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Summary: "Jasper and Mira must escape the rift and deliver a message from the Youli to Earth Force before the war destroys their planet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2018
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TESEstrada, Ryan
Summary: "A student ambassador is sent on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to a far away land, where he and a newly crowned boy king are thrust into a globe-trotting action-adventure mystery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ESTTesler, Monica
Summary: "Jasper and his friends are sent as ambassadors to the underwater planet of Earth Force's shady new allies, the Alkalinians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TESBambola, Sylvia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMPacker, George
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, wholly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLBROOKE, RICHARD PACMurray, Craig
Summary: A former British ambassador in Uzbekistan discusses his witness to brutality under the regime of dictator and western ally Islam Karimov, describing the political dogma he encountered from London's Foreign Office and their senior partners in Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.7086 MURRice, Susan E.
Summary: Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice, who served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, delivers an account of a life in service to family and country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RICE, SUSAN E. RICFreedman, Suzanne
Summary: Focuses on the career of the former United States ambassador to the United Nations who became the first woman to serve as Secretary of State.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ALBRIGHT FRESteil, Jennifer.
Summary: From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In 1943, Coast Guard captain Josh Thurlow leads a desperate venture to Japanese-held islands of the South Pacific to track down a Medal of Honor hero and an ambassador's missing son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICKlein, Aaron.
Summary: An investigative journalist exposes significant issues related to the Benghazi attack, including secretive activities inside the doomed facility, the withholding of critical protection, the fate of Ambassador Chris Stevens, and the role Hillary Clinton played in the scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WND Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KLEMorris, Sylvia Jukes.
Summary: Born illegitimate on New York's Upper West Side, with nothing to recommend her but blonde good looks and a ferocious intelligence, she used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction and drama. At ten, Clare Boothe understudied Mary Pickford on Broadway. At twenty, she was both a suffragette and a siren to well-placed men on both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUCNasaw, David.
Summary: Draws on exclusive access to the subject's records to offer insight into his shrewd financial talents and considerable ambition for his family, discussing the controversies surrounding his character and his role in several mainstream political events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOSEPH P. NASNeggers, Carla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEGPower, Samantha
Summary: Pulitzer Prize winning humanitarian Samantha Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" In this memoir, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. In 2005, her critiques of U.S. foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWER, SAMANTHA POWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B POWER POWRushdie, Salman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSSheldon, Sidney.
Summary: The story of a woman trapped by a diabolical international conspiracy. The action races from the president's Oval Office to the hot Latino beat of Buenos Aires to the romance of Paris and Rome to the shadowy dangers of Bucharest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow and Co. 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHESmith, Jean Kennedy
Summary: The last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy presents an intimate portrait of her family's shared life that describes how her parents would encourage their children to discuss current events, forge a strong work ethic, and appreciate the sacrifices of their ancestors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KENNEDY SMISwift, Will
Summary: Fresh interpretation of the ambassadorship of Joseph Kennedy and explores the intricate, often shifting relationships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and Roosevelt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sally Adams has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington, D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lichtenburg. Once she is installed in her new position, shes falls in love with the sauve Foreign Minister Cosmo Constantine, while Princess Maria has her head turned by Sally's press attaché, Kenneth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CALAlbright, Madeleine Korbel.
Summary: The former U.S. Secretary of State and United Nations ambassador chronicles her life, from her childhood as a Czechoslovakian refugee through her rise to power in the world of international diplomacy and policy-making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALBMartine, Arkady
Summary: "During a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMcKean, David
Summary: "A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put,holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MCKRonald, Susan
Summary: "Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court ofSt. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021