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Summary: "Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from home for a decade. Here he explore his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the subculture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.40973 BRIBrinkley, Alan.
Summary: Analyzes the contrast between Kennedy's achievements and his legend, tracing the successes and failures of such events as the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis while exploring the ways in which he reshaped views of the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: A biography of the first president to be sworn into office as a result of his predecessor's resignation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, GERALD BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 959.7043 BRIGagne, Patric
Summary: "Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn't understand. She suspected it was because she didn't feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn't like the way that "nothing" felt. She did her best to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: "Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: An extraordinary and timeless biography that looks at the influence the natural world played on Theodore Roosevelt. Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres BrinkleyWarrick, Joby.
Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL WarBrierley, Saroo
Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRIBangley, Bernard
Contents: January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- June -- July -- August -- September -- October -- November -- December -- Patron saints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 BUTBrinkley, Dannion.
Contents: The first time I died -- The tunnel to eternity -- "He's dead" -- The crystal city -- The boxes of knowledge -- Coming back -- At home -- A saving grace -- A new lease on life -- My own kind -- Special powers -- Rebuilding -- Heart failure -- The second time I died -- To be continued.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: BeliegfSpirit BrinkleyBrinkley, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 975.3 BRIBrinkley, Douglas
Summary: Douglas Brinkley's Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision. Now Brinkley turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader--Theodore's distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt--chronicling his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, ROSA BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY BRIPringle, Peter.
Summary: Describes the life and career of Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist who created the world's first seed bank, and his political problems and persecution later in life that resulted in his imprisonment and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 PRIHargrove, Brantley
Summary: Documents the life and achievements of late engineer and storm chaser Tim Samaras, describing his development of innovative new tools and his life-risking efforts in pursuit of scientific information that has transformed the field of meteorology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAMARAS, TIM HARBrinkley-Rogers, Paul
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley‑Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri‑La that long‑ago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRINKLEY-ROGERS, PAUL BRIPatricof, Alan J.
Summary: "Extensive media and online coverage of the businesss arena, news of start-ups, merers, and deals are familiar headlines these days. But that wasn't always the case. The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today's very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past fifty years of the industry. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.092 PATJones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice)
Summary: "A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 JONBishop, Patrick (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: "One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits the death of Zionist leader Avraham Stern-- head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang-- at the hand of a British policeman during WW II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BISHenry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard)
Contents: Rescuing Jews in the south of France -- Daniel's choice -- Madeleine Dreyfus : righteous Jew -- Albert Camus' The plague -- The rescuers of Jews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catholic University of America Press 2007