Best, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESKershaw, Alex.
Summary: From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared -- the entire time it took to liberate Europe -- no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD 940.54 KERGallego, Ruben
Summary: "Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLEGO, RUBEN GALWise, Beau
Summary: "From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat--becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WISTyner, Artika R.
Summary: "When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn't change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women's Army Corps-the Six Triple Eight-and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 TYNSmith, Granger
Summary: In this inspirational and deeply personal book, an award-winning, platinum-selling, American country music singer-songwriter shares the dark days following the death of his youngest son and how he found the strength and the faith to keep living after loss, showing that life is like a river, full of twists and turns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, GRANGER SMIKander, Jason
Summary: "Barack Obama has called Jason Kander the future of the Democratic Party. A former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan, Kander was the first millennial ever elected to statewide office. Today, he is the founder and president of Let America Vote, and a bold new voice in American politics. In OUTSIDE THE WIRE, Jason Kander writes candidly about his life, from joining the military following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hatchette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANDER, JASON KANKanfer, Stefan.
Summary: In an insightful portrait of an iconic artist, the author of The Eighth Sin interweaves Marlon Brando's tumultuous personal life with his remarkable acting career as he documents the actor's troubled childhood, stage and film work, self-destructive nature, often contradictory attitude toward his craft, and the tragedies that marked his final years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Large Print Home Library 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRANDO, MARLON KANBarger, Ralph.
Summary: An autobiography in which Ralph "Sonny" Barger discusses his experiences as a longtime member of the motorcycle gang Hell's Angels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2000
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Summary: The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island--which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERMANO, KATE GERAngers, Trent.
Summary: The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acadian House Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, HUGH ANGKanfer, Stefan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARX, GROUCHO KANKarger, Dave
Summary: "Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 KARPanzer, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 PANRadner, Gilda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RADNER, GILDA RADRinder, Mike
Summary: Mike Rinder's parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology's elite inner circle, the Sea Organization. Brought to founder L. Ron Hubbard's yacht and promised training in Hubbard's most advanced techniques, Mike was instead put to work swabbing the decks. Still, Rinder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RINDER, MIKE RINHunger, Christina
Summary: A true story and simple guide to teaching a dog to talk from a speech-language pathologist who has taught her dog to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words. When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy, Stella, it didn't take long for her to start drawing connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.59 HUNKamenetz, Rodger
Contents: Sparks -- Flames -- Roadblocks -- Heights -- Blessings -- Contact -- The angel of Tibet and the angel of the Jews -- Always remind -- Debating monks and angels -- Shabbat Shalom and Tashe Delek -- Jewish Buddhists, Buddhist Jews -- JUBUs in America -- Tibetan intellectuals, Tibetan orphans -- An interview with the oracle -- Secret doors -- Tantra and Kabbalah -- Survival strategies -- One last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 KAMPrager, Sarah
Summary: Rainbow Revolutionaries brings to life the vibrant histories of fifty pioneering LGBTQ+ people from around the world. Through Sarah Prager's (Queer, There, and Everywhere) short, engaging bios, and Sarah Papworth's bold, dynamic art, readers can delve into the lives of Wen of Han, a Chinese emperor who loved his boyfriend as much as his people, Martine Rothblatt, a trans woman who's helping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 PRADanler, Stephanie
Summary: "From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled totranscend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANLER, STEPHANIE DANAnker, Conrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.52 ANKKanter, Trudi.
Summary: A true story of a Jewish Austrian hat designer who rescued herself and the businessman she loved during the 1938 Nazi invasion, seeking safety amid the horrors of World War II Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5482 KANTER, TRUDI KANVuolo, Jinger
Summary: "Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio VuoloRange, Peter Ross
Summary: Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing, a year of slowly walking gravel paths while working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016