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Generals United States Biography Intelligence officers United States Biography Lansdale, Edward Geary 1908-1987 Large type books Rap (Music) Rhythm and blues music United States. Army Biography United States. Central Intelligence Agency Officials and employees Biography Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States Western storiesBrod, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1947
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ BROBoot, Max
Summary: A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust. "The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANSDALE, EDWARD BOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANDSDALE BOOBoot, Max
Summary: As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, [this book] presents an urgent defense of American democracy. Pronouncing Mexican immigrants to be "rapists," Donald Trump announced his 2015 presidential bid, causing Max Boot to think he was watching a dystopian science-fiction movie. The respected conservative historian couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.52 BOOBoot, Max
Summary: In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and mind" diplomacy, first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Bad habits / (Ed Sheeran) -- Cold heart (PNAU remix) / (Elton John & Dua Lipa) -- My universe / (Coldplay X BTS) -- Take my breath / (The Weeknd) -- No / (Little Mix) -- Talk about / (Rain Radio & DJ Craig Gorman) -- Black magic / (Jonasu) -- OUT OUT / (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charlie XCX & Saweetie) -- Remember / (Becky Hill & David Guetta) -- traitor / (Olivia Rodrigo) -- Happier...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM NOW 2021Brand, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRABrand, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W BRABrand, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W BRABrand, Max
Summary: Edward Dugan left his home in Boston with a bequest from his father--mining certificates giving him ownership of the Christabel mine. Although they have a face value of 250,000 dollars, the mine has been declared worthless. However, Henry Christian, the man who originally sold the mining stock to Dugan's father, has offered to buy back the stock certificates for 1,500 dollars. Since he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRABrand, Max
Summary: "Many men had set out to capture a magnificent stallion named Parade but none had yet triumphed through the hardships to gain the ultimate prize. Silvertip was a dangerous cowboy who could rip out the heart of a mountain lion with his bare hands and when he hunted Parade, he took only a rope and raw courage. But trailing him, guns at their sides, were two killers who wanted the cowboy as badly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Brand 2021Brand, Max.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1922
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrand, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W BRABrand, Max
Contents: Wine on the desert -- Virginia creeper -- Macdonald's dream -- Partners -- Dust across the range -- The bells of San Carlos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrand, Max
Summary: While Riley Sinclair relentlessly pursues the men who abandoned his injured younger brother, leaving him to die in the desert, one of the pursued commits suicide and another saves Sinclair from a lynching party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrand, Max
Contents: Sheriff Larrabee's prisoner -- A shower of silver -- Stolen gold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrand, Max
Summary: "When well-to-do Southerner Charles Granville saves Sam Cross from a fatal stabbing and notices they bear a striking resemblance to each other, he convinces Sam to pose as Granville whenever he asks--an agreement that just might get Sam killed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRABrand, Max
Summary: "In "The White Streak," twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how he will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fiancée, who wants to marry. When his father signs over the old family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1926
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRASummary: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Brand 1990Brand, Max
Summary: "Beaten and disfigured by Jack Rutledge, Winsor Glanvil recovers in the mountain den of a she-wolf and her cub. When spring comes, he leaves the den to exact revenge on Rutledge, accompanied by the wolves he has befriended"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrand, Max
Summary: "Peter Quince was a fighter born and bred. Orphaned at a young age, he remembered an old woman saying that he was a bad one and would cause a lot of trouble in the world. Others claimed he had bad blood and it would show up sooner or later. But Bill Andrews felt a connection with the boy, took him home and raised him as one of his own despite his wife's misgivings. Peter soon learned he could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 1996