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27081) The pact
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Three young black men from Newark made a pact, they promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attaining that dream.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title will inform readers about Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, the organizers, the march's purpose, and King s famous speech, I Have a Dream. Vivid details, well-chosen photographs, and primary sources bring this story and this case to life. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, families headed west to build ranches and start new lives in the cattle business. Their daughters were raised on the range with an independent spirit and horses in their blood. Chronicles the lives of cowgirls, from their gear to their social status, profiling famous cowgirls including Calamity Jane, Fannie Sperry, and Annie Oakley.
27084) Born free
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When game warden George Adamson (Bill Travers) is forced to kill a lion and lioness, he and his wife Joy (Virginia McKenna) adopt their three cubs. Two are sent off to zoos but the third is kept, a female they name Elsa, to which they have become attached. When Elsa is fully grown, the Adamsons realize she must be taught to survive on her own and eventually set free.
27085) Thomas Jefferson
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third Prsident of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
27086) Jungleland
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
The author chronicles his present-day journey to find Ciudad Blanca, the legendary White City rumored to exist in the rain forests of Nicaragua's and Honduras' Mosquito Coast, following in the footsteps of the explorer and World War II spy Theodore Morde, who set out on the same journey on April 6, 1940.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Shaffer delivers an eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the military's most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martin's Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They, and "other interested U.S. intelligence agencies" met with the author to review changes and redactions that they required be made,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight that embodies the cutting edge of multiple sciences and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Documents how a betrayed Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I, raised her four daughters in exile during the Dutch Golden Age, tracing how their stories shaped a three-decade war and fulfilled the promises of their great-grandmother, Mary Queen of Scots.
The captivating story of four unforgettable sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth Stuart, granddaughter of Mary, Queen of ScotsYoung Elizabeth Stuart was thrust into a life of wealth...
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
When Harry Hopkins arrives in beleaguered and Blitzed London in January of 1941, he carried a letter from President Roosevelt introducing him as his "very good friend in whom I repose the utmost confidence." From the moment he moved into the White House the previous May, Hopkins' position was nearly unique in American history. Lacking an official title or a clear-cut executive branch portfolio, he could take the political risks his famously inscrutable...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Discover the man behind Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang in this imaginative and tender-hearted tribute told in comic-strip format! Charles M. Schulz was arguably the most influential and popular cartoonist of the 20th century, and he poured many of his own emotions and experiences into the world of Peanuts over its iconic 50-year run. Now, Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi pay tribute to the master by telling the story of Schulz's life...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This book explores Dickinson's deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson's poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers a new perspective on one of Americas most celebrated but enigmatic...
27095) The America we deserve
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"The America We Deserve is Donald Trump's platform for the major political issues facing our country. He offers no-nonsense, populist, provocative, and dramatic solutions that no other politician would dare put forward."--Jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In 1921, Françoise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise's...
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