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2) John Adams
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former Republican presidential nominee chronicles his political career from the election of Barack Obama through the divisive 2016 election, offering his opinions of the current developments in Washington as well as his recommendations for ongoing international challenges.
Author
Language
English
Description
Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ron Chernow vividly re-creates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's life - his exotic, brutal upbringing; his titanic feuds with celebrated rivals; his pivotal role in defining the shape of the federal government; his shocking illicit romances; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
419 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hunted by mercenaries, Molly Ross draws together a small group willing to risk their lives to infiltrate a secure location holding secrets that, if revealed, would forever change the way Americans view their place in history.
Author
Series
Everyday handbook volume 261
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[1955]
Physical Desc
viii, 437 p. illus., maps. 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
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
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by important people, ideas, and events in the history of the United States.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals are featured.
16) Veeps
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
17) A warning
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital. --
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxi, 551 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents profiles of the radicals, the reformers, and the revivalists of the Middle East, explaining the implications of each movement and the importance of each leader through the lenses of politics, economics, and Scripture.
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
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
From his personal ascent from inner-city poverty to international medical and humanitarian acclaim, Carson shares experiential insights that help us understand what is good about America, where we have gone astray, and which fundamental beliefs have guided America from her founding into preeminence among nations.