Summary: Based on journalist Kim Barker's memoir "The Taliban shuffle: strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", which details her years as a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in 2002.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Whiskey 2016Summary: "Analysis of how governments bent on war-making have relied on a vast arsenal of propaganda techniques to overcome resistance at home and disapproval abroad ... Moving from Vietnam to Iraq, the film examines how news reports have become nearly indistinguishable from White House and Pentagon talking points, a problem that has become exacerbated by journalists who have grown accustomed to being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WARSummary: A film that investigates new and controversial techniques and methods for treating PTSD but more than that, it is a look into the lives of veterans in America today. It is an authentic portrayal of veterans today in America and their bitter combat to overcome drug addiction, criminal issues, and their individual struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Through investigation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILBaron, Martin
Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BARSummary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV USSummary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THAHolzer, Harold.
Summary: Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed his relations with the press of his day to move public opinion forward to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM HOLSummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OILBest, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESSign, Christopher
Summary: The plan was perfect. No cameras, no microphones, no prying eyes and plenty of security. The setting for a clandestine meeting could not have been better. Former President Bill Clinton exited Attorney General Loretta Lynch's private plane 20-minutes after he boarded. Both thought they got away with it. Both were wrong. Amid a heated Presidential race, federal investigations involving emails and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crest Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 SIGKarl, Jonathan
Summary: As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl tells the story of Trump's downfall, complete with riveting behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the darkest days in the history of the American presidency. Packed with on-the-record interviews with central figures in this drama who are telling their stories for the first time, this is a definitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KARGregorio, Katharine
Summary: "Illuminating a thrilling untold chapter of the Cold War, The Double Life of Katharine Clark shares the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a male-dominated profession. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist, and risking her life to smuggle away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, KATHARINE GRERuliffson, Jess
Summary: "Candid, compassionate graphic interviews with returning war vets from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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Summary: "The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Heather Hendershot argues that a moment long understood as sitting at the crux of American political history-the chaos of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago-is also crucial to understanding the country's media history. By scrutinizing those events and broadcasts in precise detail, Hendershot documents the emergence of the idea that the media are inherently liberal. As she shows, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 HENSummary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKChesney, Will
Summary: "Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a SEAL Team Operator whose life would be irrevocably tied to Cairo's. Starting in 2008, when Will was introduced to the SEAL canine program, he and Cairo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 921 CHESNEYCarpenter, 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--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 CARHarnden, Toby
Summary: America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan--where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 HARKesling, Ben
Summary: "In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division. A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar's notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three soldiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 KESCole, Matthew A.
Summary: "The Navy SEALs are, for most Americans, the ultimate heroes. Their 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden was celebrated as a victory in the War on Terror. Former SEALs rake in thousands of dollars as leadership consultants for American corporations. And young men who want to join the military dream of serving in their elite ranks. But as recent revelations, like the uproar around former SEAL Eddie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.9 COLMiller, Christopher C.
Summary: "President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an insider look at the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden. If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's that he was President Donald Trump's final Secretary of Defense, elevated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLER, CHRISTOPHER C. MILZullo, Allan.
Summary: Ten stories of American heroes who have risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010