Friend, Stephen
Summary: A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, STEPHEN FRILemmon, Gayle Tzemach
Summary: "The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolu-tion centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9104 LEMPacker, George
Summary: This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 PACBrown, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 BROPeterson, Scott.
Summary: "As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most horrific events of the last half century: the genocide in Rwanda. In Me Against My Brother, he brings these events together for the first time to record a collapse that has had an impact far beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.329 PETSummary: Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2007
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IRAGreen, Matthew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.6104 GRESmith, Graeme
Summary: A personal look at the war in Afghanistan from the perspective of a Canadian war correspondent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SMISummary: Chronicles the astonishing, true story of Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, who is a Quinché Indian woman, as she stood up for her people and helped wage a rebellion in the wake of seemingly unconquerable oppression. Shot at the height of the heated battle between the heavily-armed Guatemalan Military and the nearly defenseless Mayan population.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHECoates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: "As Zenzi and the people poison Wakanda's citizens against the Black Panther, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. And Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels, are courted by Tetu to help raise their land to new glory! His allies dwindling, T'Challa must rely on his elite secret police, the Hatut Zeraze, and fellow Avenger Eden Fesi, a.k.a. Manifold! And with T'Challa's back truly against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 956.7044 PACStrom, Christopher
Summary: "The true story of a retired NYPD intelligence sergeant who applies his street-cop tactics and interrogation skills against a lethal insurgency that had infected Iraq"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STROM, CHRISTOPHER STRWolraich, Michael.
Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 WOLBrooks, David
Summary: From the influential and hugely popular "New York Times" columnist and bestselling author of "Bobos in Paradise" comes a landmark exploration of how human beings and communities succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.513 BROBreen, T. H.
Summary: "Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging decades of received wisdom, T.H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans--most of them members of farm families living in small communities--were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. This is the compelling story of our national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BRERicks, Thomas E.
Contents: Containment -- A bad ending -- Containment and its discontents -- This changes everything: the aftermath of 9/11 -- The war of words -- The run-up -- The silence of the lambs -- Into Iraq -- Winning a battle -- How to create an insurgency (I) -- How to create an insurgency (II) -- The CPA: "can't produce anything" -- Getting tough -- The descent into abuse -- The long term -- "The Army of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 RICMasciotra, David
Summary: "The suburbs have become too liberal and diverse for many white American conservatives, so "exurbia"-areas outside the cities and their suburbs-are becoming the staging ground for the radical right extremist insurgency..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 MASFreedman, Lawrence
Summary: In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismissed by the British generals and admirals of the day not because the idea of submarines was technically unfeasible, but because no one could imagine that any nation would be so depraved as to sink...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 FREHarrison, Craig
Summary: "A world-record holding Blues and Royals sniper and military veteran traces the story of his career and tours in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, sharing suspenseful accounts of his life-saving ops, his struggles with severe PTSD and the terrorist threats that have been made against his family."--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, CRAIG HARVuillard, Éric
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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Contents: Destination Iran -- Removing the shackles -- Democracy after dark -- Nuclear pride -- "Death to America" -- The calm before the storm -- The all-night "party of God" -- Struggling for dignity -- Babies in the Ba'ath Party -- The road to Mesopotamia -- Iraqis who like us -- Waking up in the insurgency -- Epilogue : the youth party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.604 COHJones, Seth G.
Summary: "Following the September 11 attacks, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The U.S. established security throughout the country--killing, capturing, or scattering most of al Qa'ida's senior operatives--and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of struggle and conflict. But Jones argues that as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009