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2009.
Language
English
Description
In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Susan Murphy gets turned into a giant monster on her wedding day when a meteorite from outer space hits her. She is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley group of Monsters are called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
Pub. Date
[2010], c1944
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. planes bomb Yugoslav and Hungarian cities and land in the Ukraine, where Ambassador Harriman and General Ira C. Eaker greet the crews and the Soviets stage a show for the U.S. fliers; General Perminov. 2. The island of Elba is taken by French troops; General Tassigny. 3. The mechanism of the German flying bomb is diagramed. 4. U.S. troops enter Cherbourg and take prisoners; rockets...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Liberators bomb the Solomon Islands; Navy battalions build an airstrip in the Gilbert Islands. 2. Locomotives for use in India are constructed in a Canadian factory. 3. The hospital ship Acadia docks. 4. Army-Navy football game in Australia. 5. General Eisenhower and General Clark survey the Italian front; 5th Army troops enter the town of Lagone. 6. Allied planes bomb Occupied France....
Pub. Date
[2010], c1944
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Manus Island is bombed from sea and air; soldiers fight in the jungle. 2. Wounded soldiers in Burma are treated; supplies are dropped to Fijian troops. 3. Princess Juliana visits Curacao Island in the Netherlands Antilles. 4. Ground and air crews of planes that bomb German-held territory.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Armed with the coolest hi-tech gadgets and weapons, the ultimate elite fighting force known as G.I. Joe travels the world in a high-stakes pursuit of Cobra, an evil international organization threatening to use a technology so powerful that it could bring the world to its knees.
Pub. Date
[2010], c1944
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. B-25 planes bomb bridges and railways near Hsipaw, Burma. 2. Cotton is picked by machine in Mississippi. 3. Dr. Joseph Erlanger, Dr. H. S. Gasser, and others receive Nobel Peace Prizes in New York City. 4. Carrier-based planes bomb Leyte Island; Admiral A. W. Radford. 5. French and 3rd Army troops enter Strasbourg and advance in the Metz area; the 9th Army advances through German villages....
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Bombers strike Japanese bases in the Aleutians; the "Flying Tigers" bomb Hong Kong. 2. Coast Guardsmen man a Danish windjammer. 3. Citizens donate blood. 4. Canadian women manufacture small arms. 5. Ships constructed in Brazil; laying an anti-submarine net. 6. British planes bomb a German factory in the Netherlands.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish.
Pub. Date
[2010], c1942
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. bombers take off and land at an Australian air base. 2. Mrs. Roosevelt attends a ceremony honoring nurses who served in the Pacific; women operating a lumber mill, testing tanks, and making guns. 3. Iron ore is dug, loaded, and delivered to mills. 4. The National Professional tennis championship. 5. A test flight of a Navy flying boat. 6. Canadian submarine chasers drop charges....
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Australian troops capture Madang, New Guinea. 2. A navy dirigible patrols for German submarines. 3. The Shah of Iran and his family. 4. A cannon is fired from a B-25 bomber; bombs are dropped. 5. Animals are rescued from an irrigation viaduct. 6. Fighters of the 8th Air Force down German planes. 7. Roosevelt inspects the 7th Army in Sicily.
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. troops land on one of the Aleutian Islands; airplanes take off from an island. 2. The Dionne quintuplets are present as five vessels are launched. 3. Tanks of the British 8th Army roll in Tunisia; General Montgomery and General Eisenhower meet; Allied artillery blasts Nazi positions.
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A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list of Air Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used.
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