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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former president offers a candid journey through the defining decisions of his life and presidency, discussing the 2000 election, 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina, as well as his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Author
Series
Billy boyle world war II mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billy Boyle, an Irish-American cop who has become the personal private investigator of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, travels to Algeria in late 1942 to try to solve a series of murders involving French and American soldiers.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.
8) My life
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 92
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The former president looks back on his life and career, discussing his youth and education, his early public service, his years as governor of Arkansas, and his accomplishments during two terms in the White House.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
xi, 288 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Edition
1st Perennial ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xvi, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The governor of Texas and presidential candidate offers a political memoir addressing many of the issues that may decide the presidential election in 2000.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 13
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
x, 739 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the techno-thriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan"--
There's a new strong man in Russia, but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past, and the solution to that mystery...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life of the third president, from his childhood in Virginia, through his involvement in the Revolutionary War, to his years in office.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing. a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
605 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 Philadelphia, detailing the human side of the considerable ideas, arguments, issues, and compromises that shaped the formation of the U.S. Constitution and government.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
272 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of the foremost journalists on the topic, follows two pairs of sisters from opposite sides of the conflict to give readers a firsthand glimpse of the turmoil and devastation this strife has wrought. Sunni Muslim Ruha and her younger sister Alaa withstand constant attacks by the Syrian government...
18) You say it first
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for...