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Contents: Europe at war -- The allies plan an impossible invasion -- The big picture -- Men + machines = victory -- D-Day -- The drive to victory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BENSullivan, Anne Marie.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROO SULWicker, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EISDemuth, Patricia
Summary: "In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D-Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 DEMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 DEMWicker, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISTydings, Joseph D. (Joseph Davies)
Summary: "Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir, Tydings looks back on a life of public service, from the Maryland General Assembly to chief federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A & M University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYDINGS, JOSEPH D TYDKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking with refugees, border...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9181 KAPHodge, Roger D.
Summary: "An intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 HODMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, heads to Normandy on the morning of the D-Day invasion where he meets Leo, a Jewish boy who is hiding with a local farmer, and Walt, a young American soldier fighting to free France from the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESVarious Artists
Contents: Cigarette lighter / Japanese Telecom. -- Breakout / Ectomorph. -- Minors at night / Adult. -- Fogdust vs. Detroit / Paris the Black Fu. -- It's time / Keith Tucker. -- Whatchulookinat / DJ Godfather. -- Hoes / DJ Assault. -- No no / Aaron-Carl. -- If snow was black / Detroit Grand Pubahs. -- Murder scene / Andy Toth. -- A.M. / Maersk. -- Capture / Tony Ollivierra. -- Character maps remix /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Intuit-Solar 1969
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC COMEstleman, Loren D.
Contents: The bandit -- The tree on Execution Hill -- The angel of Santa Sofia -- Rossiter's stand -- The pilgrim -- The pioneer strain -- Young Mister St. John -- A web of books -- Mago's bride -- Bad blood -- Kate -- Hell on the draw -- Beds and bullets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTHarris, Kamala D.
Summary: Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, KAMALA D HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HARRIS HARKantar, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 KANHesketh, Roger Fleetwood
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 HESDallek, Robert
Summary: "A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and dealmaker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biographyof one of our greatest presidents than one that focuses on his unparalleled political ability as a uniter and consensus-maker. While Robert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. DALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT DALThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.3 THOBeevor, Antony
Summary: From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 BEEKershaw, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Vance, J. D.
Summary: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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4 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 VANCE, J.D. VANBrinkley, Douglas
Summary: Douglas Brinkley's Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision. Now Brinkley turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader--Theodore's distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt--chronicling his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 BRIMitchell, Edgar D.
Summary: An Apollo 14 astronaut recounts his life, including his early years living in Roswell, New Mexico, his time as a Navy combat pilot, and his incredible journey to the Moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 629.454 MITKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "A history of Romania traces the author's intellectual development throughout his extensive visits to the country, sharing his observations about its reflection of European politics, geography and key events while exploring the indelible role of Vladimir Putin."--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KAPRogers, D. Laurence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Historical Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 ROG1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 634.93 ROG
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 634.98 Rogers 1993Vance, J. D.
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016