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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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-- The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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-- Getting Out of Saigon ) story of a city on the eve of destruction and the colorful characters who respond differently to impending doom. It’s a remarkable account of one man’s quest to save innocent lives not because he was ordered but because it was the right thing to do.
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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-- The Jazz Singer All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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-- The New York Times Book Review Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes -- , O'Reilly and Dugard take readers behind the scenes, creating an unforgettable portrait of a great man operating in violent times.A Macmillan Audio production.
13) The State Must Provide: The Definitive History of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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-- How the Word is PassedThe State Must Provide The State Must Provide examines what happened before and after schools were supposedly integrated in the twentieth century, and why higher education remains broken to this day.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestsellerHidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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-- -- -- —Entertainment Weekly “A well-written, profoundly rational analysis of the trial and, more specifically, the lawyers who conducted it.”—USA Today “Engrossing . . . Toobin’s insight into the motives and mind-set of key players sets this Simpson book apart from the pack.”—People
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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-- Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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New York Times Blood & Ink freshly chronicles what remains one of the most electrifying but forgotten murder mysteries in U.S. history. It also traces the birth of American tabloid journalism, pandering to the masses with sordid tales of love, sex, money, and murder.
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