, Gene
Summary: Martians invade a small town in 1950s California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI WARLansdale, Joe R.
Summary: H. G. Wells and Ned the Seal assist two shipwreck survivors, save a famous apeman, and set out on a quest for magic Golden Fleece --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANPalma, Felix J.
Summary: "The action of the wondrous final volume in Spanish author Palmaas speculative thriller trilogy (which began with "The Map of Time" unfolds in several Victorian eras in parallel universes, beginning with esteemed biologist Herbert George Wells' attempt to create a virus that will allow the residents of his doomed steampunk world to escape to another realm free of threat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALSummary: After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI THISummary: Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Invictus 2009Herrero, Nieves.
Summary: Primavera de 1953 en Madrid? No sabía quién era ese hombre que centraba todas las miradas. Ahora que lo veía de frente, comprobó que poseía un gran atractivo. Parecía muy delgado, con unos ojos llenos de vida y una sonrisa tremendamente magnética. Le examinaba a poca distancia cuando él paró de hablar al sentirse observado. Todos se giraron para saber el motivo de su silencio y descubrieron a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: La Esfera de los Libros 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC HERSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACShabazz, Ilyasah
Summary: Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's nothing but a pack of lies -- after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SHASummary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008