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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in many ways a model for the world, yet for one of the most fundamental of all human concerns, the imperative to keep ourselves and our loved ones free from harm, American ingenuity has failed. Unique in all of the developed world, America is bathed in violence. Our churches and schools, our movie theaters and dance clubs and music festivals are no longer safe places to congregate. Our politics is consumed by fear and intimations...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Hidden Figures, 'What The Children Told Us' tells the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between the two Black psychologists who pioneered the groundbreaking "doll test," paving the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and decades of impactful civil rights activism"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means for American politics and economics. Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. How much longer...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
Author
Publisher
Forum Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless-and how we can fight back-from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread. Over the past two generations, U.S. leaders deregulated big business on the faith that it would yield a better economy and a freer society. But the opposite happened. Americans lost stable, well-paying jobs, Wall Street dominated...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A reference for teen students provides information about the past, present, and future of American elections.
An in-depth introduction to the American election cycle. Fleischer explains the past, present, and future of American elections; how the election process actually works and why it matters; and how young people can become involved-- not just this year, but for years to come.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An award-winning entomologist and conservationist, drawing on thirty years of research, examines the evidence of an alarming drop in insect numbers around the world, which could cause an ecological disaster. What will happen when the bugs are all gone? Goulson explores the intrinsic connection between climate change, nature, wildlife, and the shrinking biodiversity and analyzes the harmful impact for the earth and its inhabitants.
73) Air Force
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the history, purpose, organization, and activities of the United States Air Force.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shares firsthand wartime accounts describing the courageous battlefield sacrifices of men and women from every branch and operational specialty of the U.S. military, from the Vietnam War through the present.
These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women whove fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is a rare eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.--
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Since then, the famous speech has led to many stories about it-but not all of them are true. Discover what's real and what's fiction through expertly leveled text containing primary sources"--
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of Black participation in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. Interspersed throughout the historical narrative are Pinckney's own...
Author
Publisher
Harper Select
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth. We've all dropped anchor in places that suited us for a time: a city, a perspective, a lie we mistook as truth. This book is an invitation to a kind of life...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers, to find the true peril in our food. In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific...
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