Summary: Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEESummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAIHannah, Kristin
Summary: "'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Sweet, Matthew
Summary: "Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars--but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It's a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies--agents who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 SWENguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai
Summary: "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction NguyenMoore, Harold G.
Summary: To honor fallen comrades, a journalist and a soldier return to Vietnam battlefields more than 30 years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 MOO1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 959.704 MOO
Summary: In a bustling wasteland of stolen cars, mechanics and street hustlers, Alejandro, a tough and ambitious street orphan, and his older sister, Isamar, must rely on each other to survive. Living and working in the Iron Triangle, a sprawling junkyard in Queens, New York, the two find their dreams threatened by the hard truths of life, only to find hope and salvation in one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHOTrent, J. Dana
Summary: "An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a divinity degree from Duke University-and then realizes she must confront her past to truly find her way home. "Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It's also where the healing begins." Born to drug-dealing parents in rural Indiana, Dana Trent is a preschooler the first time she uses a razor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AUGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FIC AUGSummary: A selfish young filmmaker ventures into the streets of the fourth world to document crime, but instead forms a relationship with a street kid and decides instead of just documenting, he wants to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WhAdachi, Yumiko
Summary: Real Vietnamese Cooking gathers the collective culinary wisdom of three intrepid food explorers who spent years training with Vietnam's best chefs while scouring the countryside in search of tastes few foreigners experience. It introduces readers to local takes on classic dishes, as well as lesser known favorites--all delicious and accessible, made from easy-to-find ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59597 ADASummary: 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: Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPSummary: Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACRSkrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
Summary: "Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOSeahorn, Janet J.
Summary: The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Team Pursuits 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.8521 SEASummary: "In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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Summary: Explores the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and adult health problems, drawing on scientific insights and personal stories to outline beneficial health interventions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 BURSummary: Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002