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Bank robberies West (U.S.) Drama Gangs United States Drama James, Frank 1844-1915 Drama James, Jesse 1847-1882 Drama Military deserters Railroads West (U.S.) Design and construction Drama Special operations (Military science) Train robberies West (U.S.) Drama United States West (U.S.) DramaSummary: In 1931, Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: Spain, 1931 is a politically divided nation and on the brink of war. With allegiances torn between Republican and Traditionalist factions, Fernando, a disillusioned soldier, has chosen a third option, going AWOL. Fate intervenes during his escape when he meets Manolo, an admiring land owner who sees himself mirrored in the young man and welcomes him into his home, a home inhabited by Manolo's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URLSweet, Matthew
Summary: "Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars--but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It's a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies--agents who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 SWESummary: Risking their lives on deadly undercover missions around the globe, the Unit is a highly skilled, ultra-secret contingent of special forces soldiers operating outside the traditional chain of military command. The hunters become the hunted as the team and their families are targeted by a deadly and far-reaching conspiracy forcing them to relocate and assume new identities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement, and becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETRimmer, Kelly
Summary: "Berlin, Germany, 1930--When the Nazis rise to power, Jürgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jürgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soon becomes clear that if Jürgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RimmerSummary: England during the English Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O'Neil and Cutler. O'Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A German army deserter finds an abandoned Nazi captain's uniform in the final weeks of World War II. Emboldened by the authority the uniform grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers who cede to his command despite the suspicions of some. Citing direct orders from the Fuhrer himself, he soon takes command of a camp holding German soldiers accused of desertion and begins to dispense harsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAPJacobsen, Annie.
Summary: Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013
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Summary: "A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world...A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021
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Summary: "While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, SAGA follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2023
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Summary: A year after a trained assassin with classified Army intelligence disappears under suspicious circumstances, the efforts of Army investigator Scott Brodie to capture the man alive are complicated by his partner's inexperience and suspected role as a CIA spy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEMSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Vaughan, Brian K.
Summary: At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back in a new story arc. This story picks up three years after the events at the end of issue 54. Hazel, now ten years old, is living on the run with her mother Alana, who has partnered with a drug smuggler named Bombazine. Hazel acts confident and cheerful, but inside, she is torn up about her father's death. This collection features...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUDeMille, Nelson
Summary: When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DEMSummary: The team scrambles to make sense of the disintegration of the unit. The unit reunites to rescue Mack and clear their names. Nerve gas is stolen and the team is sent to retrieve it. Jonas tests his daughter's strength and conviction when she decides to enlist. The team deals with a loss and Jonas vows revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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Summary: Civil War veteran Bobby Hale journeys into the Plains Wars-stricken American West, discovering a sense of purpose through his encounters with Native Americans and settlers who scrabble for peace and survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WESTERN BAUVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: After a dramatic time jump, Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUSummary: Angela is a university student in Madrid writing her thesis about violence in the media. During her research, she comes across a shocking 'snuff' film (a film where a murder is actually committed for the camera) that has apparently been shot on the campus. Investigating further, she uncovers clues that the university's administrators may be involved in an unexplained series of student...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TESBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: "They are The Unit, a covert Special Forces team operating outside the usual military chain of command, risking their lives on undercover missions at home and abroad. Their identities are highly classified, a secret that's also fiercely guarded by their wives. But despite the men's determination to protect their families from the dangers of the job, they've learned that the enemy they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007