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Author
Series
Grandma's wedding quilts volume 2
Publisher
[Robyn Echols]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Running from hostile Indians attacking Salina, Kansas in 1862, feisty Kizzie Atwell, Grandma Mary's oldest grandchild, runs into freighter Leander Jones traveling the Smoky Hill Trail. He is as interested in her as his stallion is in her mare. The two join forces to prevent the Fort Riley Army captain from requisitioning their beloved horses for the cavalry. Avoiding bushwhackers and fighting off a thieving bullwhacker binds their bargain. In 1865,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Expanded edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon and bombing in Beirut grows closer, her neighbors create a comfortable world indoors for Zeina and her brother. This expanded edition features a new, illustrated afterword"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Through scratchboard art and quotes from the subject's letters, this picture book biography follows the life of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who served in the Union army disguised as a man. Back matter materials include an author's note, two glossaries, recommended reading, a timeline of events, and additional historical information"--
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (308 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Unknown to humans, an invisible battle is waged between supernatural beings known as youmu, and mystical fighters known as Spirit World Warriors. Half-youmu, half-human Akihito Kanbara belongs to both worlds and yet neither, and goes through the motions of a normal daily life by attending high school. But when Akihito encounters a mysterious girl from a cursed clan, the bespectacled beauty will change his life forever.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In one of the most powerful films ever made about World War II, director Samuel Fuller tells the semi-autobiographical story of a squad of sharpshooters trying not to die in THE BIG RED ONE. World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Academy Award winner Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from...
6) Father
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A man well-settled into the autumn of his life, Joe Mueller is lovingly supported by his daughter Anne and her husband Bobby, a close-knit family ill-prepared for the dark secrets that are about to be uncovered. Tracked down by Holocaust survivor Iya Zetnick (AFI Award winner Julia Blake, Travelling North) Joe is soon exposed as a concentration camp functionary responsible for murdering her family back in Lithuania. Branded a war criminal and subject...
7) Broken Keys
Author
Language
Arabic
Description
A pianist living in a war-torn town where music has been banned, has his piano is broken and embarks on a dangerous mission to repair it.
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Lee Marvin reprises his role from the Oscar-winning 1967 World War II film, again taking a team of misfits and criminals on a deadly operation behind enemy lines--The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission. United States Major Reisman's team understands they are expendable--that, most likely, they will not survive. But they opt for a chance, no matter how dangerous, for parole from prison and a return to normal life. All they have to do...
10) 84 Charlie MoPic
Author
Language
English
Description
The title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman. The story follows a unit of American G.I.s in Vietnam, all with different backgrounds and motives for being there, through the lens of his camera.
12) Storming Juno
Author
Language
English
Description
On D-Day, 150,000 Allied soldiers cross the English Channel to launch the largest sea-born invasion in history. By end of day it will be the most successful landing of them all.
13) Dieppe Uncovered
Author
Language
English
Description
Dieppe Uncovered brings to life the events of August 19, 1942 by re-enacting key moments leading up to and during the Allies' attack on the small French port of Dieppe. At the heart of Dieppe Uncovered is a revelation that has never been written in history books. Surprisingly, centered around one soldier who went on to become a world famous writer.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Larry Berman in his book-insightful, overdue, an authentic 'Shock and Awe' story-deftly humanizes the contradictions in An's life" - -Bernard Kalb
"Berman has done an excellent job… There's plenty here for both supporters and critics of the Vietnam War to ponder." - Dan Southerland, former correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor in Saigon
"Berman has unraveled the mystery of his strange double life in an engrossing narrative." - Stanley...
15) Fateless
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (140 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Hungarian
Description
Fourteen-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary, as he is sent to a concentration camp, where he is forced to become a man, and learns to find happiness in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
16) The Zookeeper
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a devastating civil war in an Eastern European country, a disillusioned ex-Communist is left behind to take care of the animals in the capital's zoological gardens until a U.N. rescue force arrives.
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (158 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young American farm boy and a Japanese student are swept away from their lives by war and end up playing a deadly game of cat and mouse on a Pacific Island.
It is a world war between with the lives and cultures of empires at stake, the largest and most vicious war to sweep across the globe. In spite of the sweep of the war around the world, in August 1942 many were focused on a rugged and brutal South Pacific island called Guadalcanal. Here,...
Author
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you were convinced you were going to die? Swept up in the frenzy of patriotism, Albert volunteers to serve his king and country. He is shipped off to the trenches of France along with almost every able-bodied man that he knows, leaving his estranged wife and his child behind. Convinced he will die a horrible death, he seeks comfort in the arms of Marie, a local French woman who gives him hope his last days might become bearable....
Author
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Gene Sinclair never imagined the war would be like this.The training is over, and Gene begins the Pacific island hopping that will mature and harden him, and all the other GIs. Attached to the 24th Infantry Division, Gene's anti-aircraft unit stays close to the front lines of the war. He soon meets all that World War II can throw at him: accidents, injury, typhoons, supply shortages, hallucination-filled malaria, and the death of his friends....
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