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Spotlight on civic actionBray, Ilona M.
Summary: "For a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best of all, you'll know that you are taking each needed step in the most efficient way. Becoming a U.S. Citizen also shows how you may be able to take advantage of special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 BRAU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Summary: American Government: In the United States, the government gets its power to govern from the people. We have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Citizens in the United States shape their government and its policies, so they must learn about important public issues and get involved in their communities. Learning about American government helps you understand your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.623 LEARoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: "In the voice of one of the most iconic and beloved political figures of the twentieth century comes a book on citizenship for the future voters of the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt published the original edition of When You Grow Up to Vote in 1932, the same year her husband was elected president. The new edition has updated information and back matter as well as fresh, bold art from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73 ROOGates, Michael
Summary: All you need to know to pass the naturalization exam free from anxiety. English and civic tests easily explained and a helpful study plan to save time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Gates 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.623 GATBond, Donald
Summary: Would you like to pass the exam to become a U.S. citizen without fear of failing and retaking it? You are about to figure out how to do it! Securing your future and that of your family should be your first and only priority today if you want to thrive in this country. Passing the U.S. Citizen's Examination is no picnic and puts most applicants who fail in a terrible situation. What you will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Donald Bond] 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 BONSmullen, Andrew
Summary: Your future depends on your US Citizenship test results. With this Exampedia study guide, you will have everything you need to succeed and achieve your goals. Our US Citizenship study guide includes: Guide Preview, Principles of American Democracy Review, System of Government Review, Rights and Responsibilities Review, Colonial Period and Independence Review, 1800s Review, Recent American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.623 SMUFilindra, Alexandra
Summary: "One-third of American adults--some 86 million people--own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Today it is common to associate US gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, but Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that gun-centric ideology rests on a very old, but different foundation--a belief system dating back to the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 FILBray, Ilona M.
Summary: This complete guide to becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen helps applicants make sure they are eligible for citizenship, understand the risks of applying, how to interview successfully and how to study for the citizenship exam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 BRAMcCormick, Joyce
Summary: In an era when Democrats and Republicans in the United States often disagree on key concepts, understanding how individuals and institutions interact to work toward the common good has never been more important. This informative text takes an in-depth look at civic engagement in the United States, focusing on institutions such as the news media, political parties, and the U.S. Postal Service....
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.6 MCCBray, Ilona M.
Summary: Want to live, work, or travel in the United States? U.S. Immigration Made Easy has helped tens of thousands of people get a visa, green card, or other immigration status. You'll learn: whether you and your family qualify for a short-term visa, permanent U.S. residence, or protection from deportation; how to obtain, fill out, and submit the necessary forms and documents; insider tips on dealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 BRAYBray, Ilona M.
Summary: "Want to live, work, or travel in the United States? U.S. Immigration Made Easy has helped tens of thousands of people get a visa, green card, or other immigration status. U.S. Immigration Made Easy provides detailed descriptions of application processes. There's also an immigration eligibility self-quiz, which helps you match your background and skills to a likely category of visa or green...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 BRABrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: "A timely and important picture book that introduces readers to Wong Kim Ark, who challenged the Supreme Court for his right to be an American citizen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARKLalami, Laila
Summary: "The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens." What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 LALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LALAMI LALBray, Ilona M.
Summary: "For a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best of all, you'll know that you are taking each needed step in the most efficient way. Becoming a U.S. Citizen also shows how you may be able to take advantage of special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 BRATaylor, Miles
Summary: "Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor--The Next Trump. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: "Frost explores how the United States' concept of citizenship and the rights of citizens has evolved, and especially how it has been challenged"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 FROPalmer, Parker J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 PALNewman, John J.
Summary: An expanded version of a paper delivered to the National Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 7, 1985, by John J. Newman, Indiana State Archivist
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family history section , Indiana Historical Society 1998
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 323.6 NEWLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights thecontradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 LUIWhitman, James Q.
Summary: Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 WHIThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020