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Stratton, Richard (Richard H.)

Summary: "The Hollywood Ending of an Adrenaline-Filled and, By Turns, Harrowing and Funny Odyssey of Crime and Redemption in America's War on Drugs Smuggler's Blues, the first book in Richard Stratton's memoir of his criminal career, detailed his years as a kingpin in the Hippie Mafia. Kingpin, the second book, traced his eight-year journey through the criminal justice system, through two federal trials...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRATTON, RICHARD STR

Taylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)

Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAY

Reel, Monte

Summary: In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.127 REE

Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Swaby, Rachel

Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWA

Summary: Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be in prison.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OUR

Erickson, Vernon D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3775 BIR

Summary: "A selection of transcribed audio recordings from 1973 covers Nixon and Kissinger's private knowledge of flaws in the 1973 Vietnam peace agreement and the early warnings about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East,"--Novelist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 BRI

Morley, Jefferson

Summary: "For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 MOR

Contents: Have guitar will travel (Scotty Moore Trio) -- Little Queenie (Chuck Berry) -- Lucille (Little Richard) -- Diddley Daddy (Bo Diddley) -- First time I met the blues (Buddy Guy) -- I'm gonna murder my baby (Pat Hare) -- Rollin' stone (Muddy Waters) -- Bright lights big city (Jimmy Reed) -- Poison ivy (The Coasters) -- Blue Monday (Fats Domino) -- Confessin' the blues (Jay McShann) -- All I have...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJ

Haldeman, H. R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 HAL

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Summary: Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC HAD

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: YA FIC HAD

Budd, Anne Lockwood Dallas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio Genealogical Society 1974

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3771 Budd,

Richards, Keith

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 RIC

Dougherty, Nancy

Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYDRICH, REINHARD DOU

Summary: The true-life story of physicist Richard Feynman, who worked on the first atomic bomb, and his wife Arline who suffered from tuberculosis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Pictures 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INF

Summary: In 1930's Britain, in the wake of a bloody civil war, the younger brother of the new King sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the throne for himself. Updated version of Shakespeare's tale.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RIC

Woodward, Bob

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle, examining the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 WOO

Summary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELV

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELV

Summary: "The famous--and infamous--Nixon White House tapes that reveal for the first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in his own words. [His] voice-activated taping system captured every word spoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations in the White House, and at Camp David--3,700 hours of recordings between 1971 and 1973. Yet less than 5 percent of those...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 NIX

Fulsom, Don

Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 FUL

Krogh, Egil

Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KRO

Drew, Elizabeth

Summary: A rerelease of the 1975 account detailing the extraordinary upheaval of the Watergate months exposes the corruption, ethics, and humanity of period Washington and is updated with a new introduction that places the scandal in a present-day context.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 DRE

Grimes, Martha.

Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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