Harris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Luiselli 2019Maden, Mike
Summary: "When China stakes a dubious claim in the hotly disputed waters of the East China Sea, the prime minister of Japan threatens to dispatch the country's naval assets and tear up its antiwar constitution unless the Americans forcefully intervene. The war-weary Americans are reluctant to confront the powerful Chinese navy directly, but if the Japanese provoke a military conflict with their historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MADMaden, Mike
Summary: "Troy Pearce and his team of drone experts are called to action when ISIS launches a series of attacks on U.S. soil. On the eve of President Lane's historic Asian Security Summit, a hobby-store quadcopter lands on the White House lawn carrying a package and an ominous threat: Fly the enclosed black flag of ISIS over the White House by noon today or suffer the consequences. The threat further...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MADBrown, Dale
Summary: When the U.S. develops intelligence showing that Iran is in the final stages of assembling a nuclear bomb, the president orders Breanna Stockard and the Whiplash team to destroy it. Left with no other choice, Stockard sends young Air Force ace Turk Mako behind enemy lines. His orders: pilot a squadron of high-tech nano-UAVs from inside Iran to destroy the weapon and its assembly bunker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROChildress, Ron
Summary: When Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is tasked with launching a missile against a suspected terrorist halfway across the world, she realizes that though women and children are in the crosshairs of her screen, she has no choice but to follow orders. Ethan, a young Wall Street quant, is involved in a more bloodless connection to war when he develops an algorithm that enables his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Childress 2015Rosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "The world's most wanted terrorist is dead. Marcus Ryker recommended the drone strike himself. The intelligence was rock-solid. But what if it was wrong? Abu Nakba-the man responsible for lethal attacks in Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem-is finally dead. Marcus Ryker has been tasked with hunting down and destroying what's left of the terror group Kairos. But before Ryker can mobilize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSuarez, Daniel
Summary: When her research is being used to run unmanned drones, Lindsey McKinney and Odin, a Special Ops soldier with an insight into the faceless enemy, must slow the advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUASummary: The incredible true story of the spy who defied her government to stop a war. In 2003, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun received a memo with a shocking directive: collect blackmail worthy information on UN council members to force the vote for the invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world rush into war. Gun makes the decision to leak the memo to the press, igniting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OFF1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OFF
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OFFSummary: Teenage secret agent Cody Banks must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue and left the States with a mind-control microchip. Cody masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist who lives in London and is the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way, Cody hooks up with a demoted agent and a teenage Scotland Yard operative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AGEColeman, Reed Farrel
Summary: When a high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it's clear that the opioid epidemic has reached the idyllic town of Paradise. Police chief Jesse Stone must unravel the supply chain and unmask the criminals behind it. The investigation's epicenter is Paradise High School, a prime market for Boston dealers looking to expand into the suburbs. As he digs deeper into the case,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: "A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States--or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong--and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEVHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: "For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel -- or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGSummary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADVDorgan, Byron L.
Summary: When covert agents acquire a computer virus capable of shutting down an entire country's power systems, an ensuing attack unleashes chaos throughout the U.S., pitting North Dakota sheriff Nate Osborne and journalist Ashley Borden against an elite terrorist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORSummary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Zora Michaels hides her genius and passion for technology behind a girly image, but when a boy goes missing just as a forest fire threatens, Zora and a Drone Academy friend help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MANHaynes, Dana.
Summary: When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team--the "crashers"--is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Usually the team has months to determine the cause of a crash. But this time it's different. This time, the plane was brought down deliberately, without leaving a trace, and this was only a trial run.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYRayner, Abigail
Summary: When Eliza Jane Murphy--line leader, captain of the worm rescue team--impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom's "Exploring Green" display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back ... But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG RAYPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2020Winston, Sherri
Summary: "Wednesday's brother's drone went missing in their own backyard. And that can mean only one thing--the thief is one of their friends! Can the neighborhood's newest service dog help Wednesday sniff out the bandit? Or will the case of the missing drone be a doggone disaster?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WINDahl, Michael
Summary: When Zak, a human teenager from Earth Base Zeta, and his teenage Furling friend, Erro, stowed away on a military spacecraft they thought they were going to see a space battle--instead they ended up on the prison planet, Alcatraz, and now they are being pursued by the prison's killer drones through a jungle which may be just as deadly as any drone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Despite complaints from fellow Drone Academy member Parker, Howard To, sixteen, uses his drone to try to stop the stalker using a similar device to spy on Howard's idol, a famous actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: Based on the true-life story of Yurok men called to serve in World War I, this story follows three cousins as they struggle with being combat soldiers on the Western Front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Oak Press 2019