Haltiner, Robert E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: R.E. Haltiner] 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 977.481 HAL1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.481 Halti
Oleszewski, Wes.
Summary: A follow up to the wildy successful WWII and the Great Lakes. This book involves a more personal and up close look at obscure topics and people relating to the Great Lakes and the war effort.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 OLESummary: In WNMU-TV's newest documentary, people living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recall World War II, sharing images and stories from the battlefields of Asia and Europe, and the hometowns we know and love. ... WNMU-TV travelled across the U.P., interviewing veterans, historians, and others who lived through the war. They talked about the military life, the battles on land and sea, the heroes,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public 13 TV/Northern Michigan University 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: 940.53 UPRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV U.P.Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. DVD U.P.Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 BAICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 BAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.531 BAIEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: During World War II, while most of the Detroit police department is fighting overseas, the "Four Horsemen" -- Lieutenant Max Zagreb, Sergeant Starvo Canal, and Detectives McReary and Burke -- struggle to keep the city safe from draft-dodging troublemakers, gangsters, racial tension and enemy saboteurs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyrus Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc., [2015]. 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2015VanderLugt, Dana
Summary: Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October 1944.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC VANVanderLugt, Dana
Summary: Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October 1944.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VANHarms, Richard H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Rapids Historical Society 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.456 HARClive, Alan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1979
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.404 CLICall number: MI 977.404 CLI
Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISWatkins, Steve
Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOBreach, Jen
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BREKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KEEWarren, Andrea
Summary: "A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MINSheinkin, Steve
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 623.4 SHENielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORLeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023