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Top Ten Reasons Samantha Madison is in Deep Trouble 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in school 9. Her little sister is a certified genius 8. She's in love with her big sister's boyfriend 7. She got caught selling celebrity portraits in school 6. And now she's being forced to take art classes 5. She's just saved the president of the United States from an assassination attempt 4. So the... (more)

Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel

Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel

by Meg Cabot

Top ten things Samantha Madison isn't ready for: 10. Spending Thanksgiving at Camp David 9. With her boyfriend, the president's son 8. Who appears to want to take their relationship to the Next Level 7. Which Sam inadvertently and shockingly announces live on MTV 6. While appearing to support the president's dubious policies on families, morals, and yes, sex 5. Juggling her new after-school job at... (more)

The First Patient

by Michael Palmer

From the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling author comes a high-concept, high-octane thriller at the crossroads of presidential politics and cutting-edge medicine. . . . 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... (more)

The First Counsel

by Brad Meltzer

Aficionados of the hit TV show The West Wing who are sufferingthrough holiday reruns will jump right into Brad Meltzer's third novel (afterThe Tenth Justice and Dead Even), which takes readers into theWhite House office of the president's own law firm and introduces a firstdaughter whose complex psychological problems jump-start this fast-pacedthriller. Michael Garrick loves his job as deputy counsel, but when he... (more)

The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home

The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home

by Margaret Truman

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized. In this splendid blend of the personal and historic, Margaret Truman offers an... (more)

State of the Onion

by Julie A. Hyzy

Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top. Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the world. She's hell-bent on earning her dream job, Executive Chef. There's just one thing: her nemesis is vying for... (more)

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency

"Pulling the veil off a highly visible yet tight-lipped federal agency, scholar of governmental secrecy and political violence Philip H. Melanson has created the first definitive portrait of the Secret Service. From its 1865 inception as the nation's police against counterfeiting to the official assignment of protecting the president to the post 9/11 challenges of protecting the targets of terrorists, Melanson and... (more)

First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover

First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover

by Mitali Perkins

In First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover , Sameera showed the United States it was ready for a Pakistani-born First Daughter. With her brains and bravado,White House. Fabulous! Right? Actually, it's no fairy tale. The Secret Service and the paparazzi follow Sameera everywhere. She misses her friends and even her school back home. So Sameera decides to escape. Will she be able to pull it off, or will her... (more)

Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation

Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation

by Margaret L. Davis

In December 1962, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted. The fragile icon traveled like a head of state, with armed guards and military surveillance, in a temperature-controlled vault. Masterminding the entire show was First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who tirelessly campaigned to persuade National Gallery Director John Walker, French... (more)

Living History

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student... (more)

Air Force One: The Aircraft that Shaped the Modern Presidency

Air Force One: The Aircraft that Shaped the Modern Presidency

by Von Hardesty

For history fans, political junkies and aviation buffs. Foreword by CBSs Bob Schieffer.Air Force One: The Aircraft that Shaped the Modern Presidency is the story of the planes, the Presidents, their staff and, their many trips across the nation and around the globe. But it's also more than thatit is a vehicle for better understanding the activities and dealings of each presidential administration in the second... (more)

All the Presidents' Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House, A Memoir

All the Presidents' Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House, A Memoir

by Roland Mesnier

This extraordinary success-story-told by the hero himself-of a young French pastry chef who climbed his way to the top, embodies the great American dream. After working at the Savoy in London, the George V in Paris, the Princess in Bermuda, and the Homestead in Virginia, Roland Mesnier took on the job of a lifetime as pastry chef to the White House. He provides behind-the-scenes insight into the characters,... (more)

Woodrow, the White House Mouse

by Peter W. Barnes

Children learn about the White house and the work of the president through the adventures of Woodrow G. Washingtail, president of the United Mice of America, and his family.

The president's house: A history

by William Seale

This engaging history of the house that has served as home to U.S. presidents for more than two centuries revises and enlarges William Seale's 1986 classic account of the White House's architectural, social, and cultural history. Besides updating the original volumes, the new edition includes chapters on the presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford,... (more)

National Geographic - Air Force One

National Geographic takes you on an exclusive tour inside Air Force One, part luxury hotel, part super-secret military command post. From its beginnings with President Roosevelt making a secret wartime flight in 1943 - to the historic flight that returned President Kennedy's body to Washington after his assassination - to the closing months of the Clinton administration, Air Force One takes you through the... (more)

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency

by Ph.D. Philip H. Melanson Ph.D.

This new edition of the definitive history of the Secret Service lays bare the 2004 Bush campaign’s political uses of the agency and the new challenges it faces as a branch of the Homeland Security Department, in a post-9/11 world. Acclaimed scholar of political violence and governmental secrecy Philip Melanson explores the long-hidden workings of the Secret Service since its inception in 1865 and through rigorous... (more)

Upstairs at the White HouseJ.b. West

Upstairs at the White House

by J.b. West

Presidents of the United States

by Editors Of Time For Kids

Did you know that James Monroe was the first President to appear without a wig in formal public settings? Or that George W. Bush named the first African Americans as secretaries of state? In this informative reference book by the editors of the award-winning TIME For Kids ® magazine, you'll learn about the Presidents' childhoods, careers, accomplishments in office, and life after the White House. As a great... (more)

Hijacking sustainability

by Adrian Parr

The idea of "sustainability" has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In Hijacking Sustainability, Adrian Parr describes how this has happened: how the goals of an environmental movement came to be mediated by corporate interests, government, and... (more)

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All-American Girl

by Meg Cabot

Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel

by Meg Cabot

The First Patient

by Michael Palmer

The First Counsel

by Brad Meltzer

The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home

by Margaret Truman

State of the Onion

by Julie A. Hyzy

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency

First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover

by Mitali Perkins

Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation

by Margaret L. Davis

Living History

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Air Force One: The Aircraft that Shaped the Modern Presidency

by Von Hardesty

All the Presidents' Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House, A Memoir

by Roland Mesnier

Woodrow, the White House Mouse

by Peter W. Barnes

The president's house: A history

by William Seale

National Geographic - Air Force One

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency

by Ph.D. Philip H. Melanson Ph.D.

Upstairs at the White House

by J.b. West

Presidents of the United States

by Editors Of Time For Kids

Hijacking sustainability

by Adrian Parr

by Ron Suskind