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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The co-host of Fox & Friends shares the true story of an anonymous group of spies who played lesser-known, important roles in winning the Revolutionary War, documenting how they risked their lives to obtain crucial intelligence for General Washington using sophisticated tactics and complex codes.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An inside account by the youngest member of Charles Manson's cult describes her indoctrination at age fourteen and the manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse that she endured before she was rescued and adopted by the police officer who arrested her.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Established feminist author Wendy Sanford, who is white, reflects on her complex lifelong friendship with Mary Norman, who is Black—exploring her formation in a narrow world of class and race privilege, lifting up the writings and social movements that changed her views and her life, and examining a sixty-year interracial friendship that evolved in the context of white supremacy.
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Language
English
Description
"Upon his election as President of the troubled United States, Abraham Lincoln faced a dilemma. He knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? Many abolitionists wanted Lincoln to move quickly, overturning the founding documents along the way. But Lincoln believed there was a way to extend equality to all while keeping and living up to the Constitution that he loved so much-if only he could buy...
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Language
English
Description
Using a new technology, recently discovered documents, and sophisticated investigative techniques, a retired FBI agent and a cold case team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest of Anne Frank and her family--and came to a shocking conclusion.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
If we’re lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For Daniel Wallace, that was his longtime friend and brother-in-law, William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook. William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate, and the person who gave him the courage to become a writer. But when...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An account of the election of 2016 and a study of Trump's rise to the presidency explores the contributions of Steve Bannon and how this man's ethno-nationalism and years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for an unlikely victory.
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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Documents the lesser-known scandals surrounding former Vice President Spiro Agnew, describing the massive bribery and extortion ring he operated and the efforts of three federal prosecutors to expose his activities before he could ascend to the presidency.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Details the extraordinary friendship between an old woman who refused to sell her home to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle and the construction supervisor who, erecting the shopping mall around her little house, helped her through the last days of her life.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation, made more acute by the awareness that her family of Bolshevik intellectuals, now reduced to waiting in bread lines, once lived large across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the more than two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the...
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Documents the top-secret guerilla campaign founded in London to orchestrate spectacular acts of sabotage against Hitler's war machine, profiling the six remarkable men behind the campaign and how they changed the course of World War II.
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