Rogers, Katie
Summary: "The first definitive exploration of the role of the twenty-first century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden and the evolution of the First Lady's role from ceremonial figurehead to political operative--from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Since the Clinton era, tectonic shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.934 ROGGallagher, Eddie
Summary: On September 11, 2018, Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher--a highly-decorated combat veteran with nine deployments to war zones in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq--was arrested for war crimes at the TBI medical clinic where he was receiving treatment. His incarceration was the culmination of a year-long whisper campaign started by a group of disgruntled members of his SEAL platoon after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballast Books, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, EDDIE GALPhilipps, David
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Philipps uncovers the shocking rise and fall of Eddie Gallagher, the decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes during his deployment to Mosul, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 PHIBunting, Josiah
Summary: "A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Willink, the task unit commander, planned and executed the strategy for Task Unit Bruiser, which had huge impact in the 'Battle of Ramadi'. Babin, as commander of Charlie Platoon (one of two SEAL platoons in Task Unit Bruiser) led countless combat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.3 WILLewis, John
Summary: "In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront questions of social inequality there's no better time to revisit the lessons of the '60s and no better leader to learn from than Congressman John Lewis. In Across That Bridge, Congressman Lewis draws from his experience as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 LEWWong, Ali
Summary: "In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly with viewers that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, working women, and why you never see new-mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. Wong's sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WONG, ALI WONSegura, Tom
Summary: Segura is known for his twisted takes and irreverent comedic voice, but after a few busy years of work and parenting, he just wants to hide from everything. In this collection of true stories, he takes a revealing look at some of the situations that have shaped him. Readers will be laughing out loud-- and nodding in agreement with his message that, in a world where everyone is increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEGURA, TOM SEGKelly, Scott
Summary: "Using ten life-changing moments from his path to space, Astronaut Scott Kelly shares his advice for mastering fear and failure, and turning our daily struggles into rocket fuel for success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 629.45 KELSledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)
Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLEMojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJBenoit, Sophia
Summary: From GQ columnist and Twitter sensation, this hilarious, clever, and eye-opening memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhood, from finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate life₂s constant double standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 BENBosh, Chris
Summary: Bosh had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition. Forced to reckon with how to find meaning to carry forward, he found himself looking back over his path, from a teenager in Dallas who balanced basketball with the high school robotics club to the pinnacle of the NBA and beyond. He saw that his important lessons weren't about basketball so much as the inner game of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BOSH RILVon Drehle, David
Summary: "When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship -- and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor. Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone. When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC VONVickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VICKERS, MICHAEL G. VICHillenbrand, Laura
Summary: In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history s most thrilling survival epics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2017
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Summary: In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel", which criminalized any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of powerful antiroyalist politicians, Zenger was jailed for nine months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZENGER, JOHN PETER KLUMcConaughey, Matthew
Summary: "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOSchwartz, Morris S.
Summary: "From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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Summary: "An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LONGSTREET, JAMES VARFloyd, John Lewis
Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival FloydWolkoff, Stephanie Winston
Summary: Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump's then girlfriend. As their friendship deepened over lunches, black-tie parties, and giggle sessions in the penthouse at Trump Tower, Wolkoff watched the newest Mrs. Trump manage her highly scrutinized marriage. After Trump won the 2016 election, Wolkoff was recruited to help produce the 58th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLKOFF, STEPHANIE WINSTON WOLFriedman, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid. She quit music in college but never stopped fantasizing about what her life might be like if she had never put down her bow. Years later, a freelance writer in New York, she again finds herself struggling with her fantasy of an artist's life versus its much more complicated reality. In search of answers, she decides to track down her childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019