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Environmentalists from our First Nations / by Schilling, Vincent.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125) and Internet addresses.Profiles men and women who are passionate about protecting the environment, a priority that is at the heart of many First Nations cultures.LSC
Subjects: Environmentalists; Environmentalists; Native activists; Indian activists; First Nations activists; Indigenous activists;
© c2011., Second Story Press,

Surrender / by Johnston, Joan,1948-;
A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Women air pilots; Smokejumpers; Airplane crash survival; Man-woman relationships;

Basketball's greatest stars / by Grange, Michael.;
Profiles of the very best NBA players and a great history of the game. --Publisher.
Subjects: National Basketball Association; National Basketball Association; Basketball players;

Hidden figures [videorecording] / by Costner, Kevin,actor.; Henson, Taraji P,actor.; Melfi, Theodore,film director.; Monáe, Janelle,actor.; Spencer, Octavia,actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.;
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge.As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some language.DVD, widescreen (2.39:1); Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; African American mathematicians; African American women; Female friendship; Space race; Women mathematicians;
For private home use only.

The fifth assassin / by Meltzer, Brad.;
Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
Subjects: Political fiction.; Suspense fiction.; United States. National Archives and Records Administration; Archivists; Assassins; Clergy; Presidents;
© 2013., Grand Central Publishing,

Father night / by Lustbader, Eric.; Lustbader, Eric Van.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Children of presidents; International relations; National security;
© c2012., Forge,

Return to the Moon. by J. Cohen, Douglas,film director.; C. Tarantino, Louis,film director.; Sechler, Craig,actor.; Curiosity Stream (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Craig SechlerOriginally produced by Curiosity Stream in 2018.The Apollo equipment has sat abandoned on the lunar surface for over 40 years. Now there is a renewed excitement and drive to return to the moon. This time, not to just plant a flag, but to colonize. How would we accomplish this? And why would we do it?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Astronomy.; Documentary films.; Physics.; History.; Colonization.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.; Astrophysics.; Solar system.;

Leave no trace / by Landau, A. J.,author.;
"In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is awakened by his boss with that news and sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things -- one, that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and two, that threats of a second terrorism attack are already being called into the media. While barred from the meetings of the Joint Task Force for his lack of security clearance, Walker finds a young boy among the survivors with a critical piece of information -- a video linking the attackers to the assault. As a radical domestic terrorist group, led by a shadowy figure known only as Jeremiah, threatens further attacks against America's cultural symbols, powerful forces within the government are misleading the investigation to further their own radical agenda"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; United States. National Park Service; Terrorism; Conspiracy;

Listen to the Universe. by NASA (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by NASA in 2024.NASA is famous for beautiful space images, but did you know you can listen to them? Go behind the scenes with the team that creates “sonifications,” translations of data into sound, and learn how meaningful they are to people who are blind or low-vision.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Computer science.; Documentary films.; Technological innovations.; Disabilities.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.; Outer space.; Universe.;

The room where it happened : a White House memoir / by Bolton, John R.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."John Bolton served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump for 519 days. A seasoned public servant who had previously worked for Presidents Reagan, Bush #41, and Bush #43, Bolton brought to the administration thirty years of experience in international issues and a reputation for tough, blunt talk. In his memoir, he offers a substantive and factual account of his time in the room where it happened."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Bolton, John R.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; National Security Council (U.S.); United States. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.;

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