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A woman of World War II mystery 1 Chicago World's Fair mystery Chicago World's Fair mystery 1 Inside the cold war New World archaeological record Reconstruction, the second civil war Star Wars adventures in wild space 1 Star wars. Adventures in wild space 1 Sword art online II 1 Wor(l)ds of changeChurchill, Winston
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHUChurchill, Winston
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1951
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Summary: Covers the German drive toward the East and the United States becomes involved in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1950
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published in association with the Cooperation Pub. Co. [by] Houghton Mifflin 1949
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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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1953
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHUCard, Orson Scott
Summary: Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Card 2016Turtledove, Harry.
Summary: When the Duke of Bari suddenly dies, the neighboring nation of Algarve, long seething over its defeat a generation ago in the Six Years' Wars, sees its chance to bring Bari into the fold ... an action which the other countries surrounding Algarve cannot, by treaty, tolerate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURSummary: Superman is overwhelmed by a destructive force from space which is determined to destroy the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2002
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Summary: Every victim of human trafficking needs a hero. A fun-filled camping trip through Northern Michigan's Upper Peninsula abruptly turns into a suspenseful race for survival. Lynn meets and befriends a charismatic teenage boy who helps to abduct her plunging Jeremy Hodak, his younger twin brothers and their friends into the modern-day terrifying world of human trafficking personally. In a bold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeffery Allen Boyd 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BoydCard, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF CARPerry, Anne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: In the fifth and final entry in Perry's World War I series, the war is drawing to a close. British intelligence officer Matthew Reavley has received word that a high-ranking German defector is willing to identify the Peacemaker, the man who has been undermining Britain's war effort and is responsible for the death of Reavley's parents. As Matthew travels to Ypres, his brother, Joseph, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERSummary: A year has passed since SAO was cleared. Summoned by Seijirou Kikuoka of the Virtual Division at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and murders linked to the popular VR game, Gun Gale Online (GGO). After being shot in game by a player calling himself Death Gun, two prominent GGO players have mysteriously turned up dead in the real world. As Kazuto logs in GGO and starts investigating the mystery...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Aniplex of America, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOSummary: This episode of Reconstruction shows how the whole Southern world was turned upside down. And yet, despite these challenges and terrible racial violence in this period, so much was accomplished. Reconstruction brought public schools to the South for the first time. Black Southerners were elected to local and national offices. And the nation committed itself to equality under the law for all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: This episode of Reconstruction shows how, in just a few years, a series of stunning events - the Emancipation Proclamation, the Fourteenth Amendment granting ex-slaves citizenship in 1868, the enfranchisement of blacks the following year - reversed centuries-old patterns of race relations in America. People who for generations had been the property of others were now free to run their own lives.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Gray, Shelley Shepard.
Summary: "One woman's search for the truth of her sister's disappearance leads her to deceit and danger in 1893 Chicago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAArlen, Tessa
Summary: "The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, Poppy Redfern's family house and farmland has been requisitioned by the War Office as a new airfield for the American Air Force. As the village's Air Raid Warden, Poppy spends her nights patrolling the village as she tries to ease her neighbors' fears about the "Friendly Invasion"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ARLSummary: In the midst of the trauma of the Vietnam War, a U.S. diplomatic strategy evolves that begins the unraveling of the Soviet Empire. This program on the Cold War of the 1970s and 80s, hosted by David Frost and featuring historian Michael Beschloss, focuses on such key events and tactics as detente, the manipulations that sparked Middle East tensions between Soviet-supported Egypt and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Mason, Ronald J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Academic Press 1981
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.01 MASScott, Cavan
Summary: Milo and Lina Graf are the children of explorers Auric and Rhyssa, who map the region of Wild Space. But when their parents are kidnapped by Captain Korda, the siblings escape on their parents' starship, the Whisper Bird.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SCOSummary: 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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Summary: 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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Scott, Cavan
Summary: "When their parents are kidnapped by the Empire while exploring the far reaches of Wild Space, Milo and Lina Graf set out to rescue them. With their monkey-lizard, Morq, and their family droid, CR-8R, Milo and Lina fly their parents' starship, the Whisper Bird, to the remote planet of Thune to ask an old friend for help. But the evil Captain Korda has set a trap for them! Will Milo and Lina be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2017