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Summary: A tale inspired by the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing assassination attempt on the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet is told from the perspectives of an IRA bomb maker, a former star athlete-turned-hotel manager, and the manager's teenage daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEECarroll, Rory
Summary: "A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 CARO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within inches of his heart. His recovery was nothing short of remarkable -- or so it seemed. But Reagan was grievously injured, forcing him to encounter a challenge that few men ever face. Could he silently overcome his traumatic experience while at the same time carrying out the duties of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 ORECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.9270 ORESummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESHaley, Nikki
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, Nikki Haley's sharply intimate and inspirational book celebrates the world's most iconic women leaders. "If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." --Margaret Thatcher. In the spirit of Thatcher's quote, Ambassador Nikki R. Haley offers inspiring examples of women who worked against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.082 HALWilber, Del Quentin.
Summary: A minute-by-minute account of the 1981 assassination attempt on the fortieth president reveals how close he came to dying, in a report that pays tribute to the individuals who saved his life and oversaw national security throughout the crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: "The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.086 BAUMeade, Glenn.
Summary: On hearing the Soviet Union's dictator, Joseph Stalin, is preparing a nuclear strike against America, the U.S. parachutes two agents--Alex and Anna--to assassinate him. When the U.S. learns the Russians have discovered the plot, a man is sent to kill the agents, but with the help of a renegade Soviet general, Alex and Anna outwit everyone and penetrate the Kremlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MEAGregory, Philippa
Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREIggulden, Conn.
Summary: Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALO'Reilly, Bill.
Summary: Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within inches of his heart. His recovery was nothing short of remarkable -- or so it seemed. But Reagan was grievously injured, forcing him to encounter a challenge that few men ever face. Could he silently overcome his traumatic experience while at the same time carrying out the duties of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.927 O'RECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.927 O'Reilly 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.927 OREWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: "In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publisher 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WINPaul, Gill
Summary: New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAUWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: "A series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction WinspearRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSMeltzer, Brad
Summary: "Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier, in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a pro-Southern secret society that didn't want an antislavery president in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.7092 MELJurmain, Suzanne
Summary: "In February 1861 newly elected President Abraham Lincoln set out on a triumphant 2,000 mile cross-country railroad trip that would take him to his inauguration in Washington, D.C. At the same time, a band of fanatic southern Confederate sympathizers decided to stop Lincoln from reaching Washington and taking office. Furious because the new president's desire to end slavery threatened their way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Jacket, an imprint of Little Bee Books 2021
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Summary: In their long journey from San Francisco to Lusk, Wyoming, in 1889, David (Siu-Long) Wong and his parents have encountered terrible prejudice because they are Chinese immigrants; but here they are given a job at John Bell Hatcher's paleontological excavation digging up dinosaur bones, including an eight-foot long Triceratops skull, and David becomes fascinated by dinosaurs and resolves to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLLawson, Michael
Summary: Following an assassination attempt that wounds the president and kills the president's closest friend, General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who had warned the Secret Service about the attack, initiates an investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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Summary: In an attempt to regain the upper hand for Germany in the fall of 1944, famed commando Otto Skorzeny plots to have 2,000 English-speaking soldiers infiltrate and compromise Allied lines, while a smaller band of highly skilled commandos embark an a more sinister mission with history-changing potential. -- TitleSource III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FROForsyth, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000