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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history.
Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. A singular figure at a singular moment, Adams...
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English
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Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less that two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old-great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955 having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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How much do you know about Vice President Kamala Harris? Discover the details you want to know about America's first female, Black, and Asian vice president. You'll learn about Kamala's early life, challenges she overcame, and the accomplishments of this fierce politician--
6) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A stray dog named Rags befriends a U.S. soldier in Paris, France, during WWI. Rags traveled with the troops carrying messages from the front line to the back. His loyalty kept him by his owner's side until Sergeant Donovan died at the base hospital in Chicago--
9) Ida B. Wells
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English
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How much do you know about Ida B. Wells? Find out the facts you need to know about this journalist and activist. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American--
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright 2020 by Isabel Wilkerson. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC--
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power-- which groups have it and which do not. Wilkerson explores how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid...
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory--
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. Iko, an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder, has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like undocumented and inequality. She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna grapples...
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English
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Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
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Atlee Pine novels volume 1
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English
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Atlee Pine is an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. And she's the best at it. She could be one of the Bureau's top criminal profilers, if she didn't prefer catching criminals in the vast wilderness of the West to climbing the career ladder in the D.C. office. Her chosen...
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