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2) Lincoln
Publisher
Chilton
Pub. Date
2014-
Language
English
Description
ChiltonLibrary provides online access to repair, maintenance and service information on seven decades of the broadest range of vehicles available, including cars, trucks, vans and SUVs.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
Author
Language
English
Description
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth, " the president...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Representing the system's most unsavory characters in his work as a criminal defense lawyer, jaded attorney Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by sinister events that suggest the workings of a particularly evil perpetrator.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
American President Cotton Malone tackles the secrets of Mormonism, a U.S. Senator's stealthy secession plan, and a history-shaping letter that was handed down through the chief executive line.
"September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"A nation shattered by its president's murder Two diaries that reveal the true scope of an American conspiracy A detective determined to bring the truth to light, no matter what it costs him From award-winning journalist Timothy L. O'Brien comes a gripping historical thriller that poses a provocative question: What if the plot to assassinate President Lincoln was wider and more sinister than we ever imagined? In late spring of 1865, as America mourns...
Author
Series
Flashback Four volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Miss Z, a mysterious billionaire and a collector of rare photographs, is sending her four recruits back in time on a mission to capture, for the first time, one of the most important moments in American history--Abraham Lincoln giving his famous Gettysburg address"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In an account of the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, readers get a glimpse into the shared bond between two great American leaders during a turbulent time in history.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth president which focuses on the issue of slavery and the importance it had throughout Lincoln's life from his early days as a lawyer through his presidency.
Author
Publisher
Newmarket Press for ItBooks
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"An official companion to Steven Spielberg's movie Lincoln, this riveting history written for young readers by noted Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, explores Abraham Lincoln's life, his evolving personal and political beliefs about slavery, and his genius that led to ending the Civil War, re-uniting the country, and ensuring passage of the 13th Amendment that ended slavery in America"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"By one of the nation's foremost legal historians, a groundbreaking history of the pioneering American role in establishing the modern laws of war. In the fateful closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, Abraham Lincoln's top military advisors commissioned a code of rules to govern the armies of the United States in a newly intensified war effort. The code Lincoln issued the next spring helped shape the remaining two years of Civil...
Author
Publisher
Walker Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Offers a complete portrait of this celebrated president through a review of his childhood upbringing, political views and goals, and historic legacy through an examination of his speeches, including the Gettysburg address, period photographs, personal statements, and more.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln tried to make life easier for others. Then during the darkest days of the Civil War, when everyone needed hope, President Lincoln cleared a path for all Americans to a better future. As a boy, Abraham Lincoln helped his family break through the wilderness and struggle on a frontier farm. When Lincoln was a young man, friends made it easier for him to get a better education and become a lawyer, so as a politician...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
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