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Summary: Douglas Brinkley's Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision. Now Brinkley turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader--Theodore's distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt--chronicling his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, ROSA BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY BRIBrunt, Douglas
Summary: September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 609.2 BRULondon, Douglas
Summary: "A revealing CIA memoir from a 34-year veteran of the agency who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 -- full of rich details and sharp assessments -- providing an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spycraft, how the CIA has developed, and how it must continue to evolve"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 LONBrinkley, Douglas
Summary: "Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 BRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 BRIFarah, Douglas.
Summary: What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.133 FARBrinkley, Douglas
Summary: As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 BRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.40973 BRIPerry, Douglas
Summary: A portrait of the legendary leader of the Untouchables traces his years after his famous confrontation with Al Capone, documenting his efforts to end corruption in Cleveland and his achievements throughout the Torso Murderer case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NESS, ELIOT PERSmith, Douglas
Summary: Examines the fate of two Russian aristocratic families in a detailed account of the Bolshevik Revolution's effect on the upper class, discussing the relentless lootings, harrowing escapes, humbling exile and imprisonment, and summary executions that tookplace during this violent time of transition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.52 SMIBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: A biography of the first president to be sworn into office as a result of his predecessor's resignation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, GERALD BRIBrinkley, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 959.7043 BRIDouglas, Cameron
Summary: Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. But by the age of 32 he had become a drug addict, an armed robber, and-- after a DEA drug bust-- a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he began to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLAS, CAMERON DOUSmith, Douglas
Summary: "On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure. A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B RASPUTIN SMIWolk, Douglas
Summary: "The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the past 60 years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale. The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, Douglas Wolk notes, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5973 WOLDouglas, Gabby.
Summary: The Olympic gold medalist shares the story of her life and how her faith allowed her to persevere and reach her dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLAS, GABBY DOUWhynott, Douglas
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636 WHYCasamer, Douglas M.
Summary: The Michigan 22nd Infantry regiment was instrumental in making the outcome of the Civil War a Union victory. Included is a study of the 1,610 men who fought in this regiment. Fought in and around the following battles; Chickamauga; Lookout Mountain; Chattanooga; Lost Mountain; Kennesaw Mountain; Chattahoochee River; Peach Tree Creek; Jonesboro; Atlanta. Formed at Pontiac, Michigan and mustered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casamer Publishing 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R GEN 973.7474 CASEgerton, Douglas R
Summary: Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 EGEMastriano, Douglas V.
Summary: Alvin C. York (1887--1964) -- devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I -- is one of America's most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Cooper's Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture of 132 German soldiers on October 8, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne region of France -- a deed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B YORK MASStarr, Douglas P.
Summary: With high drama and stunning detail, relates the infamous crime and punishment of French serial killer Joseph Vacher, interweaving the story of how Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, Emile Fourquet and colleagues developed forensic science as we know it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 STADouglas, John E.
Summary: A legendary FBI criminal profiler presents a case that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DOUPreston, Douglas J
Summary: Recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.8 PRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.85 PREPreston, Douglas J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992