Hughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGElish, Dan
Summary: On-point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the story of the raid that captured bin Laden to life. Kids will feel as though they are in the room with President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the others in the cabinet who called for and monitored the raid. Primary source quotations make the event feel immediate, and photographs by the White House...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.104 ELIBergen, Peter L.
Summary: Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of Al-Qaeda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 BERDay, Nick (Nicholas)
Summary: "The story of the composer John Cage's famous composition of four minutes and 33 seconds of empty sheet music, and its first performance by the pianist David Tudor"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Summary: "In the first book to explore President Obama's leadership style by digging into the details of his biggest successes and failures, New York Times bestselling journalist Richard Miniter investigates the secret world of the West Wing and the combative personalities that shape world events. Based on exclusive interviews, inside sources, and never-before-published material, Leading from Behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 MINScheuer, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1046 SCHMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "The Lost Art of Silence encourages us to embrace this pursuit and allow the warm light of silence to glow. Invoking the wisdom of many of the greatest writers, thinkers, contemplatives, historians, musicians, and artists, Sarah Anderson reveals the sublime nature of quiet that's all too often undervalued. Throughout, she shares her own penetrating insights into the potential for silence to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2023
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Summary: A narrative thriller about the battle royale surrounding Barack Obama's quest for a second term amid widespread joblessness and one of the most poisonous political climates in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ALTLintott, Chris
Summary: The world of science has been transformed. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they receive is overwhelming; projects now being built provide more data in a few nights than in the whole of humanity's history of observing the Universe....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LINWallace, Chris
Summary: Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 WALGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERPutnam, Robert D.
Summary: "What has happened to the Land of Opportunity? The promise of the American Dream is that anyone, regardless of his or her origins, can have a fair start in life. If we work hard, we can get a good education and achieve success. But over the last several decades a disturbing 'opportunity gap' has unexpectedly emerged between kids from 'have' and 'have-not' backgrounds. The central tenet of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 PUTHill, Kashmir
Summary: "In this riveting feat of reporting, Kashmir Hill illuminates the improbable rise of Clearview AI and how Hoan Ton-That, a computer engineer and Richard Schwartz, a Giuliani associate, launched a terrifying facial recognition app with society-altering potential. They were assisted by a cast of controversial characters, including conservative provocateur Charles Johnson and billionaire Trump...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.2 HILO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOBulkeley, Kelly
Summary: "What if our dreams could offer spiritual insight for personal growth and social transformation? Leading dream expert Kelly Bulkeley brings us time-honored methods to stimulate our innate dreaming capacity, including the latest research on dreaming and strategies from seasoned, vivid dreamers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books, an imprint of 1517 Media 2023
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Summary: "No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADGETT, JASON PADPahlka, Jennifer
Summary: "A bold call to reexamine how our government operates-and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America. Just when we most need our government to work-to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats-it is faltering. Government at all levels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GREWeschcke, Carl Llewellyn
Summary: Dreams fascinate the mind and the imagination, and now those dreams can be harnessed to enrich daily life through the power of intentional dreaming. Written in part by Louis Culling and completed by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Dream ESP is the key to creating a partnership between your subconscious and conscious self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 135 WESPerlroth, Nicole
Summary: Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32 PERDeBord, J. M.
Summary: Takes you step-by-step through the process of learning the language of your dreams. It is a language like any other. It has nouns (characters and settings), verbs (actions and your reactions), and adjectives (symbols and feelings). At first you may only catch the simple words and phrases, then whole sentences and paragraphs, but soon enough you will get all the subtext, humor, irony, and slang....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.63 MELSingh, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999