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Plot-your-own stories Secret service Service industries workers Labor unions United States Social movements United States Spies Spies History 20th century Strategy United States United States. Department of Defense Officials and employees Biography War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Personal narratives, AmericanLong, Michael G.
Summary: "Kids have always been on the front lines of the fights for justice. From marches protesting child labor to the student strike that helped build the case for Brown v. Board of Education to modern-day March for Our Lives and the Climate Strike, 'Kids on the March' tells the empowering story of children and teens throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first century rallying to fight for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.083 LONGates, Robert Michael
Summary: The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GATES, ROBERT MICHAEL GATBurgan, Michael.
Summary: "Explores various perspectives on espionage in World War I. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 BURVeseth, Michael.
Contents: A tale of two glasses -- Old bottles, new wine -- The Davino code -- Missionaries, migrants and market reforms -- The masters of wine -- Curse of the blue nun -- America's hangover (and the future of wine) -- Martians versus Wagnerians -- They always buy the ten cent wine -- Everyone's a critic -- The mcwine conspiracy -- The future of wine in three bottles -- Mondovino and the revenge of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 VESDillon, Michael
Summary: "Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DILLON, MICHAEL DILIgnatieff, Michael
Summary: "When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 IGNStephenson, Michael
Summary: Considers how soldiers through the ages have met their deaths in times of war, covering such subjects as weapons and battlefield strategies while offering insight into cultural differences and the nature of military combat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 STEVickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Kamen, Michael.
Contents: The town (In the theatre) (3:30) -- The sultan / Michael Kamen, Eric Idle (4:29) -- The war begins (5:56) -- Wednesday (2:37) -- The balloon (7:35) -- On the moon (7:33) -- Vulcan and Venus (7:58) -- In the belly of the whale (The gang together again) (3:39) -- The final battle (4:26) -- The Baron dies and lives again (3:16) -- Victory (2:55).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ADVDirda, Michael.
Summary: Presents a critical analysis of the works of the British author, including his mysteries about Sherlock Holmes and his lesser-known short stories and novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 DIRSchulman, Michael
Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, chronicling the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 SCHHayden, Michael V. (Michael Vincent)
Summary: "In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order is teetering on the brink. North Korea is on the verge of having a nuclear weapon that could reach the United States; Russians have mastered a new form of information warfare that undercuts democracy; and the role of China in the global community remains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HAYBurleigh, Michael
Summary: Describes how the collapse of power in the Philippines, the Congo, and Iran, among other places, contributed to Cold War tensions and explains how this cemented the United States' role as the world's great enforcer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 BURBurgan, Michael.
Summary: "Explores various perspectives on espionage in the Civil War. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Summary: "Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world's most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. [This book] goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for 'nonviolent resistance' to all forms of oppression--including the economic injustice that 'takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 HONWillrich, Michael.
Summary: Chronicles how America's progressive era war on smallpox sparked one of the twentieth century's leading civil liberties battles, describing the views and tactics of anti-vaccine advocates who feared an increasingly large government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.521 WILCicchini, Michael D.
Summary: "A criminal defense attorney goes beyond the popular Netflix documentary to detail the legal nightmare that led to the conviction of Steven Avery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345 CICDahl, Michael
Summary: Six-year-old Brandon hates to go up the stairs to bed because there is always a man sitting there, a man only he can see, but tonight he closes his eyes and makes the climb with his mother watching, and then he hears his mother scream--and that is only one of the stories in this collection about all-too-real fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Contents: Got To Be There (Single Version) (3:24) -- Rockin' Robin (Album Version) (2:33) -- Ain't No Sunshine (Album Version) (4:12) -- Maria (You Were The Only One) (Single Version) (3:42) -- I Wanna Be Where You Are (Album Version) (3:01) -- Girl Don't Take Your Love From Me (Album Version) (3:47) -- Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (Album Version) (2:52) -- Ben (Single Version) (2:45) -- People Make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal/Island Def Jam 1995
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Summary: From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines--from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli peace--the United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East. For well over two centuries, American statesmen, merchants, and missionaries, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W.Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 OREGates, Robert Michael
Summary: "Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity, seemingly unwilling to accept the mantle of leadership or unable to govern itself effectively. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.929 GATBeschloss, Michael R.
Summary: Presidential historian Michael Beschloss uses original letters, diaries, declassified documents, and interviews to bring us into the room and into the minds of a procession of Chief Executives who took the nation into major conflicts, mobilized Americans for victory, and seized greater power for themselves. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, we see these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.00973 BOSFullilove, Michael
Summary: Documents the lesser-known role of the President and five influential diplomats in overturning American isolationist beliefs and pulling the country into World War II, citing the reports that led to America's support of Great Britain and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D FULWelland, Michael
Summary: From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2009