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Summary: "The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.096 DAUBuchanan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: The conservative political thinker forecasts America's social and cultural collapse as he describes how current policies will cause a permanent loss of American sovereignty and independence and the impact of substituting ideology for true faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.93 BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 BUCBuchanan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: Buchanan's latest polemic exposes the risks America faces today and what those dangers will mean for the country's future. He warns against not only the dangers that the country faces under Obama, but also the risk of sliding into irrelevancy that the Republican party faces if it chooses to forget its core values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 BUCLewis, J. Patrick
Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWCarr, Patrick J.
Contents: Introduction: The heartland and the rural youth exodus -- The achievers -- The stayers -- The seekers -- The returners -- Conclusion: What can be done to save small towns?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 CARBuchanan, Patrick J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BUCCharles, Patrick J.
Summary: "This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar Patrick J. Charles shows, what the right to arms means to Americans, as well as what it legally protects, has changed drastically since its first appearance in the 1689 Declaration of Rights. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 CHAMichaels, Patrick J.
Contents: A global warming science primer -- Our changing climate history -- Hurricane warning! -- Sea-level rise and the great unfreezing world -- Extreme climate : floods, fires, and droughts -- Climate of death and the death of our climate -- Pervasive bias and climate extremism -- Balancing act : a modest proposal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cato Institute 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 MICO'Rourke, P. J.
Summary: "No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Or, as celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P. J. O'Rourke put it in his endorsement of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 OROO'Rourke, P. J.
Summary: An upbeat dissemination of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" condenses and illuminates the key points of the original works while discussing how their messages remain relevant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.153 OROKenyon, J P
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.06 KENWilliams, Patricia J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.0873 WILCutright, Patricia J.
Summary: "Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 973 CUTMacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1968
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.341 MacLeWhite, Stephen A.
Contents: v. 1. A-G -- v. 2. H-Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton 1999
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 WHI VOL 1Call number: R-GEN 929.371 WHI VOL 2
Taylor, A. J. P. (Alan John Percivale)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 TAYPeebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 PEEBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIREpstein, Bette Marie
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Jersey Dept. of State, Division of Archives and Records Management 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 016.929 GUINeubecker, Ottfried
Summary: The origins of heraldry and the history of heraldic symbols and coats of arms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.6 NEUMcWhorter, Lucullus Virgil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Republican Publishing Co. 1915
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 MCW1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 McWho
Summary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by best-selling author Alexander Chee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022