Page, Susan
Summary: Former First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures. Here Page tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies-- and an entire political era. As first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, Barbara Bush became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist, invested herself deeply in expanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Bush 2019Steinmetz, Greg
Summary: "This is a spry biography of Gilded Age financier Jay Gould, who pioneered the business model of the Wall Street shark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GouldToler, Pamela D.
Summary: "From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, Women Warrior reclaims lost stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor, debunking the pervasive claim that women do not, and should not, fight"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 Toler 2019Kushner, Jared
Summary: "Few White House advisors have had such an expansive portfolio or constant access to the president. From his office next to Trump, senior adviser Jared Kushner operated quietly behind the scenes, preferring to leave the turf wars and television sparring to others. Now, Kushner finally tells his story--a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KushnerAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: The author presents a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 AdichieCallahan, Maureen
Summary: "A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PD Most of us have never heard of Israel Keyes. But he is one of the most ambitious, meticulous serial killers of modern time. The FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 Callahan 2019Chambers, Cassie
Summary: "Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Chambers 2020Eizenstat, Stuart
Summary: "The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments--drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes. Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.926 Eizen 2018Gish, Lillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1969
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1 available in Bay Theatre Collection, Call number: BAY THEATRE 921 GISHLand, Stephanie
Summary: Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Land 2019McCubbin, Lisa
Summary: "An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer is the inspiring story of an ordinary Midwestern girl thrust onto the world stage and into the White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Ford 2018Nelson, S. D.
Summary: A simple biography of Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk, from his childhood vision which shaped his life through his battles with the whites and his travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Includes quotes from Black Elk Speaks and historical photos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 BlackPage, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler's brain is different. Unlike his friends, he has a hard time paying attention in class. He acts out in goofy, over-the-top ways. Sometimes, he even does dangerous things--like cut up a bus seat with a pocketknife or hang out of an attic window. To the adults in his life, Tyler seems like a troublemaker. But he knows that he's not. Tyler is curious and creative. He's the best artist in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 741.5 PageShapiro, Dani
Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Shapiro 2019Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez
Summary: "With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his fathers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Castillo 2020Chernow, Ron
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Grant 2017Gerald, Casey
Summary: "Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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Summary: "In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers--a cover for her spying work--Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served--the US, France, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BakerMcCullough, David G.
Summary: "Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 McCullough 2019Spitz, Bob
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational. More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's REAGAN stands fair to be the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Reagan 2018Catton, Bruce
Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MC 917.74 CatGilliam, Dorothy Butler
Summary: Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street, Hachette Book Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.92 Gilliam 2019Hodges, Andrew.
Summary: A gripping story of mathematics, science, computing, war history, cryptography, and homosexual persecution and liberation. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.92 HodgesKuipers, Dean
Summary: "For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019