Summary: Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enemy 2001

Summary: Francis Bernardone, son of a wealthy cloth merchant, after hearing the voice of Jesus speak to him, had a radical conversion from a worldly man of adventure to a life devoted to Christ lived in Gospel simplicity and service to the poor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRA

Cook, William R. (William Robert)

Summary: A series of twelve 30 min. lectures. Historian William Cook and literary scholar Ronald Herzman discuss the life, world, and legacy of Francis of Assisi.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 271.3 COO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 271.3 Francis

Sweeney, Jon M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCIS, OF ASSISSI, SAINT SWE

De Paola, Tomie

Summary: Francis, the Little Poor One, is so filled with the love of God that he bursts into song, and he is joined by birds of every color.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction dePaola 2009

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Demi.

Summary: Shares the story of the son of a rich merchant, who abandoned all his worldly goods in order to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Tales 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.092 DEM

Summary: 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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HIS

Summary: Eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt met on the bloody battlefields of the Crusades. Based on new research and scholarship about that fateful meeting, The Sultan and The Saint tells one of the great, lost stories from history as two men of faith fought against a century of war and distrust in a search for mutual respect and common ground.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

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Thompson, Augustine.

Summary: A new examination of the saint's life reveals his devotion to poverty might not have been his principal spiritual concern, while also exploring his upbringing, family relations, and journey to sainthood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCIS, OF ASSISI, SAINT THO

Spoto, Donald

Summary: In Reluctant saint, Donald Spoto shows us a Saint Francis who transcends the image of Francis familiar to even the least religious among us. Spoto's unprecedented access to unexplored archives and the saint's own unpublished letters help reveal how Francis pioneered an entirely new historical movement, one that eventually slipped from his grasp. Spoto highlights Francis's position within the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Compass 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.3 SPO

Wildsmith, Brian.

Summary: The story of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, who rejects his wealthy background to lead a life of poverty, good works, and kindness to animals, told as though spoken by the saint himself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 1996

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRA

Maffeo, Steven E.

Summary: In one brief hour of one specific day, in a tiny spot of ocean, the entire course of human events was nearly altered. Altered ... catastrophically. This book is dramatically inspired and heavily informed by true historical occurrences which took place in October 1962. In play were the USSR's "Operations Anadyr and Kama." It all later became known, in the West, as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Focsle, LLC 0000

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Summary: The story focuses on the early years of St. Francis of Assisi.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount [Home Video] 2003

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Sabatier, Paul

Summary: This volume presents a modern edition of Paul Sabatier's classic biography on St. Francis of Assisi. Quotes, comparisons, illustrations, and explanations show the relationship between Sabatier's foundational biography and other great works on Francis, from Dante to G.K. Chesterton. It will serve not only as an informational and engaging introduction to the life of St. Francis, but also as a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.3 SAB

St. Francis of Assisi Parish (Traverse City, Mich.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Olan Mills 1000

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377464 St. Francis

Becks-Malorny, Ulrike

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 BEC

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Describes how Vasya Kandinsky's creative life was profoundly shaped by a neurological condition called synesthesia which caused him to experience colors as sounds and sounds as colors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine Rosenstock

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KANDINSKY ROS

Kandinsky, Wassily

Summary: This volume presents abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). It reproduces scores of recently rediscovered paintings that had languished for decades in Soviet museums and in private collections. The author provides new details on Kandinsky's life and art, discussing his little-known experimental stage plays which strove for a synthesis of all the arts, and his friendships with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Guggenheim Museum 2009

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Cron, Ian Morgan

Summary: What happens when the pastor of a mega church loses his faith? Pastor Chase Falson has lost his faith in God, the Bible, evangelical Christianity, and his super-sized megachurch. When he falls apart, the church elders tell him to go away: as far away as possible. Join Chase on his life-changing journey to Italy where, with a curious group of Franciscan friars, he struggles to resolve his crisis...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.302 CRO

Robbins, David L.

Summary: A duel between two World War II snipers during the Battle of Stalingrad. The Russian is Vasily Zaitsev, a Siberian peasant who runs the Red Army's sniper school. He does such a good job, the Germans dispatch master sniper SS Colonel Heinz Thorvald.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999

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