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Summary: "The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.7340 GLAAbrams, Stacey
Summary: "Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity-who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways.Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ABREnrich, David
Summary: "A searing exposé by an award-winning journalist of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump's business empire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 ENRCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 ENRGoucher, Kara
Summary: "Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age, and though she was confronted with serious challenges including the death of her father and struggles with disordered eating, her prospects were bright. She won high school cross country championships in Minnesota, NCAA track and field championships at the University of Colorado, and when she graduated from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOUCHER, KARA GOUToobin, Jeffrey
Summary: "Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his national security advisor pled guilty to others. Several Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by the president's actions that they alerted senior government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 TOOFitzgerald, Randall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nu FitzgeraldLochery, Neill
Summary: "When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain "neutral" countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Summary: In the last temptation of Rick Pitino , Michael Sokolove lifts the rug on the Louisville scandal and places it in the context of the much wider problem, the farce of amateurism in bigtime college sports. In a world in which even assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-figure salaries, as long as they keep the "elite" athletes coming in, shoe deals can reach into the nine figures, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PITINO, RICK SOKCoyne, Amanda.
Summary: The story of America's last frontier and oil province from the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, to its crossroads today after Governor Sarah Palin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 COYFinkel, Michael.
Summary: Follows the experiences of a journalist who, after fabricating part of a story and losing his job, was mistaken for a murderer and fled to Cancun, where he lived under an assumed identity and forged a complex relationship with the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 FINFowler, Susan J.
Summary: "The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after. In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB FOWLER FOWIsikoff, Michael
Summary: Explains how Vladimir Putin and Russia hacked an American election as part of a covert operation to subvert the United States' democracy and help Donald Trump win the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 ISIUrbina, Ian
Summary: "There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and with no clear international authority, the oceans have become the setting for rampant criminality--from human trafficking and slavery to environmental crimes and piracy. Now, in The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina--prize-winning reporter for The New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.2 URBWhitlock, Craig
Summary: "All the admirals in the US Navy knew Leonard Glenn Francis--either personally or by his legendary reputation. He was the larger-than-life defense contractor who greeted them on the pier whenever they visited ports in Asia, ready to show them a good time after weeks at sea while his company resupplied their ships and submarines. He was famed throughout the fleet for the gluttonous parties he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: The Harvard-educated defense attorney and "Newsweek" political columnist presents an in-depth account of the Ukraine scandal that exposes years of clandestine activities, explaining why Trump's corrupt international deals have been particularly consequential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 ABRClark, Simon
Summary: "In this compelling story of greed, theft, and the dark underbelly of globalization and impact investing, two Wall Street Journal financial reporters investigate the shocking collapse of Abraaj-the largest private-equity failure in history-and the face behind its glimmering rise and catastrophic fall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 CLAFowler, Susan J.
Summary: "The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOWLER, SUSAN FOWJarrett, Gregg
Summary: The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama’s Justice Department worked improperly to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. When this suspected effort failed, those same people appear to have pursued a contrived investigation of President Trump in an attempt to undo the election results and remove him as president. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 JARRadomski, Kirk.
Summary: Radomski, a former New York Mets employee, pleaded guilty to distributing anabolic steroids to dozens of major league players between 1995 and 2005. Since cooperating with baseball's steroids investigation, Radomski breaks his silence on life in the Major Leagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 RADStewart, James B
Summary: There are questions that the Mueller report couldn't -- or wouldn't -- answer. What instigated the Russia investigation? Did President Trump's meddling incriminate him? There's no mystery to what Trump thinks. He claims that the Deep State, a cabal of career bureaucrats, is concerned only with protecting its own power and undermining the democratic process. Conversely, James Comey has defended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 STECrawford, Lacy
Summary: "When the elite St. Paul's School recently came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered at St. Paul's decades before, when she was fifteen. Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note. Her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: "In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 KINMikovits, Judy
Summary: A behind the scenes look at the issues and egos which will determine the future health of humanity. Like many women who have trespassed into the world of men, Mikovits uncovered decades-old secrets that many would prefer to stay buried. From her doctoral thesis, which changed the treatment of HIV-AIDS, to her discovery of a new family of human retroviruses, Mikovits has seen the best and worst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 MIKPapenfuss, Mary.
Summary: The first inside account of the international soccer scandal that rocked the world and the American at its center—the incredible story of how a stay-at-home New York soccer dad illegally made millions off the world’s most powerful and corrupt sports organization and became an unlikely FBI whistleblower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016