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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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 SLASummary: National Geographic follows Pete Souza, the President's photographer inside the Obama White House, aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union, and into the heart of the West Wing. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what it's like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. Features intimate interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESmith, 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 SMIBusby, Cylin
Summary: Told from the viewpoint of the First Cat of the White House, this clever picture book takes readers on a tour of this historic residence where they will find out who really runs things around there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUSMesnier, 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 MESRush, Andre
Summary: "What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents? Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous twenty-four-inch biceps went viral. However, his journey to that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 RUSSummary: 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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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALOsborne, 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 OSBCat in the Hat
Summary: An Election Day reader finds the Cat in the Hat outlining laugh-out-loud campaign promises if he is elected president, including giving the Oval Office a more pronounced shape, replanting the Rose Garden with Seussian shrubbery and painting smiles on the somber portraits of historical leaders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATHolland, 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 HOLQuirk, Matthew
Summary: In this electrifying thriller from the author of Red Warning and The Night Agent, an attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top-secret government facility buried deep underground--but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them. Assume the worst. Code Black. The day that every secret service agent trains for has arrived. The White House...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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 Nonfiction, Call number: J America 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: Go inside and meet the dedicated men and women who are sworn to protect the President at any cost. Get an agent's-eye view of the daily challenges faced through the decades by Secret Service veterans, from keeping tabs on the president's children to dealing with the privacy of the First Family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: Follow the drama when the government is temporarily passed from a Democratic administration to the Republican Speaker of the House, as President Bartlet copes with the kidnapping of his youngest daughter Zoey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESHines, Gary.
Summary: Young Tad Lincoln is excited about the new national holiday until he learns that the cook plans to serve Jack the turkey as the main course for Thanksgiving dinner.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HINTatum, Channing
Summary: While John Cale, a Capitol Policeman, is taking his daughter on a tour of the White House it is taken over by a paramilitary group, and it is up to John to save the president and his country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHIWhitcomb, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 WHISummary: Follows the adventures of a low-ranking cabinet member when he becomes President of the United States after the sitting president and other cabinet members are killed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DESSummary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESButler, Gerard
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 Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie OlympusCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, 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 Adult 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