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81) Forge
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Seeds of America trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
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Pleasant Company
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2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Perce village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Perce Indians.
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Seventeen people flee their home country in a tiny fishing boat on the open sea.
They sneak out of communist Vietnam under the cover of darkness, heading for the South China Sea, and freedom.
On board is a pregnant mother, carrying her third child. Two young daughters. And a father, a former soldier with nothing in his pockets but a pack of cigarettes.
Leaving behind a land they love and fear, they navigate unexpected perils and terrifying times...
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"Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their tumultuous family lives and declining town -- broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle-school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them,...
85) Summary of Destined for War Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?: Conversation Starters
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison: Conversation Starters
China has arrived as a superpower and America seems to have a hard time grasping this reality. The US and China have to learn the skill to make adjustments to this global power shift. The law of Thucydides's Trap says that "when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, violence is the likeliest result." History shows that this situation...
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An Imperfect God is a major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life-as a Virginia planter, soldier,...
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Based on real family events, Danny Scheinmann's novel paints a dramatic portrait of two epic love stories.
1992: Traveling through South America with his girlfriend, Leo wakes up in a hospital to find his girlfriend is dead. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But a surprising secret leads Leo to discover something that will change his life forever.
1917: Moritz is a POW fugitve, with seven thousand kilometers...
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"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. Includes his companion essay, 'Memories of My Grandmother'."--
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America's Long Struggle Against Slavery volume 10
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English
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Runaway slaves in Virginia and the Carolinas had limited options. They could head for the coast or down to Spanish-controlled Florida, but some runaway slaves simply disappeared into the backcountry. Find out where these "maroons" went, how they lived, and what dangers they faced if discovered.
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS..but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
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Ten information-packed chapters make up this engaging guide to women's travel for the growing number of women-young, old, single, married, divorced, and widowed-who are hitting the road. The guide covers everything from fabulous birthday getaways to the best places to heal, shop, and bond with friends and family. The trip choices range widely and and entice-and suit every occasion, mood, and pocketbook. From fun-filled weekends in New York, Quebec,...
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The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.In a style both personal and historically groundbreaking, acclaimed author Kati Marton (herself born in Budapest) tells the tale of their youth in Budapest's Golden Age of the early twentieth century, their flight, and their lives of extraordinary accomplishment,...
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Be Empowered by Forgiveness
This book is about a beautiful, enriching, breathtaking, and resilient true-life story of Elyvanie Mukangoga.
After suffering and losing so much, she encountered a voice of God, which told her to forgive in order to be worthy of living. When she heard that voice, she asked, "Forgive what?" Then her past life played in her mind like a movie preview, showing her the murders of her parents and family in 1994 genocide, her...
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"When Caleb Wardell, the infamous 'Chicago Sniper', escapes from death row two weeks before his execution, the FBI calls on the services of Carter Blake, a man with certain specialized talents whose skills lie in finding those who don't want to be found. A man to whom Wardell is no stranger. Along with Elaine Banner, an ambitious special agent juggling life as a single mother with her increasingly high-flying career, Blake must track Wardell down...
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RHETORIC is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly, all men make use, more or less, of both; for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them, to defend themselves and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either, at random or through practice, and from acquired, habit. Both...
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In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything...
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The story of how an impoverished three-member Catholic farm family saved thirteen Jews from the Holocaust in Lithuania, seven of them escapees from Kovno Ghetto. All sixteen lived and as of 2015, five of the Jews are still living. This book is being used in public and private schools, colleges and universities, as well as in Holocaust conferences in the U.S. and in Europe. Izzy's Fire was nominated by a People's Choice Award by the Library of Virginia...
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After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
100) Villa America
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2015.
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A tale based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tender is the night finds expats Sara and Gerald Murphy sharing freewheeling days, hosting parties and hiding heartbreaking secrets in the 1920s French Riviera.