Spanish Peaks Library District

"Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States." "One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician...

Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War. Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg's biography was originally published as a monumental, six-volume study....

"For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists,...

Eleanor Roosevelt chronicles the years she spent with her husband, former president Franklin Roosevelt, focusing on their years in the White House and her husband's life, character, and objectives.

In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties...

''Biography written by sixty-five authors.''-foreword

They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former Presidents are framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents. The two squabbling ploitical foes plunge into a desparate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.

""Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces the vice president to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--

Describes the life of the fifth president of the United States, with an emphasis on his youth in Virginia.

The former first lady reveals her influence in the Reagan administration and her relationships with her husband and children.