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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House. This is the story of two of America's most well-known presidents and how they learned to put their political differences aside for the sake of friendship....
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Traces the efforts of Santa Fe sculptor Veryl Goodnight and her partner to hand-raise a baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, an endeavor during which the couple came to realize the unique bonding potential between buffalo and humans.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presentation of the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army in exchange for a promise of freedom.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South." -- Publisher annotation.
Sixteen black men and two black women were torn between boycotting the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. If they go, they would represent a country that considered them second-class...
86) Griftopia: a story of bankers, politicians, and the most audacious power grab in American history
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The exclusive inside story of the lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo - the world's most wanted drug kingpin who evaded capture for more than a decade. A cinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work of Cole Merrell and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States...
89) When Jackie saved Grand Central: the true story of Jacqueline Kennedy's fight for an American icon
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a collection of oral histories, along with many photos, from the author's travels from the Deep South to the West Coast, and it shows what people across America lost and found because of COVID. Some have lost family, friends, jobs, even physical mobility. Others have found purpose that eluded them before the pandemic"--
91) Lost in Tibet: the untold story of five American airmen, a doomed plane, and the will to survive
Author
Publisher
Lyon's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
92) Genius of common sense: Jane Jacobs and the story of The death and life of great American cities
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
One World, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water that flowed from their taps--but officials rebuffed them,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers, " calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers, " as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Larry Nassar, longtime doctor at Michigan State University and physician for the US Olympic gymnastics team, has been called one of the worst sexual predators in history. This is the inside story of how he got away with abusing hundreds of gymnasts for decades--and how a team of brave women, activists, and lawyers banded together to bring him down"--
Chronicles the story of how serial sexual predator Larry Nassar got away with decades of abuse before...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party....
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every level In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local...
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