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Summary: "Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRANE, LEON MURMurphy, Brian
Summary: Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CRANE, LEON MURMurphy, Brian
Summary: "The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Describes the 1856 maritime tragedy of a ship traveling to New York that hit an iceberg and left its passengers adrift four hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 MURHayes, Neil
Summary: Based on exhaustive reporting and interviews, "The Last Putt" tells the story of an epic rivalry that encapsulated the changing face of golf. On one side was Oklahoma State, and on the other side was the Stanford Cardinal--with a freshman named Tiger Woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 HAYSholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOMurphy, Eddie
Summary: When leaves start falling from a magical tree in his yard, a fast-talking literary agent discovers that he has to let his actions speak louder than his words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ThSummary: After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, Lisa Reisert boards the dreaded red eye for a flight back to Miami so she can make it to work the next day. On board, Lisa meets Jackson Ripner and their attraction grows. But moments after take-off, Jackson reveals that he has Lisa's father's wallet that he swiped off his desk and his real reason for being on board. Jackson needs Lisa's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER REDContents: Let us get together (5:10) -- Surrender to love (5:33) -- Yeah, yeah, yeah (3:55) -- Angel of darkness (4:41) -- Darling be home soon (5:05) -- I ain't gonna work tomorrow (3:43) -- Success (4:32) -- Carvan (5:43) -- When I stop loving you (5:57) -- Old Dangerfield (5:12) -- Big river (4:59) -- It ain't gonna be a good night (4:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023