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Thorndike Press large print laugh linesBruns, Roger.
Summary: Collects speeches, memos, and other documents written for the possibility of failure in wars and foreign relations throughout American history, left unsaid and unpublished due to turn of events and sudden changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000
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Summary: A collection of true spy stories from throughout the history of the United States, discussing personalities, missions, traitors, technological advances, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.73 JANArmstrong, Jennifer
Summary: One hundred brief stories about real people and occurences in American history, arranged in chronological order by year from 1565 to 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of everyday people, rather than in accounts of the famous...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.09 ROOVowell, Sarah
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 VOWVowell, Sarah
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 VOWSummary: More than 450 accounts of the myriad customs, beliefs, legends, languages, adventures, and traditions that helped form America, illustrated with over 700 photographs, paintings, and engravings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DISRowe, Mike
Summary: "Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-read"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain RoweKitfield, James
Summary: "Discover the amazing stories of sacrifice and courage from twenty-two soldiers who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. In the Company of Heroes features in-depth narrative profiles of the twenty-two post-9/11 Medal of Honorrecipients who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book focuses on the stories of these extraordinary individuals, expressed in their own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KITWill, George F.
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will, his ninth collection of reflections on our culture, examining the many ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, andsocial venues. George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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Summary: "A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Washington Post, and Time magazine, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport over four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.0973 CALPiper, Karen Lynnea
Summary: "A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles. The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PIPER, KAREN PIPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PIPER PIPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PiperBeck, Glenn
Summary: History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 BECJones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice)
Summary: "A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win.""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 JONGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Presents a companion volume to The History Channel's documentary which recounts the events of ten pivotal days that changed the course of American history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 GILAxelrod, Alan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AZEGeist, William.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9240 GEILankford, Andrea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 LANSummary: The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Presents stories from ten years of the innovative oral history project, where everyday people sit down together to ask life's important questions and share stories from their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LISSummary: From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps--the largest oral history project in the nation's history--presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans from all ages,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 ISABrooks, Rosa
Summary: A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security. --Publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016