Churchill, Winston
Summary: Covers the German drive toward the East and the United States becomes involved in World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1950
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHUChurchill, Winston
Summary: Covers the problems confronted by Churchill as he becomes Prime Minister, the Battle of France, the story of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, and the rebuilding of England's Army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published in association with the Cooperation Pub. Co. [by] Houghton Mifflin 1949
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Summary: Covers the beginning of the summer of 1943 to the evening of June 5, 1943 with the great armada waiting for the historic landing on June 6.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1951
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Summary: Studies the events from 1919-1939, stressing the allied errors that led to World War II and analyzes the first months of the war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985
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Summary: An account of the year 1942 that led to the invasion of Sicily, through the ebb and flow of warfare in Africa, and the discouragingly slow job of reconquest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1950
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Summary: Triumph and Tragedy recounts the dramatic months as the War drew to a close - the Normandy landings, the liberation of Western Europe, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the surrender of Germany and Japan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1953
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHUCard, Orson Scott
Summary: A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Card 2019Summary: The continuing adventures of master chef-hopeful Yukihira Soma and his fellow remaining second-year students at Tohtsuki Academy as they battle each other on their quest of winning the gold medal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Every victim of human trafficking needs a hero. In Book 2 of the action/adventure mystery thriller, Wolf's Head Bay-The Race for Home, the frightened yet determined group of kids led by Jeremy, make a harrowing escape...taking with them evidence exposing both the Colonel and the global criminal activity. Alone in the remote northern Michigan wilderness, unable to communicate with the outside...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jeffery Allen Boyd 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BoydSummary: Kirito is now certain the Death Gun is also a survivor of SAO. And to make things worse, he is most likely an ex-member of the murder guild, Laughing Coffin. As the final tournament of Bullet of Bullets begins, Kirito and Sinon agree to join forces until they identify which suffers from a traumatic memory from the past. But as Sinon sees Kirito trying to overcome them, she too tries to be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Aniplex of America, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOSummary: Thomas More's Utopia, one of the most significant texts of English humanism, has become the ideal for a society based on fundamental human principles of fairness and justice. This program follows the progress of More's intellectual development, from his early friendship with the influential humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, to his rise to power as a member of Parliament and later Chancellor of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Altbacker, E. J. (Ernie J.)
Summary: Everywhere Gray and Barkley swim, fish are whispering of a growing threat, of a shark named Finnivus who will eat anything or anyone, and won't stop until he has seized control of the entire ocean. Finnivus has an armada of vicious battle sharks to help him expand his empire, and Gray realizes that it's up to him to save the Big Blue. But first he must train with Takiza, the wise and mysterious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALTAaron, Jason
Summary: "With the Imperials closing in on them, Han and Leia are confronted by an unexpected foe, and Luke's lightsaber is stolen while he searches for answers about a Jedi Temple. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AARWendig, Chuck
Summary: "While escaping from Kylo Ren's clutches on Jakku, Rey, Finn, and BB-8 steal the Millennium Falcon, and become allies with Han Solo and Chewbacca in order to find Luke Skywalker."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STAZahn, Timothy
Summary: Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader team up against a threat to the Empire in this thrilling novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. "I have sensed a disturbance in the Force." Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root--its existence little more than a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHMaberry, Jonathan
Summary: Big Dog and V-8 are in the crosshairs of the world's most dangerous special operative: Joe Ledger. And the members of V-8 are tasked to hunt down and obtain plans for a stolen vampire gene screener.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2015
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Wendig, Chuck
Summary: In the aftermath of the destruction of the second Death Star and the defeat of the Emperor and Darth Vader, Han Solo and Chewbacca set out to liberate the Wookiee's homeworld of Kashyyyk. Meanwhile, Norra Wexley and her band of Imperial hunters pursue the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy, bringing them to justice. Wexley abandons her official mission when she receives news that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Wendig 2016Summary: With a novelist's attention to psychological detail, a diarist's love of personal history, and a moralist's penchant for spinning parables, the Roman writer Plutarch created an altogether new kind of biographical history with his Parallel Lives, a series of paired portraits of major figures from classical Greece and Rome. In this program, Plutarch himself is held up for scrutiny, and he gives...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Scieszka, Jon.
Summary: As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SCISummary: Few literary works have inspired as diverse and impassioned opinions as Machiavelli's The Prince. While some have denounced it as epitomizing the immorality and cynicism of despotic political rulers, others have considered it a paragon of pragmatism and lucidity in political affairs-including Napoleon Bonaparte, who deemed The Prince the only book that deserved to be read. In this program, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program chronicles the life and work of John Locke, the 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist considered by many to be the first notable thinker of the Enlightenment. Without a doubt, Locke's legacy is vast: his articulation of empiricism laid the intellectual groundwork for an explosion of scientific activity that continues to this day, and his political philosophy is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Altbacker, E. J. (Ernie J.)
Summary: Everywhere Gray and Barkley swim, fish are whispering of a growing threat, of a shark named Finnivus who will eat anything or anyone, and won't stop until he has seized control of the entire ocean. Finnivus has an armada of vicious battle sharks to help him expand his empire, and Gray realizes that it's up to him to save the Big Blue. But first he must train with Takiza, the wise and mysterious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing/Listening Library 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ALTGriffiths, Andy
Summary: In the deepest, darkest corner of the solar system lies an enemy more terrifying than the people of Earth could imagine. Vicious warriors who will let nothing stand in the way of their crusade for galactic domination. They're cunning. They're ruthless. They're zombie butts from Uranus! Earth has only one hope for salvation. Zack, a twelve-year-old who wants nothing more than to wash his hands...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRIZahn, Timothy.
Summary: The Republic is torn apart by dissension, Princess Leia tries to bring an alien race into the Republic, and Han and Luke search for Admiral Thrawn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992