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Bank robberies West (U.S.) Drama Draft United States Drama James, Jesse 1847-1882 Drama Jewish refugees Pacifists United States Drama Railroads West (U.S.) Design and construction Drama Teenagers United States Drama Train robberies West (U.S.) Drama United States West (U.S.) DramaSummary: Based on Philip Roth's acclaimed novel, this limited series brilliantly imagines an alternate American history during WWII. Told through the eyes of the Levins, a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the six-part limited series charts the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PLOSummary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENSummary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENSummary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOMSummary: The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AVASummary: A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network tries to profit from his illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Sidran, Ben.
Summary: A comprehensive examination of Jewish influence and participation in the American popular music business, that weaves together cultural, political, musical and economic history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nardis Books, an imprint of Unlimited Media Ltd. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SIDThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The legend of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James is the bold bandit whose name became synonymous with train hold-ups, daylight bank heists and every other daredevil crime associated with the lawless West of the 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JESSummary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACRMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOFunk, McKenzie
Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHER, HANK FUNChertoff, Michael
Summary: "Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343 CHESummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURFinkelstein, Norman H.
Summary: " In 1944, at the height of World War II, 982 European refugees found a temporary haven at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. They were men, women, and children who had spent frightening years one step ahead of Nazi pursuers and death. They spoke nineteen different languages, and, while most of the refugees were Jewish, a number were Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Christians. From the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021