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Long-distance runners United States Biography Prisoners of war Prisoners of war Japan Biography Prisoners of war United States Biography Prisoners' songs United States World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese Juvenile literature Zamperini, Louis 1917-2014Contents: Alan Lomax speaking to Charles Kuralt, 1991 interview -- from Southern journey: I'm going home ; Girl I left behind ; Titanic ; Sherburne -- from Prison songs: Early in the mornin' -- from The Caribbean collection: Roll, roll, roll and go ; Luce-O, Luce Mauvais ; Sambo Caesar ; War ; Religious Bhajan -- from The English, Scottish and Irish recordings: Tha mulad, tha mulad ; As I roved out ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK LOMCash, Johnny.
Summary: Full title: At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CASSummary: The documentary follows a unique rehabilitation effort in a Virginia jail that encourages inmates to write and record original music. In the jail's makeshift recording studio, four men collaborate to produce an album with Grammy-winner Todd 'Speech' Thomas of Arrested Development. As the creative process unfolds, these incarcerated artists must confront the traumas of their past, and music...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SIXContents: Listen to me (or I will kick your ass) / Chikondi Salanje -- Women today take care of business / Stefano Nyerenda -- Please, don't kill my child / Thomas Binamo -- A message (I will take you) / Ben Masekese -- Jealous neighbor / Elias Chimenya -- I see the whole world dying of AIDS / Officer Ines Kaunde -- Give me back my child / Henderson Damiano -- The floods / James Justin -- Taking my life...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ZOMContents: Prisoner's talking blues (Robert Pete Williams) (5:10) -- Stagolee (Hogman Maxey) (3:40) -- Electric chair blues (Guitar Welch) (5:08) -- Black night fallin' (Hogman Maxey) (4:27) -- Some got six months (Robert Pete Williams) (3:44) -- I'm gonna leave you Mama (Guitar Welch) (2:48) -- I'm lonesome blues (Robert Pete Williams) (4:00) -- Angola bound (a capella group) (5:50) -- Worried blues...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ANGContents: The murderer's home / Jimpson & group -- No more, my lord / Jimpson & axe gang -- Old Alabama / B. B. & group -- Black woman / B. B. & group -- Jumpin' Judy / Tangle Eye, Fuzzy Red, Hard Hair, & group -- Whoa Buck / C. B. -- Prettiest train / "22" -- Old dollar Mamie / "22" & group -- It makes a long time man feel bad / "22" & group -- Rosie / C. B. & axe gang -- Levee Camp holler / Bama --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK PRISmith, J. B.
Contents: Disc 1. No more good time in the world for me (13:24) -- Watching my timber (1:29) -- Drop 'em down together (5:18) -- I got too much time for the crime I done (9:46) -- They can't do that (toast) (1:18) -- I heard the reports of a pistol (7:45) -- Drinking that wine (1:29) -- Ever since I been a man full grown (23:12) -- Disc 2. Sure make a man feel bad (6:17) -- Tried by fire (4:29) -- Woman...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SMICash, Johnny.
Contents: Folsom Prison blues -- Busted -- Dark as the dungeon -- I still miss someone -- Cocaine blues -- 25 minutes to go -- Orange blossom special -- Long black veil -- Send a picture of mother -- Wall -- Dirty old egg-suckin' dog -- Flushed from the bathroom of your heart -- Joe Bean -- Jackson (with June Carter) -- Give my love to Rose (with June Carter) -- I got stripes -- Legend of John Henry's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CashFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXSummary: Thrilling adventure of imprisonment and escape(s) from a French Guiana prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Papillon 1999Hillenbrand, Laura
Summary: In this captivating new young adult edition, the story of a man's breathtaking odyssey and the courage, cunning, and fortitude he found to endure and overcome. This gripping narrative will introduce a new generation to one of history's most thrilling survival epics.--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ZAMPERINI, LOUIS HILSummary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARWeintraub, Robert
Summary: Describes the bond that developed between an RAF technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, a pair who met in an internment camp during World War II where they became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Morris, Heather
Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction MorrisYomtov, Nelson
Summary: "Story of men who tunneled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp. Learn about the planners, task leaders, and key players of the escape from Stalag Luft III"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 YOMBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILSummary: When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: Ricky takes revenge on the drug-pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend. Sentenced to a prison term, Ricky is confronted by a host of evil characters, including a sadistic warden, his assistant, and The Gang of Four, a group of powerful fighters who control fellow inmates through terror and threat of death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyo Shock 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Kershaw, Alex
Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 Kershaw 2008Hillenbrand, Laura
Summary: In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history s most thrilling survival epics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 910.54 HILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ZAMHillenbrand, Laura.
Summary: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAMPERINI, LOUIS HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZAMPERINI HILThomas, Angie
Summary: If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021