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241) It shouldn't be this hard to serve your country: our broken government and the plight of veterans
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House."--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs millions of Americans. It owns and operates more real estate, and spends more money, than any other entity. It manages the world's largest and most complex information...
243) Deadlock
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A young wife is forced to confront a decades-old deadly secret when a medium connects her to her dead grandfather. A vicious psychopath wants ultimate revenge against Savich, but first, she wants to destroy what he loves most-his family. A series of three red boxes are delivered personally to Savich at the Hoover Building, each one containing puzzle pieces of a town only FBI agent Pippa Cinelli recognizes. Savich sends in Cinelli to investigate undercover...
244) Nothing to hide
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With a background in psychology, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is good at getting into the heads of killers and victims both. Still, her latest case is leaving her stumped. A third body has turned up in San Antonio--and it bears the same unique and troubling M.O. as the first two. The killer is clearly trying to send a message. But what is it--and to whom? All roads keep leading Lucy down a dead end. . . The victims are all married men who led honest lives...
245) I, Daniel Blake
Series
Criterion collection volume 906
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care and benefits system to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
247) Till death
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been ten years since Sasha Keaton left her West Virginia hometown...since she escaped the twisted serial killer known as the Groom. Returning to help run her family inn means being whole again, except for one missing piece. The piece that falls into place when Sasha's threatened--and FBI agent Cole Landis vows to protect her the way he couldn't a decade ago. First one woman disappears; then another, and all the while, disturbing calling cards...
249) Every day I fight
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Shortly before he passed away, on January 4, 2015, Stuart Scott completed work on this memoir. It was both a labor of love and a love letter to life itself. Not only did Stuart relate his personal story -- his childhood in North Carolina, his supportive family, his athletic escapades, his on-the-job training as a fledgling sportscaster, his being hired and eventual triumphs at ESPN -- he shared his intimate struggles to keep his story going. Struck...
Author
Language
English
Description
"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
251) The silent sisters
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
After a harrowing escape from Russian agents on his last mission, Charles Jenkins thinks he's finally done with the spy game. But then the final two of the seven sisters--American assets who have been deep undercover in Russia for decades--cut off all communication with their handlers. Are they in hiding after detecting surveillance? Or have they turned and become double agents? It's Jenkins's duty to find out, but he's been added to a Russian kill...
252) Rival's break
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emma Sharpe is recovering from a shattering loss while her husband, Colin Donovan, is deep into his latest undercover mission. So they're grateful to enjoy a peaceful autumn weekend together on the southern Maine coast to celebrate Colin's brother Andy's wedding. But the peace is short-lived when Kevin Donovan, a marine patrol officer, receives a call to check on suspected food poisoning at a party aboard a yacht. Colin decides to tag along. He is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class...
254) Shadow target
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jake Keller must elude a killer targeting CIA field officers while trying to find out if someone inside the Agency is feeding his every move to the very people who want him dead.
"Someone is assassinating CIA field officers and Jake Keller's name is next on the list in the latest thrilling novel from the author Publishers Weekly calls "a fresh voice in the crowded spy-thriller field." Jake doesn't know who is trying to kill him and he doesn't know...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Young readers edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's...
256) The lost girls
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her mentor, Special Agent Noah Armstrong, investigate a black market baby ring with ties to human trafficking, and Lucy's fiancé faces a difficult choice when the son he never knew he had goes missing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a Secret Service agent, Nick Averose spent a decade protecting the most powerful men and women in America and developed a unique gift: the ability to think like an assassin. Now, he uses that skill in a little-known but crucial job. As a 'red teamer', he poses as a threat, testing the security around our highest officials to find vulnerabilities--before our enemies can. He is a mock killer, capable of slipping past even the best defenses. His...
258) Dead mountain
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
259) Red widow: a novel
Author
Series
Red widow volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating spy thriller about two women CIA agents who become intertwined around a threat to the Russia Division--one that's coming from inside the agency"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida -- desde los proyectos del Bronx hasta la corte federal -- en una inspiradora celebración de su extraordinaria determinación y del poder de creer en uno mismo.
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