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Authors, English 20th century Biography Bible stories, English Bissell, Richard M. (Richard Mervin) 1909-1994 Castro, Fidel 1926-2016 Johnson, Clarence L 1910-1990 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich 1894-1971 Land, Edwin H 1909-1991 Powers, Francis Gary 1929-1977 U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft)Hastings, Reed
Summary: "Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched by hundreds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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Contents: Dilemmas and decisions -- Japan: defying gravity -- The British in Burma -- Titans at sea -- America's return to the Philippines -- "Flowers of death" : Leyte Gulf -- Ashore: battle for the mountains -- China: dragon by the tail -- MacArthur on Luzon -- Bloody miniature: Iwo Jima -- Blockade: war underwater -- Burning a nation: Lemay -- The road past Mandalay -- Australians: "Bludging" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 HASHastings, Michael
Summary: The contributing editor of "Rolling Stone" whose uncensored article "The Runaway General" led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal provides a behind-the-scenes account of the United States' involvement in Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 HASHastings, Max
Summary: Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta--an action-packed tale of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph against all odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HASHastings, Max
Summary: "Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.704 HASHastings, Max.
Summary: Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5341 HASHastings, Patrick
Summary: "This is a reader's guide, episode by episode, to James Joyce's notoriously difficult masterpiece Ulysses. It also offers enough original analysis and overviews of scholarly criticism to interest even seasoned Joyceans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 HASHastings, Selina.
Summary: He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham's own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham's personal correspondence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAUGHAM, W. SIMERSET HASHastings, Max
Summary: "In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century--the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis--America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 HASCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Tells the story of the infamous British military operation, the Dambusters raid. This aerial bombing attack, called Operation Chastise, was responsible for the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in northwest Germany by Britain's Royal air Force 617 Squadron, an epic wartime maneveuver that has become military legend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HASHastings, Max.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 997.11 HASHastings, Max.
Summary: A monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II, and its deeply personal consequences. Hastings simultaneously traces the major developments and puts them into real human context. He also explores some of the darker and less explored regions of the war's penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HASHastings, Max.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9042 HASHastings, Selina
Summary: "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEDFORD, SYBILLE HASHastings, Ximena
Summary: "Led by Dr. Ick and her sidekick, Sam the dog, kids will learn many fascinating facts about ooey, gooey, disgusting SLIME--with some of the slimiest creatures, slimy things in the human body, and more! Did you know that the hagfish can produce a bucketful of slime in just minutes? And do you know what ear wax is actually made of? This book includes a fun, kid-friendly recipe for making their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HASHastings, Chris
Summary: From a boy determined to teach the school bully a lesson to a novelty toy that brings good luck with monstrous consequences, this terrifying trio of tales will have FNAF fans on the edge of their seats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FIVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC FIVHastings, Max.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 HASHastings, Selina.
Summary: The best-loved stories of the Old and New Testaments are retold and brought to life with vivid and finely detailed illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Religion HastingsReel, Monte
Summary: In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.127 REERees, Rosemary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 931 REESeed, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.822 SEELeed, Percy
Summary: "David Beckham starred for great soccer teams in England, Spain, and the United States. Off the field, he's one of the biggest superstars in sports. Read about the life of a soccer celebrity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BECHastings, Chester
Summary: Offers ninety seasonal recipes that combine cheese with the ripest fruits and vegetables, including a springtime raw baby artichoke salad with Pecorino Toscano and savory pumpkin tarts with Bûcheron for autumn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.673 HASHastings, Max.
Summary: "From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches:grinding, halting battles that sacrificed millions of lives for no territory or visible gain. Yet the first months of the war, from the German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013