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Summary: Shares the story of how George Washington had a home built for the future presidents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 SLASmith, Charles R.
Summary: Constructed brick by brick, the White House was created by human hands, many of them slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of this country, in the story of how the official residence and principal workplace of the United States presidents was built.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.302 SMISummary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 47Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBMesnier, Roland
Summary: In this memoir and cookbook, Roland Mesnier, executive pastry chef to five presidents, tells the story behind each of the holiday gingerbread houses he created for display in the White House State Dining Room. Chef Mesnier also provides step-by-step instructions and templates for constructing and decorating a gingerbread house in the home kitchen. During the holidays, thousands of guests are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: White House Historical Association 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5092 MESHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 306.3 HOLFirestone, Mary.
Summary: Keneesha, a White House Secret Service agent, gives a brief history of the White House and describes the various functions held there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2007
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 975.3 FirestonePalmer, Michael
Summary: The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the president's son Cam Hilliard, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss the troubles as teen angst. But Secret Service agent Karen Ray, whose job is to guard the president's family with her life, is convinced Cam's issues are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PALSummary: Headed by President Josiah Bartlet, demonstrates that office politics are the same everywhere; things just have greater repercussions when your office happens to be the White House. Stories surround the President; his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, recovering boozehound Leo McGarry, who sacrifices his marriage to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESMonkman, Betty C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: White House Historical Association 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 975.3 MONSummary: Follow the re-election of President Bartlet to his second term and some crises both during and after the election in this 22-episode fourth season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESBarnes, Peter W.
Summary: The rooms and furnishings of the White House are featured through the story of Woodrow G. Washingtail, a mouse who is elected President of the United Mice of America and moves into the historic mansion along with the people's president.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VSP Books 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BARBauer, Stephen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAUBerman, Lea
Summary: "A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message-- everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 BEROsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBSummary: Provides a documentary-style look behind the scenes at White House operations and examines the history of the president's home. Featured are portions of a tour conducted by First Lady Laura Bush, interviews with White House staff and conversations with historians about the significance of the residence, furnishings, and rooms.--Program description.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Cable Satellite Corp. 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WHISummary: Drama revolves around the President, Josiah Bartlet, and his staff at the White House, including his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, and recovering boozehound Leo McGarry who sacrifices his marriage to his career. Among the global crises Bartlet faces are a nuclear showdown between India and Pakistan, an American plane...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The 22-episode third season whose storylines include the investigation into the alleged cover-up of President Barlet's illness, the early bid for a second term and confrontations with global terrorism. Reel- and real-life events profoundly intersect in the historic Isaac and Ishmael episode made in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. And must-see bonus features include a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2004
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Summary: When the White House is captured by terrorists and the President kidnapped, it is up to a disgraced former Presidental guard to save the President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE OLYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OLYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD OLYEsposito, Joseph A.
Summary: In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners -- along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers -- at a famed White House dinner. Among the guests were J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was officially welcomed back to Washington after a stint in the political wilderness; Linus Pauling, who had picketed the White House that very afternoon;...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England 2018
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 ESPMoeller, John.
Summary: This book provides an insiders view of what it is like to dine at the White House and describes Chef Moeller's most memorable moments cooking for three First Families. It includes over 100 recipes for one-of-a-kind dishes featuring his trademark use of fresh, seasonal ingredients inspired by his classical French training with an American twist. Useful chef notes help adapt fine French cooking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Lifestyle Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.5 MOEBrower, Kate Andersen.
Summary: A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2015
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Lewis, J. Patrick.
Summary: Dog travels the world looking for the perfect place to live, meeting dogs of many breeds before finally returning to Washington, D.C., where he learns of a special family seeking a pet to live in their big, white house.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2009