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Summary: A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA W

Summary: Tells the story of former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COM

Moore, Julianne

Summary: Behind-the-scenes dramatization of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GAM

Grippando, James

Summary: As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRI

Levithan, David

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEV

Summary: Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUT RATED PG-13

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Butler 2013

Spiotta, Dana

Summary: "A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at 52, she finds herself staring into "the Mids"--that hour of supreme wakefulness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPI

Homes, A. M.

Summary: "The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOM

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HAR

Cole, Lee, 1990-

Summary: "A love story set in the foothills of Appalachia about two very different people--Owen, from Kentucky, and Alma, the daughter of Bosnian immigrants--navigating the entanglements of class and identify in an America coming apart at the seams"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COL

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COL

Grippando, James

Summary: As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Summary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD S

Limbaugh, Rush H.

Summary: When one of the time-traveling crew is running for student-body president at Manchester Middle School, Rush Revere takes them back in history to witness the election and leadership of our first three presidents.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD J LIM

McNees, Kelly O'Connor

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCN

DiMartino, Michael Dante

Summary: What will it take to stop a war? King Wu's dreams of peacefully transitioning the Earth Kingdom into a democracy are in danger when Commander Guan throws his political hat in the ring, hoping to subvert the new system from the inside out. But playing fair was never part of his plan; Guan and Dr. Sheng are using terrifying new technology to cement Guan's win! In a desperate attempt to save the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019

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Summary: Tom Dobbs makes an offhand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Man 2006

McQuiston, Casey

Summary: "When his mother became President of the United States, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius -- his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex/Henry...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Roth, Philip.

Summary: When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROT

DiMartino, Michael Dante

Summary: On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom finds its future endangered by its past. Even as Kuvira stands trial for her crimes, vestiges of her imperial ambitions threaten to undermine the nation's democratic hopes. But when Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin don't all see eye-to-eye as to the solution, drastic measures will be taken to halt a new march to war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019

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Merullo, Roland.

Summary: The American political system is thrown into a tizzy when Jesus appears and announces that he is planning to run for president, sending the two major party candidates and the world media into a last-ditch effort to discredit him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MER

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MER

Patterson, James

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Summary: US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PAT

Uris, Leon

Summary: A man who is seeking election as president of the United States discovers that his biological parents were Jews. He is Quinn O'Connell, a Jew adopted by Irish Catholic parents and his opponent prepares to exploit this.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URI

Lewis, Sinclair

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Summary: A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this work that prophesies the coming of totalitarianism in the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classics 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEW

Contents: Crazy hair day -- and more funny school adventures. Crazy hair day / written and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg -- Petunia / written and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin -- How do dinosaurs go to school? / written by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Mark Teague -- Monty / written and illustrated by James Stevenson -- Will I have a friend? / by Miriam Cohen ; illustrated by Lillian Hoban.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CRA

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