Summary: During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAISnow, Richard
Summary: "On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNOGrann, David
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9164 GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9164 GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival GrannSummary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMISummary: Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARCampbell, James.
Summary: A retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front. Among the great World War II conflicts, the three-week battle for Saipan is often forgotten--yet historian Donald Miller calls it"as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." On the night of the battle's end, the Port Chicago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5453 CAMGrann, David
Summary: "On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2023
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910 GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.9164 GRASummary: In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MUTStockwin, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STOAlexander, Caroline
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audiobooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 996.18 ALECable, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 CABPresser, Brandon
Summary: "A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.18 PREArdizzone, Edward
Summary: Tim makes friends with Lucy, who convinces her guardian to buy a yacht on which to go adventuring, but while at sea they come across some scurvy mutineers who might put an end to their fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Ardizzone 2006Dash, Mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.413 DASSummary: A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOUSummary: 1787. HMS Bounty sets out on a journey through perilous seas to a tropical paradise, and into history as the one of the most ill-fated vessels in naval lore. The gripping story centers on first officer Fletcher Christian, a dandy transformed into a man of action, and Capt. William Bligh, uncompromising in his command or his cruelty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MUTSummary: The conquest of Mexico: November 11th, 1519. Hernan Cortes must decide whether to risk attempting to conquer Mexico by defeating Montezuma. He confers with and receives valuable advice from his slave Donna Marina and his captains before coming to a critical decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS News 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV YOUAlexander, Caroline
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 996.18 ALEAvi
Summary: As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIHough, Richard Alexander
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HOUNordhoff, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORPope, Dudley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 POPPope, Dudley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2001