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Robichaux, Chad

Summary: Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during his eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend. When President Biden announced in April 2021 that the United States would be making a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, it was vital to get Aziz and his family out before Taliban forces took over the country. Robichaux details the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 ROB

Morton, Kate

Summary: A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WWII. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn’t been...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morton 2010

Parkin, Simon

Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PAR

Wicks, Ben.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5316 WIC

Gassman, Julie

Summary: "Presents the heroic sea evacuation of September 11, 2001 with narrative text and vivid illustrations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974 GAS

White, Ralph

Summary: The true story of how one Chase Manhattan banker fought to the save the staff of its Saigon branch before the city fell to the North Vietnamese army in the waning days of the Vietnam War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, RALPH WHI

Davis, Daniel S.

Summary: Discusses the forced internment of Japanese Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, their way of life there, and their eventual assimilation into society following the war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1982

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5317 DAV

Zuckoff, Mitchell

Summary: "When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in acontentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Homeira tried and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 ZUC

Heiligman, Deborah

Summary: "A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 HEI

Russell, Jan Jarboe

Summary: The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II; where thousands of families, many US citizens, were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 RUS

Schueman, Tom

Summary: "In August 2021, just days shy of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, America ended its twenty-year war in Afghanistan. While the shocking scenes of desperation at the Kabul airport unfolded, United States Marine Major Tom Schueman fought--both behind the scenes and through a public social media campaign--to get his friend and former Afghan interpreter, Zainullah 'Zak' Zaki, out of Afghanistan...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 SCH

DiMartino, Michael Dante

Summary: Returning to the Spirit World, Korra and the Airbenders discover that it has become a barren landscape, meanwhile on the outskirts of the portal General Iroh's choice to establish a military presence threatens the balance of human and spirit relations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEG

Zuckerman, Larry.

Summary: Publisher description: In August 1914, the German Army invaded the neutral nation of Belgium, violating a treaty that the German chancellor dismissed as a "scrap of paper." The invaders terrorized the Belgians, shooting thousands of civilians and looting and burning scores of towns, including Louvain, which housed the country's preeminent university. The Rape of Belgium recalls the bloodshed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3493 ZUC

Murray, Julie

Summary: "This title will help readers understand the causes, timeline, and aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. The title is complete with glossary, index, and additional facts"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dash! Leveled Readers, an imprint of Abdo Zoom 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.17 MUR

Matthews, J. L.

Summary: To find the right kind of long-term care, you may need to make difficult personal, medical, and financial decisions during emotionally tough times. Long-Term Care helps you and your family understand the range of available choices. Even more important, it guides you toward the best care you can afford. You'll learn how to: explore your options for home care, assisted living, and nursing homes,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.16 MAT

Weir, Alison

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Weir, Alison

Summary: "Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WEI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Jervis, Robert

Contents: Adventures in intelligence -- Failing to see that the Shah was in danger : introduction, postmortem, and CIA comments -- Analysis of NFAC's performance on Iran's domestic crisis, mid-1977-7 November 1978 -- CIA comments on the report -- The Iraq WMD intelligence failure : what everyone knows is wrong -- The politics and psychology of intelligence and intelligence reform.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 JER

Hivert-Carthew, Annick.

Summary: In 1933, President Roosevelt offered a bold new plan to save a generation of men and preserve natural resources. Over 102,000 men answered his call. Here are their stories. Proud to Work describes the work and the lives of the young men who served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, where they fought forest fires, built bridges, created roads, and sent most of their earnings back to their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Adventure Books 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7516 HIV
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 333.7516 HIV

Summary: Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIV

Alexander, Jeff

Summary: "The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Local Author, Call number: 577.63 ALE
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.63 ALE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport Alexander

Weir, Alison

Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Kent, Timothy J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.401 KEN
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.401 KEN

Smith, Craig R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Idea Factory Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.41 SMI

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