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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention--private and public--that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a partnership that was both supportive and daring--a partnership that they created according to their own ambitions and needs.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joe Biden grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children. His parents always encouraged him and his siblings to be independent and strong. The family moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where at twenty-nine, Biden was one of the youngest United States Senators ever elected. This is his story"--
Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
143 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama, discussing the birth date, political party, and other facts about each leader, and includes a section about famous first ladies.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East -- the dreaded Fatah. But one man, surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath, doesn't believe the Fatah is responsible for the attack. Driven by his professional code...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggressive challenge from the Chinese government. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer and a storm tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese hands. It seems that President Zhao is determined to limit Ryan's choices in the upcoming G20 negotiations. But there are hints that there's even more going on behind the scenes....
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain -- in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos. Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before...
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 3
Language
English
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Description
America's worst nightmare has just become a brutal reality. The most unlikely terrorist enemy of all now holds a knife against the country's throat. With both diplomatic and conventional military options swept from the table, the president of the United States calls upon America's only hope, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath. With the fragile peace between the world's nations shattered, Harvath must unravel a brilliantly orchestrated,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When Michael Osbourne of the CIA is called in to investigate the terrorist bombing of an airliner off the coast of Long Island, there is one relevant clue that drives him: a body found in the water near the crash site with three bullet holes in its face. Osbourne recognizes the deadly markings as the work of a world-class assassin, a man whose very existence has never been proven because the only people ever to have seen him became his victims. And...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Barbara A. Res worked directly with Donald Trump for eighteen years on some of his biggest projects and had nearly unlimited access to him. Trump selected Res to be in charge of construction of Trump Tower, his greatest success as a developer. In this insider's look at how the ambitious real estate developer became teh most divisive president in recent U.S. history. Res takes us into closed-door meetings, boardrooms, limo rides, and helicopter flights...
51) Presidents
Author
Series
Eyewitness books volume 109
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. (mostly col.) ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eyewitness Presidents is an updated edition of DK's classic look at America s presidents in addition to the CD, wall chart, and extra 8 pages, the book will be updated to include information about the winner of the 2008 election, Barack Obama.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. While her public image is of an aloof woman floating above the political gamesmanship of Washington, behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump's inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential adviser. Throughout...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The lives of the presidents are served up as fact-filled and fanciful poems that will make you laugh, cringe, and gasp with amazement.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating an accord with Adolf Hitler and accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxvi, 481 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After popularizing Gonzo journalism with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson turned his drug-fueled wit and savage insight to the race for President. With On the Campaign Trail '72, Thompson deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of George McGovern and Richard Nixon, laying bare a political process that is both seductive and utterly repellent.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As enemies plan an unprecedented attack on American soil, Washington is gripped by uncertainty and fear as rumors spread of a traitor in the cabinet and the president himself comes under suspicion, before he goes missing. The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a US President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so?
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and political career of George Washington from his childhood in Virginia, through his role in the American Revolution, to his years as President.
Author
Publisher
Garrett Educational Corp
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
vii, 119 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the seventh President describing his frontier childhood, education, career as a soldier and politician, and his new approach to the presidency.
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