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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Continues the inner workings of Engine 62, a New York City firehouse, along with the personal and emotional battles of its members in a post-9/11 world. Mostly centers on Tommy Gavin, a veteran firefighter whose life is in turmoil as he copes with the stresses and fears of his job, which are manifested through conversations with his dead cousin Jimmy Keefe, a former firefighter, as well as the haunting memories of people he has watched perish on the...
942) Wonderful world
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful sister Khadi arrives from Senegal, and Ben's life begins to...
943) Rumsfeld's war
Pub. Date
2004
Description
With the United States Army deployed in a dozen hotspots around the world, on constant alert in Afghanistan, and taking casualties every day in Iraq, some current and former officers now say the army is on the verge of being "broken." The program digs into the aggressive attempts to assert civilian control and remake the military by the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his allies.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
FBI cryptographer Eloise Marshall is grieving the death of her brother, who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when she is assigned to investigate a seemingly innocent letter about dolls. Agent Phillip Clayton is ready to enlist and head overseas when asked to work one more FBI job. A case of coded defense coordinates related to dolls should be easy, but not so when the Japanese Consulate gets involved, hearts get entangled, and Phillip goes...
945) Monsters of man
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A Robotics company teams up with a corrupt CIA agent trying to position themselves to win a lucrative military contract. They illegally airdrop 4 prototype robots into the middle of the infamous Golden triangle between Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand to perform a live field test on unsuspecting drug lords that the world will never miss. One of the Robots is damaged in the AIR drop, the robot technical team loses control of it as it becomes self-aware,...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1975
Description
She can run faster than 60 mph, bend massive steel bars, jump from insane heights, and hear sounds you can only imagine. She's no ordinary schoolteacher. Jaime's story begins anew in these entertaining Season One episodes as she learns to deal with her new bionic abilities, becomes a top-secret agent for the Office of Scientific Investigations, and deals with her changed relationship with Steve.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The Americans, from executive producer Joe Weisberg, is the critically acclaimed series about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The series is centered on Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) Jennings, who have two children - 13-year-old Page (Holly Taylor) and 10-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents'...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
"The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States--they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938. In America, Freddy tried enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor, only to be rejected...
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