Summary: Thirteen high school students who have elected to spend the 1960-61 academic year on board the American schoolship Albatross learn about sailing and unity from their captain. When they encounter a white squall, a sudden, violent, wind-and-lightning storm, it turns into a test of courage and their will to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1996
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WHISummary: The story of a youth choir director who needs to write a big song for a Christmas Eve show. She is distracted from her task when a boy with a golden voice joins her choir, which comes as a surprise to his widowed father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ChSummary: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MER NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2016Colt, Paul
Summary: An anonymous New York investor sets in motion a hostile railroad takeover financed by more than a million dollars in counterfeit bearer bonds issued by a rival railroad. The work is carried out by a ruthless, ultra-secret crime syndicate using an enigmatic beauty hired to beguile unsuspecting bankers while passing the bogus paper. The Texas & Pacific Railroad turns to Pinkerton to stop the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLColt, Peter
Summary: "1985, Boston. In Vietnam, Andy Roark witnessed death and horrifying destruction. But for the soldiers who made it back alive, there are other casualties of war--the loss of tenderness, trust, and connection. Still feeling adrift and unsettled, Andy has struck up a welcome friendship with Nguyen, a Vietnamese restaurant owner. Sipping beer and trading memories after the restaurant shutters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Colt 2020Colt, Peter
Summary: "Boston, 1982. Private investigator Andy Roark has spent the past decade trying to rediscover his place in the world. In Vietnam, there was order and purpose. Everything--no matter how brutal--happened for a reason. Back home, after brief stints in college and with the police force, Roark has settled for a steady, easy routine of divorce and insurance fraud cases. Roark's childhood friend,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019