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1) Nix
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Nix has one goal: escape.
Hunted by the demonic hierarchy for a murderous joyride that she may have committed but definitely wasn't responsible for, Nix has been jumping from one unwilling host to the next in order to stay hidden-and it was working, for a while. But Nix soon finds that there are other hunters closing in.
Desperate, she borrows the body of a young paranormal hunter named Rachel. All Nix needs to do is lead the hunters away, and then...
3) Nix
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A feisty girl trapped in spirit form, Nix, must convince a self-doubting young prince, William, to embrace his powers before her vengeful father destroys the kingdom they both love. Now the ancient enemy of William's family has reappeared and now it is up to the two of them to stop the Wyvern and heal the land.
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Bestselling contemporary, new adult romance series.The Custom Culture guys, Nix, Clutch, Dray and Rett, are back for one final novel, and you're invited!Nix Pierce has been in love with Scotlyn James since long before he met her, and now he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But is Scotlyn ready?The Custom Culture series is best read in order.#1 Freefall#2 Clutch#3 Dray#4 Rett#5 Nix & Scotlyn: The WeddingAlso, read more about Finley, Eden,...
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With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time. Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative, groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose unlikely partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. More than thirty years after working side-by-side in the White House, Richard...
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With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review). In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous...
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"After taking the Oath of Office, Richard Nixon announced that 'government will listen... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in' and signed National Security Decision Memorandum 2. Using years of research and newly released NSC and administration documents, Ray Locker upends conventional wisdom about the Nixon presidency and shows how the creation of this secret, unprecedented, extra-constitutional government undermined U.S. policy...
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Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
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Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem--the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety --and it's up to Nick, his stepsister Laurie, and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick...
10) Nixon
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1987-c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 58
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English
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Mermaids to the rescue volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Nixie can't wait to join the Royal Mermaid Rescue Crew. Along with a magical seapony partner, she'll save merpeople in danger and use her natural creativity to keep the seas safe! But then Nixie gets matched with Rip -- a super-speedy seapony who's at the top of his class, but also a strict rule-follower. Rip and Nixie couldn't be more different! Will Nixie be able to befriend Rip...or will she have to look for another fish in the sea?"--Page 4 of...
12) Nixon: a life
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The rise, fall, and rebirth of Richard Nixon is perhaps the most fascinating story in American politics-and perhaps the most misunderstood. Nixon: A Life is the first entirely objective biography of Richard Nixon. Former British Defense Minister Jonathan Aitken conducted over sixty hours of interviews with the impeached former president and was granted unprecedented access to thousands of pages of Nixon's previously sealed private documents. Nixon...
15) Nixon's secrets: the rise, fall, and untold truth about the president, Watergate, and the pardon
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Examines the rise and fall of Richard Nixon and argues that John Dean was behind the Watergate break-in and cover-up, that Al Haig was responsible for Nixon's leaving power, and that Nixon blackmailed Gerald Ford to get a pardon.
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During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel S. Chard shows how America's war with domestic guerillas prompted a host...
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After-School Superstars volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Nixie and Grace have been best and only friends since preschool, but now Nixie must attend an after-school cooking camp while Grace spends her afternoons with classmate Elyse.
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Geoff Shepard had a ringside seat to the unfolding Watergate debacle. As the youngest lawyer on Richard Nixon's staff, he personally transcribed the Oval Office tape in which Nixon appeared to authorize getting the CIA to interfere with the ongoing FBI investigation, and even coined the phrase "the smoking gun." Like many others, the idealistic Shepard was deeply disappointed in the president. But as time went on, the meticulous lawyer was nagged...
20) The Nixon tapes
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"The famous--and infamous--Nixon White House tapes that reveal for the first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in his own words President Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every word spoken in the Oval Office, CabinetRoom, and other key locations in the White House, and at Camp David--3,700 hours of recordings between 1971 and 1973. Yet less than 5 percent of those conversations have ever been transcribed and published....