Balis, Andrea
Summary: Describes the events, personalities, and issues involved in the Watergate Affair, featuring quotes from primary source materials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.924 BALBalis, Andrea
Summary: "A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Summary: "Andrew Wyeth painted the landscapes and people in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, and in mid-coast Maine, where he spent each summer--places that would inspire him for over seven decades. This centennial exhibition is a fitting moment to trace the threads that weave through the art of Andrew Wyeth, which never failed to engage viewers and confound critics through the long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye? Do you see enemies all around you? If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing, well, you've just stumbled upon the playbook that will guide you step by step towards making your big lie a reality. Join Gaslit Nation co-hosts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 KENPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWGelman, Andrew/ Park, David/ Shor, Boris/ Bafumi, Joseph
Contents: Introduction -- Rich state, poor state -- How the talking heads can be so confused -- Income and voting over time -- Inequality and voting -- Religious reds and secular blues -- The United States in comparative perspective -- Polarized parties -- Competing to build a majority coalition -- Putting it all together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 GELCodrescu, Andrei
Summary: "So Recently Rent a World gathers new poems and selections from the 16 books of verse that Codrescu has published since arriving in the U.S. as a teen refuge from communist Romania...'So Recently Rent a World let me to put a period on four decades writing and the old culture that the writing reflected."--The Times-Picayune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CODCodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 CODBemis, Bette L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. Ltd. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.411 BEMAndreas, Joel.
Summary: Cultural Writing. Political Science. Government. Education. ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 ANDKillen, Andreas.
Contents: Fear of flying -- Reality programming -- Operation homecoming -- Personality crisis -- Warholism -- Reinventing the fifties -- Power shift -- Conspiracy nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KILLandra, Maie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth & Spring Books 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.432 LANAndros, Camille
Summary: The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1983
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Summary: A collection of essays that explore how the past, present, and future coexist and intertwine along the highways and back roads of the small towns and villages of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, and his native Poland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.858 STAAndreas, Peter
Summary: "In his path-breaking Killer High, Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs--ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic--have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. Beer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 ANDTjernshaugen, Andreas
Summary: "Throughout this captivating book, Tjernshaugen investigates the fox's place in our own cultural history--such as Reynard the Fox, the Scandinavian inspiration for Disney's Robin Hood, and the fables of Aesop, which depict foxes as sly and cunning, a reputation that may not be fully earned, Tjernshaugen argues. What is true is "the fox is wilder than other wildlife...and largely survives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2024
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Summary: Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Current 2014
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Summary: "The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery-and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific--and then,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TERAndrus, Aubre
Summary: Whether you brought home a puppy who needs to learn how to walk on a leash or you're trying to teach an old dog some new tricks, this guide covers it all, including more than 40 different training activities. With tips from veterinarian Dr. Gary Weitzman, you can take your dog through basic training and problem-solving exercises, and teach the pup some paws-itively amazing acrobatics. And if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2002
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Summary: Suggests ways in which to make the world a better place, including ideas for helping others at home, at school, and in the community through donations and volunteering; environmental activities; and ways to improve oneself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 1995