Schneier, Bruce
Summary: A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.4834 SCHMallery, Susan.
Summary: Susan Mallery presents the first novel in the Blackberry Island series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MALBerry, Steve
Summary: Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day - April 30, 1945 - and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERMeyler, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MEYBruder, Jessica
Summary: In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects--transient older Americans who call themselves "workampers." From campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions and the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 331.3Mailer, Norman
Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAIBrach, Tara.
Summary: Dr. Tara Brach shows how feelings of shame and unworthiness are the source of many problems in relationships, careers, creative endeavors, and in spiritual unfolding. With insights from both Eastern contemplative traditions and Western psychotherapies, Dr. Brach guides listeners through a program of meditations and skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.3 BRAHalls, Kelly Milner
Summary: Presents three true stories about caring humans who saved a blind tiger, an albino bat, and a trio of down-on-their-luck monkeys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: Few know the warship’s actual name. Fewer still know what it really is. And almost no one knows of its unique ability, an ability that could tilt the balance of power if not outright win the war.But everyone has heard the rumors. Rumors about the worst place the Planetary Union Fleet can send you. Rumors of a ship with an eighty percent crew mortality rate. In these hushed, fearful whispers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIGBrock, Amber.
Summary: Set in the glamorous 1920s, this is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus. Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist shrouds his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Boyce, Erica
Summary: Daniel travels through America's countryside, creating astonishing crop circles that leave communities mystified. But when a dying Vermont corn farmer hires Daniel in an effort to breathe new life into the town he loves, Daniel is drawn into a community struggling to stitch itself back together. For once he is forced to stand still, and face the past he's been running from all this years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOYMillard, Candice
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War. At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for parliament. He believed that to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 968 MILMillard, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 916.204 MILMillard, Candice.
Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 MilPerry, Bruce D. (Bruce Duncan)
Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Tara Brach offers listeners a collection of insights and practices for bringing compassion, clarity, and understanding to their emotional lives instead of expressing or repressing them in unhealthy ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.12 BRABunce, Elizabeth C.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her fathers law books and her mums microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BUNHale, Bruce
Summary: "Why don't dinosaurs go to school? In Danny and the Dinosaur: School Days, the dinosaur gets curious and follows his friend Danny to school! But Danny's buddy is too big to ride the school bus, and school lunch isn't quite right for a dinosaur... So, he decides to do school his own way--dino style--and it turns out to be the best class ever! This is a level One I Can Read, which means it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy, a bombadier named Yossarian is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. He has decided to live forever, even if he has to die in the attempt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HELMuller, Jerry Z.
Summary: This course is a cross between a text on economic theory and intellectual history bringing together the classic texts on capitalism beginning with its classical underpinnings. Dr. Muller's discussion provides the philosophical background to other studies in economic theory and history such as Socialism, Marxism with Capitalism and links them to the rest of the intellectual historical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2008
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Springsteen, Bruce.
Summary: Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as 'The Big Bang': seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE SprFuller, Alexandra
Summary: In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FULLER, NICOLA FulFuller, Alexandra
Summary: Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FULLER, ALEXANDRA FULFuller, David
Summary: Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war. When an old freedwoman who once saved Cassius from Hoke's wrath is killed, Cassius risks everything to avenge her death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008