Strzok, Peter
Summary: The author draws on lessons from his long career in counterintelligence and his role as the lead FBI agent in the Mueller investigation to examine foreign interference in American elections and the worrisome influence that the Kremlin has on President Donald Trump's policy decisions, which present a security risk to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 STRSummary: With the rise of political parties came the dawn of political compromise: nominees who were selected not necessarily because they were the best or most obvious candidates for the presidency, but because they were less offensive to some voters than those who might have been the most apparent choices. Their primary qualification for the office often seemed not to be their positive qualities but...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Mahalia
Summary: As an artist signed at just 13, 'Love & Compromise' is the rich fruit of Mahalia's developmental journey thus far. On her debut LP Mahalia's playfully infectious spirit intertwines with her youthful charisma, idiosyncratic storytelling, and consciousness - attributes that have set her apart from her peers and seen her become one of the UK's most-loved rising stars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAHBordewich, Fergus M.
Summary: Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.64 BORZheng, Lily
Summary: "In the age of identity politics, the fear of selling out is rampant--but Zheng and Hansen say there's nothing wrong with it and show how to do it without betraying your deepest values and beliefs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil ZhengYaffa, Joshua
Summary: "From a leading journalist in Moscow and a correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 YAFPatterson, Robert
Contents: An officer's oath -- The finger on the nuclear trigger -- Hillary's "football" -- Fear and loathing -- National defense or social petri dish? -- CNN diplomacy -- The war on terrorism -- A time to move on -- Appendix : The dangers we still face, by Caspar Weinberger, former secretary of defense -- President Clinton foreign policy chronology, 1993-2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0335 PATMui Zyu
Contents: Rotten bun -- Ghost with a peach skin -- Hotel mini soap -- Mother's tongue -- Dusty -- Ho Boo doon (interlude) -- Demon 01 -- Dancing for drinks -- Talk to death -- Paw paw -- Eggless century -- Sore bear.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MUIGantos, Jack
Summary: "Ralph takes a swing through his family tree to find out why he's so rotten"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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Summary: "In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Bernie Bridges and his Rotten School friends win a trip to a local prep school to compete in the National School Make-A-Great-Invention Contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIMahoney, Jerry
Summary: While eleven-year-old Maddie McMatthew's stepbrother Holden has been a little more tolerable since their first adventure, at the Halloween party he breaks another fairy tale by saying Beauty would never have fallen for the ugly Beast--and once again the two children find themselves sucked into another story and faced with having to set things right if they want to get home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAHSanchez, Anita
Summary: Describes the process of decomposition, discussing the role of decomposers such as sharks, vultures, and earthworms, and includes experiments demonstrating how decomposition supports new life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 581.7 SANNorth, Oliver.
Summary: U.S. Marine Major Peter J. Newman discovers that a top miltary official is planning to betray his country by thwarting a mission to eliminate key Middle East terrorist leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadman & Holman 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORNance, Malcolm W
Summary: "When former FBI Director Robert Mueller III was assigned to the Special Counsel investigation looking into the possibility of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, many Americans felt relieved. But when the report was delivered in April 2019, it was clear that the case was far from closed--and pinning Trump down on conspiracy charges was going to be a lot more difficult than it had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 NANSummary: Jon Stewart is considered one of America's top social and comedic voices. In this program, veteran journalist Bill Moyers interviews Stewart, the long-standing anchor of the award-winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart, about why so many viewers get their news and analysis from his fake news show. Does humor have a role to play in ensuring an informed public? Also on the program, Josh Marshall,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Chang, Jeff
Summary: "In his most recent book, Who We Be, Jeff Chang looked at how art and culture effected massive social changes in American society. Since the book was published, the country has been gripped by waves of racial discord, most notably the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In these highly relevant, powerful essays, Chang examines some of the most contentious issues in the current discussion of race...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 CHAThygerson, Alton L.
Contents: Background information -- Action at an emergency -- The human body -- Finding out what's wrong -- CPR -- Automated external defibrillators -- Shock -- Bleeding -- Wounds -- Bandaging wounds -- Burns -- Head and spinal injuries -- Chest, abdominal, and pelvic injuries -- Bone, joint, and muscle injuries -- Extremity injuries -- Splinting extremities -- Sudden illnesses -- Poisoning -- Bites and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.0252 THYMcCartney, Paul.
Contents: Band on the run -- Jet -- Bluebird -- Mrs. Vandebilt -- Let me roll it -- Mamunia -- No words -- Helen wheels -- Picasso's last words (Drink to me) -- Nineteen hundred and eighty five.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1973
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MCCSummary: Explores the world of motocross and looks at the men who take chances with this dangerous sport -- from asphalt track contests and drag racing to cross-country and hill climbing competitions. Professional riders such as Mert Lawwill and Malcolm Smith are featured. Includes a special tribute to Steve McQueen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONSummary: At once banal and provocative, the works of Andy Warhol sardonically comment on the ubiquity of mass media in modern America. This program takes a look at the Pop Art movement and the life of Warhol through a penetrating investigation of his deadpan Ten Lizes. The painting exemplifies his fascination with-and his indifference to-celebrities as objects no less commodified than a simple can of soup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Boutland, Craig
Summary: "Describes attack vehicles being used in war on terrorism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOWilliams, Tad
Summary: "Takes place in the half-year after the end of To Green Angel Tower, and tells of the attempt by Isgrimnur and a force largely made up of Rimmersgard soldiers to destroy the remaining Norns as they flee back to their homeland and their mountain. It also answers some questions about what actually happened in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Green Angel Tower"--Goodreads.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2017