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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The...
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Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
In the early days of his career, Jack Ryan accepts a first assignment as freelance analyst under James Greer of the CIA and faces a mission involving a high-level Soviet defector who has reported a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When there is an assassination attempt on US President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the president. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm, and...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When there is an assassination attempt on US President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the president. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm, and...
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
8 CDs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On March 30, 1981, President Reagan narrowly escaped death after he was cut down by a sniper's bullet. However, few really knew how close the president came to dying. Here, award-winning journalist Del Quentin Wilber chronicles the assassination attempt, retracing the footsteps of those who were responsible for saving President Reagan's life as well as those who were involved in the shooter's apprehension.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xii, 397 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA's attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
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The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.