Biden, Jill
Summary: Joe Biden grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children. His parents always encouraged him and his siblings to be independent and strong. The family moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where at twenty-nine, Biden was elected one the youngest United States Senators ever elected. This is his story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 BIDHoobler, Dorothy
Summary: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler share a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage, they often showed a side the public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 920 AREMillard, Candice
Summary: "For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the nineteenth century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe--and extend their colonial empires. Two British men--Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke--were sent by the Royal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 916.204 MILAbrams, Dan
Summary: At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 ABRWoodward, Bob
Summary: The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. Woodward and Costa take readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened. They also provide a look at Biden's presidency as he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.933 WOOMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINBrady, Tim
Summary: General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In the First World War, Ted braved gunfire and gas attacks...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE BRABush, George W. (George Walker)
Summary: Never before has a president told the story of his father, another president, through his own eyes and in his own words. A unique and intimate biography, it covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career. It shines new light on both the accomplished statesman and the warm, decent man known best by his family. In addition, George W. Bush discusses his father's influence on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BUSH,GEORGE HW BUSMatthews, Chris
Summary: Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F. JR. MATChernow, Ron
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. CHESimon, Carly
Summary: A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, this work is a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 SIMON, CARLY SIMMoss, Marissa
Summary: The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MEIFraser, Caroline.
Summary: The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series. Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls-the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017