Kudlow, Lawrence.

Summary: John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates across-the-board. One person who followed JFK's tax-cut growth model was Ronald Reagan. The never before told story is the link between JFK and Ronald Reagan. This is the secret history of American prosperity.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 330.9 KUD

Bradley, James

Summary: Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.4 BRA

Minutaglio, Bill

Summary: In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W.A. Criswell;...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F MIN

Finkel, David

Summary: From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after war.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.86 FIN

Cavallaro, Gina.

Summary: Authors Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen present heart-pounding real-life tales from the military's most experienced snipers--their hits and their misses, the anguish of loss, and the anxiety of the first kill--braving deadly situations to hit their targets dead-on.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 956.7044 CAV

Luxenberg, Steve

Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUX

Owen, Mark.

Summary: For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 OWENS, MARK OWE

Obama, Barack

Summary: In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency,a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, BARACK OBA

Logue, Mark.

Summary: Albert, Duke of York began to see speech therapist Lionel Logue in a desperate bid to cure his lifelong stammer. Little did the two men know that this unlikely friendship would ultimately save the House of Windsor from collapse. The amiable Logue gave the shy young Duke the skills and the confidence to stand and deliver before a crowd. And when his elder brother, Edward VIII, abdicated the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 941.084 LOG

Matthews, Chris

Summary: Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F. JR. MAT

Hillenbrand, Laura

Summary: In this captivating new young adult edition, the story of a man's breathtaking odyssey and the courage, cunning, and fortitude he found to endure and overcome. This gripping narrative will introduce a new generation to one of history's most thrilling survival epics.--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ZAMPERINI, LOUIS HIL

Murphy, Brian

Summary: Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CRANE, LEON MUR

Iturbe, Antonio

Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Itu

Fink, Sheri.

Summary: Reporter Sheri Fink unspools the mystery of what happened at Memorial Medical Center in the days after Hurricane Katrina; as the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.11 FIN

Brokaw, Tom.

Summary: The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.927 BRO

Worth, Jennifer

Summary: When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives; she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WORTH, JENNIFER WOR

Hill, Clint.

Summary: Clint Hill will forever be remembered as the lone secret service agent who jumped onto the car after President Kennedy was shot. He recounts his memories of those five days leading up to, and after, that tragic day in November 1963. Told movingly by a man who still wishes he could undo it all, this is a rare and deeply personal look at the assassination that affected the entire world and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.922 HIL

Cahill, Thomas.

Summary: A history of the Dark Ages showing that as Europe was in an intellectual decline, Ireland became a haven for scholarship.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 941.501 CAH

Brokaw, Tom

Summary: Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves together inspiring stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American dream.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.927 Bro

Schaap, Jeremy.

Summary: In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four Olympic gold medals and single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. This is the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OWENS, JESSE SCH

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Summary: "For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM CLI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B CLINTON

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Summary: The former secretary of state relates her experiences as the first woman candidate nominated for president by a major party, discussing the sexism, criticism, and double standards she had to confront, and how she coped with a devastating loss.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM CLI

Goodavage, Maria

Summary: Goodavage delivers the incredible story of K-9 hero Lucca and the U.S. Marine handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.7044 GOO