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-- Eleven twenty-two sixty-three2011., Adults, Scribner Call No: FIC KIN Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane, and insanely possible, mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
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2012., Adult Call No: HIST 973.922 092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Recounts in gripping detail the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
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c1963., 4.8; Ages 3-6, Random House Call No: J BIO 973.922 Edition: Rev. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Bullseye biographySummary Note: Highlights the early years, family relationships, and accomplishments of our thirty-fifth president.
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c1991., Ages 4-8, Holiday House Call No: J BIO 973.922 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Picture book biographySummary Note: Depicts the life and career of John F. Kennedy.
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[c1967]., Little, Brown Call No: BIOG 913 Edition: Rev. ed. with a new introduction and epilogue. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis.2024., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC SHA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the bestselling author comes the story of rising conflict between the super-powers that gripped the world, a global war that almost happened: The Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. Extensively researched and vividly imagined, The Shadow of War brings to life the many threads that lead to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962. Told from a multitude of perspectives and voices, from the Russian engineer attempting the near impossible task of building the missile launch facilities in Cuba, to the U.S. Navy commanders who ships are sent to "quarantine" Cuba, to the Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, desperately trying to maintain a challenging balancing act between the conflicting demands of various powerful forces, to the brothers Kennedy (Bobby and JFK) who can't allow Russia to land nuclear missiles in Cuba, or to appear weak in confronting Khrushchev, but keenly understand how close they are dancing to the edge of war. Shaara brings to life all the action and actors, famous and little known, that embodied a war that almost happened, the Cuban Missile Crisis"--
