Carpenter, Kyle
Summary: November 21, 2010. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward him and fellow Marine Nick Eufrazio. Without hesitation, Carpenter jumped on the grenade, saving Eufrazio but sacrificing himself. Severely wounded, it took dozens of surgeries and almost three years to reconstruct his body--...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 CARBest, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESMills, Travis
Summary: "Retired U.S. Army staff sergeant Travis Mills, one of only five soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to survive a quadruple amputation, shares the story of his remarkable recovery"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MILLS, TRAVIS MILZullo, Allan.
Summary: Ten stories of American heroes who have risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1045 ZULFarwell, Matt
Summary: "The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERGDAHL, BOWE FARHerndon, Booton.
Summary: The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldn't fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend himself. They called him a coward, but the soft--spoken medic insisted that his mission was to heal, not kill. Herndon shares the story of how Doss became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Remnant Publications 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Moore, Kate
Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PACKARD, E.P.W. MOOProser, Jim
Summary: "When General James Mattis took command of the First Division in 2000, he took for their motto a paraphrase of Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla: "No better friend, no worse enemy." In 2003, General James N. Mattis shared a "Message to All Hands," to his soldiers. He shared with them the importance of the mission, the goal to act with honor, and ended with the motto he brought to his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATTIS, JAMES PROPiper, Karen Lynnea
Summary: "A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles. The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PIPER, KAREN PIPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PIPER PIPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PiperSledge, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLEKerry, John
Summary: "John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life--from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state for four years--in this revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important events of our recent history. [This book] is John Kerry's candid personal story. A Yale graduate, Kerry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KERRY, JOHN KERHendershot, Heather
Summary: "Few conservatives are as revered and admired as William F. Buckley. Buckley is best known for founding National Review, the flagship journal of the right. But his long-running talk show Firing Line was equally important, because it allowed him to reach beyond the conservative enclave and engage millions of mainstream Americans. When Firing Line premiered in 1966, only two years after Barry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 HENStahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaWaller, Douglas C.
Summary: "The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had-- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: "When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, his friend Don Knotts called to ask if his sheriff could use a deputy. Together, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife elevated The Andy Griffith Show from a folksy sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship. The program was fiction, but the friendship was powerful and real."--Book jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.45 DEVDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs. Written by Don Knotts's brother-in-law and featuring extensive unpublished interviews with those closest to both men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 DE VMiller, Scott
Summary: "Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULLES, ALLEN MILDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: "A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind The Andy Griffith Show--one of America's most iconic television programs"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 DEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 deVise 2015Kanigel, Robert
Summary: Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, JANE KANBogle, Donald
Summary: "An eye-opening and unique biography of two larger-than-life legends--Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson--and their unlikely yet enduring friendship"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 BOGPatrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PATBeals, Melba
Summary: A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEALS BEAPaul, Alan
Summary: The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an Epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, Foreword by drummer Chris Layton, and Aterword by bassist Tommy Shannon. Despite the cinematic scope of Vaughan's life and death, there has never been a truly proper accounting of his story--until now.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAUGHAN, STEVIE RAY PAUGuiet, Daniel (Daniel C.)
Summary: "The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019