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62) Marmee: a novel
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In 1861, Margaret March, with her husband serving as an army chaplain, finds the comfort and security of her four daughters resting on her shoulders alone as she faces financial hardships, secrets, and tragedy, in this revealing retelling of Little Women from the perspective of the beloved matriarch known as Marmee.
"In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. With her husband serving...
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Frontline episode with 2 parts. On the ground in Benghazi, birthplace of Libya's uprising, now besieged by ISIS and warring militias. Journalist Feras Kilani goes inside the war-torn city. Also this hour, Safa Al-Ahmad makes a dangerous trip to report on the fighting in Yemen.
64) City of Jasmine
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When Hammoudi, a young surgeon based in Paris, returns to Syria to renew his passport, he only expects to stay there a few days. But the authorities refuse to let him leave and Hammoudi finds himself caught up in the fight against the regime. Meanwhile, budding actress Amal has also joined the protests against the government and her own father, by whom she feels betrayed. Realising that they will never again be safe in their homeland, Amal and her...
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With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends -- such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee -- to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed...
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2011
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Civil War rages. The formidable Confederate army cannot match the Union's mastery of technology as railroads, supply lines, and the telegram become new weapons in a modern war. The transcontinental railroad unites the nation and transforms the heartland. Farmers settle the continent as their cattle replace wild buffalo as king of the plains. The cowboy becomes a new American icon. Viewers will be immersed in each moment as it happens.
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"When Union soldier Caitlin McKae wakes up in Atlanta, the doctor believes she's been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. Hiding her identity, she accepts a job as governess for a rebel soldier's daughter. Both Union veteran and rebel soldier will test the limits of loyalty and discover the courage to survive"--
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1986
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1106 pages : maps (some color) ; 24 cm
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Volume three of a three volume narrative history of the battles, characters and situations during the last years of the Civil War. This final volume opens with the beginning of the two final, major confrontations of the war: Grant against Lee in Virginia, and Sherman pressing Johnston in north Georgia in 1864. The narrative describes the events and battles from Sherman's March to the Sea to Lincoln's assassination and the surrender of Lee at Appomattox....
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1986, c1963
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988 pages : maps (some color) ; 24 cm
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Volume two of a three volume narrative history of the battles, characters and situations during the middle portion of the war. The second volume is dominated by the almost continual confrontation of great armies. The starting point for this volume is the Battle of Fredericksburg, fought on December 13, 1862, between General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. For the fourth...
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The Loyal League volume 3
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An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes ... Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people--dreams that died the night he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Daniel is rescued, but he's a changed man. When he's offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of Black spies who helped free him, he seizes the...
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©2008
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Any Johhny Reb who tries to escape the Union prison outpost at Fort Bravo faces the unforgiving Arizona Territory desert stretching out before him ... and the even more unforgiving pursuit of Bravo's resolute Captain Roper. Yet there's a common foe that may unite the Civil War rivals: the fierce Mescalero horsemen waging guerilla war against Blue and Gray alike.
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"Seattle, Washington Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest or conducting a dusty patrol in Afghanistan. But all of that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear. Soon after, Larkin discovers an unexpected treasure--the diary of Emily Wilson, a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union in the...
74) Shenandoah
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2003
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Cherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others.
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The
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1961-1965.
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3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Volume 1: "The coming fury" describes the people and politics, social and economic forces which came together to drive the nation apart, from a political convention in Charleston in 1860 through the first, stunning impact of the Battle of Bull Run.
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