Filter By Subjects
African American fighter pilots Biography Brown, Jesse Leroy Fighter pilots United States Biography Hudner, Tom 1924-2017 Interracial friendship Korean War, 1950-1953 Campaigns Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir Large type books Rescues Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir History 20th century United States. Navy African Americans Biography United States. Navy Officers BiographyFilter By Subjects
African American fighter pilots Biography Brown, Jesse Leroy Fighter pilots United States Biography Hudner, Tom 1924-2017 Interracial friendship Korean War, 1950-1953 Campaigns Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir Large type books Rescues Korea (North) Changjin Reservoir History 20th century United States. Navy African Americans Biography United States. Navy Officers BiographyCarson, Scott
Summary: "Far upstate, in New York's ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that's what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America's founding, were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARCarson, Scott
Summary: A century after an early 20th-century New York community is intentionally flooded to redistribute water downstate, an inspector overseeing a dangerously neglected dam uncovers a prophecy that warns of additional sacrifices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler/Atria 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARQuammen, David
Summary: Acclaimed science writer and explorer David Quammen first came near the Ebola virus while he was traveling in the jungles of Gabon, accompanied by local men whose village had been devastated by a recent outbreak. Here he tells the story of Ebola -- its past, present, and its unknowable future
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 QUAMakos, Adam
Summary: "A young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that details the true story of two Navy pilots from divergent racial and economic backgrounds who forge a deep friendship during the Korean War as they face extraordinary circumstances." --Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 951.904 MAKWillis, John
Summary: "The Aquatic Ecosystems series explores how different bodies of water shape their environments and support the plants and animals that are reliant on them"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 577.63 WILMakos, Adam
Summary: "Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the Navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 MAKSummary: Competition for freshwater is heating up. Is war inevitable, or is a peaceful solution possible? This program spotlights three trouble spots that epitomize the intensifying crisis and efforts being made to manage it: the Okavango, where a commission formed by Angola, Namibia, and Botswana is trying to resolve the conflict that is endangering the river's unspoiled waters; the Rio Grande, where...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
All Tiny Creatures (Musical group)
Contents: Holography -- An iris -- Cargo maps -- Valves or hatches -- Glass bubbles -- Breathing set -- Aviation class -- Triangle frog -- Reservoirs -- Tine feature -- Plankton march.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hometapes 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARSides, Hampton
Summary: "A chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War."--Provided by publisher. On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.904 SIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 951.904 SIDDrury, Bob.
Summary: November, 1950. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is through the Toktong Pass, which will need to be held open at all costs. The mission fell to Captain William...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 951.904 DRURuss, Martin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fromm International 1999