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22881) An hour before daylight
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The former president offers an account of growing up on a Georgia farm during the Depression and provides profiles of the people who shaped his life, including his segrationist farmer father and strong-willed nurse mother.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lebanon, 2006. The Israel-Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart: bombs are raining down, residents are scrambling to evacuate, and the country is on the brink of chaos. In the midst of this turmoil, the CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist, Najib Qassem. Najib is believed to be planning the assassination of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is coming to Beirut in ten days to broker a cease-fire. The spy agencies are...
Author
Publisher
Universe
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Presents an abridgment of the author's pictorial tours of great cities and other places in the United States, including Manhattan, the nation's capital, the John F. Kennedy Space Center, the Lone Star State, and the city by the Golden Gate.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history-and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin-all while converging at a single Chinatown address"--
22887) Rosa Parks: freedom rider
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Rosa Parks boarded the bus that fateful day knowing exactly what she was going to do. She was going to stand up for her rights..." back cover
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Describes how President Eisenhower used surrogates to orchestrate a secret campaign against the powerful Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy best known for his anti-Communist witch hunt, that ultimately resulted in McCarthy being censured and discredited,"--NoveList.
22891) Gunfighters
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Documents factual stories of history's notorious bandits and the officer and rangers who attempted to maintain law and order in the Old West.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended - and the stakes were never higher. The leaders of every country involved were left without a choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies. ... Readers will be captivated...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The powerful story of one Marine who found healing and renewed purpose after returning from combat, for himself and tens of thousands of fellow veterans. When Marine sniper Jake Wood came home in 2009 from grueling tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, his country asked yet more of him: to compartmentalize his traumatic memories, put his elite military training on a shelf, and adjust to living outside high-stakes situations. Jake feared he would join the...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. One of New Jersey's seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. A town that would rather have been known for its...
22898) The little princesses
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
Marion Crawford, governess for Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret of England tells the story of their childhood and young adulthood through the birth of the future Queen's first child.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the destruction caused by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, the slow return of plant and animal life, and the special area set aside to study this renewal.
22900) I am John Lewis
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about the late American politician and civil rights activist John Lewis"--
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