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- Fight : inside the wildest battle for the White House / by Allen, Jonathan(Jonathan J. M.),author.; Parnes, Amie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.It was the election America dreaded, a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning contest in American history. The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin's bullet, and a vice president, unexpectedly thrust into the arena, to mount an unprecedented 107-day campaign to lead the free world. Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form -- the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own. Bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes give readers their first graphic view of the characters, their motivations, and their innermost thoughts as they battled to claim the ultimate prize and define a political era. Based on real-time interviews with more than 150 insiders -- from the Trump, Harris, and Biden inner circles, as well as party leaders and operatives -- Fight delivers the vivid and stunning tale of an election unlike any other. In the end, Trump overcame voters' concerns about his personal flaws by tapping into a deep vein of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country. At the same time, Democrats struggled to connect with an electorate that felt gaslit by Biden's insistence that he had delivered economic prosperity -- and his pledge to be a "bridge" president. He tore his party asunder, leaving destroyed personal relationships in his wake, as he clung to power. And when he gave it up, he kneecapped Harris by demanding unprecedented loyalty from her. Allen and Parnes provide readers with a skeleton key to the rooms where it all happened, revealing a story more shocking than previously reported.- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Harris, Kamala, 1964-; Political culture; Presidents;
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- Possess the air : love, heroism, and the battle for the soul of Mussolini's Rome / by Grescoe, Taras,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The inspiring true story of political resistance in Mussolini's Italy Plunging readers into Fascist Rome at the height of Mussolini's power, Possess the Air tells the story of three people who defied Italy's authoritarian despot by opposing the rising tide of populism and xenophobia. Two Canadian archeologists, Gilbert Bagnani and his wife Mary Stewart Houston, maddened the self-styled Caesar, determined to dispel his claims that Rome was-- and always would be-- rightful master of the Mediterranean, while poet and aviator Lauro de Bosis, firstborn of an Italian aristocrat and a New Englander, transformed himself into a modern Icarus, amazing the world as he risked his life in the skies bring the dictator down. An inspiring story of resistance, risk, and sacrifice, Taras Grescoe's portrait of heroes past is an essential biography for our time."--- Subjects: Biographies.; Bagnani, Gilbert, 1900-1985.; Bagnani, Stewart, 1903-1996.; De Bosis, Lauro, 1901-1931.; Anti-fascist movements; Political activists;
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- Ash's triple threat / by Whitehill, Simcha.;
LSC- Subjects: Pokémon (Fictitious characters); Battles;
- © c2011., Scholastic,
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- Conan the Barbarian. [graphic novel] / by Zub, Jim,author.; Canola, Jão,colourist.; Scharf, Jonas,illustrator.; Smith, Tyler(Letterer),letterer.; Starkings, Richard,letterer.;
Conan of Cimmeria is haunted by shadows, living nightmares connected to a mysterious eye symbol etched in black stone. The unspeakable evil foretold by Thulsa Doom looms over the Hyborian Age and every age connected to it ... and it will take more than a lone barbarian to stop its relentless march upon time, space, and sanity.Suggested for mature readers.- Subjects: Fantasy comics.; Graphic novels.; Conan (Fictitious character); Gods; Heroes;
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- My fight for Canadian healthcare : a thirty-year battle to put patients first / by Day, Brian,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."On July 15, 2022, the British Columbia Court of Appeal ruled that patients in BC were suffering, and many risked dying, as a result of delayed access to care. The ruling included a conclusion that the delays were caused by planned and deliberate government strategies to limit resources and capacity. Despite that, they upheld laws that cause patients to die. Their rationale was that allowing non-government options, which is something every other country on the planet allows, might negatively impact our existing, grossly underperforming, health system. Canada is currently ranked 10th out of 10 universal health systems in highly developed countries. The Appeal Court made its decision despite an admission that the trial data "represents real people, with real pain, a real setbacks, and real risk of dying prematurely" and that "waiting inherently carries the risk of death." This book traces a personal journey through a Canadian health system that has reached the point of imposing serious harm on patients. Governments have stubbornly adhered to principles developed over 60 years ago. Medicare was supposed to act as a safety net. Instead, it has become a trap in which patients are forced to suffer. Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Prize winner for literature, once stated: "Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth." While this book may not strike terror in those who have opposed me over the years, I hope it will at least promote guilt in the hearts of those who fought us in the courtroom, many of whom have benefitted from their own extensive use of private clinics, including ours"--- Subjects: Clinics; Health care reform; Medical care; Medical care; Right to health;
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- The outpost [videorecording] / by Bloom, Orlando,1977-actor.; Eastwood, Scott,1986-actor.; Johnson, Eric,1979-screenwriter.; Jones, Caleb Landry,actor.; Lurie, Rod,1962-film director.; Scipio, Jacob,actor.; Tamasy, Paul,screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Tapper, Jake.Outpost.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Jacob Scipio, Milo Gibson, Jack Kesy.Based on true events. A team of U.S. soldiers stationed at the deadliest outpost in Afghanistan is relentlessly attacked by an overwhelming force of Taliban insurgents. Their fight for survival is the ultimate display of American valor.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R; for war violence and grisly images, pervasive language, and sexual references.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; War films.; Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009; Soldiers; Taliban members;
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- Dominion : the history of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee / by Ackroyd, Peter,1949-author.;
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- The last queen : Elizabeth II's seventy year battle to save the House of Windsor / by Irving, Clive,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 349) and index.A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth and her family, this work explores how the Windsors have evolved and thrived as the modern world has changed around them.- Subjects: Biographies.; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-; Windsor, House of.; Monarchy; Queens;
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- 2034 : a novel of the next world war / by Ackerman, Elliot,author.; Stavridis, James,author.;
"From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic, geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 -- and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically out maneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and literary, human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters - Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians - as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid"--- Subjects: War fiction.; Naval battles; Cyberspace operations (Military science);
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- Dunkirk : retreat to victory / by Thompson, Julian,1934-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-324) and index.- Subjects: Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force; Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940;
- © 2008., Sidgwick & Jackson,
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