Summary: American soldiers try to hold off Japan's invasion of the Philippines; after surrendering to Japan, an American army colonel organizes a Filipino guerrilla force; follows an elite group of soliders trained for anti-guerilla warfare in Vietnam; the crew of an American submarine head to Tokyo Bay to prepare for the Doolittle air raid.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREWhite, Randy Wayne.
Summary: "Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia obtains and sells a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend. When both Garcia and the who bought the letters disappear, Doc Ford investigates, convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful agency, cannot allow to be made public"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIBetancourt, Ingrid
Summary: Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogota, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.106 BETNorth, Oliver.
Summary: In 2032, conservative Christians have been driven underground by a repressive government that discredits a former war hero during an effort to rescue a kidnapped scientist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORGruber, Michael
Summary: Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group, while her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUKurzman, Dan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5487 KURWhite, Randy Wayne.
Summary: Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items--high-profile collectibles--but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIEggers, Dave
Summary: One man struggles to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows how.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's Books 2014
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGGRobinson, Kim Stanley
Summary: "From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction RobinsonWhite, Randy Wayne
Summary: "The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items-high-profile...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WHIKurzman, Dan.
Summary: The author relates how in September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious that his ally and friend, Benito Mussolini, had been toppled from power in Italy, sends German troops into Rome and outlines a mission to SS General Karl Wolff to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5487 KURWhite, Randy Wayne.
Summary: Winter in New York City: Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club. He foils an abduction attempt on a senator, but the companion in her car is snatched-- and buried alive, leading to a series of remakable twists and revelations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WHISummary: On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst), was kidnapped from her apartment by a terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The SLA, seeking to foment a violent uprising within America's working class, forced the Hearst family to donate millions of dollars in food to the poor. But two months after her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUESummary: Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches and vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and plastic surgery. Artfully connects these seemingly disparate elements and conducts a dazzling, yet harrowing, examination of the tragic domino effect that has reshaped the face of the country and created an entire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANTaseer, Shahbaz
Summary: "In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated Uzbek terrorist group. Shahbaz's father, the late Pakistani governor, had recently been assassinated. His crime: speaking in support of a Christian woman who had been accused of blasphemy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TASEER, SHAHBAZ TASReardon, Bryan
Summary: "Liam Brennan teeters on the edge. Early one morning, he snaps, kidnapping a young woman who works for Drew Brennan, Liam's older brother and the upstart candidate in a heated election. This sudden, vicious attack appears to be the beginning of an unthinkable spiral. But when it comes to the Brennan brothers, nothing is what it seems. To the rest of the world, Liam is the troubled problem child...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REASummary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015