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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chautauqua Institution
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Abridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1410L
Language
English
Description
Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, he served as a captain in the army and taught at West Point before coming to Mount Holyoke in 1972. He was dean of the faculty there for ten years. Among his previous books are Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams and American Sphinx, which won the 1997 National Book Award.
...Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, OCCASIONAL MAGIC features voices familiar and new. Alongside Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, and Wang Ping, storytellers from around the world share times when, in the face of challenging situations, they found moments of beauty, wonder, and clarity, shedding light on their lives...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors of An Invisible Thread comes a heartwarming and inspiring book about the incredible impact that acts of kindness from strangers can have on the world around us. One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's for lunch. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth birthday...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the various kinds of pets, including grizzly bears and alligators, kept at the White House by various presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Presidential historian Beschloss has brought us a saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous president dramatically changed the future of the United States. Beschloss brings to life these flawed, complex men--and their wives, families, friends and foes, in an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives. As he shows, none of these presidents was eager to incur ridicule, vilification...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2013
Edition
[Library ed.], unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In this work the author asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? He compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity...
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