Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and her story--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hillbilly Elegy shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author who is a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The author offers his opinion about the rapidly declining state of politics, Hollywood, Medicare, and every social echelon of the nation, scathingly examining such powerful and famous people as Susan Sarandon, George W. Bush, and Dick Morris.
8) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a no-holds-barred assessment of American culture and shows how Americans can get involved and change the nation's course for the better, discussing such issues as national debt, national security, and family values.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents the confirmed murders of more than 300 women in the border city of Juarez, Mexico, as well as reports of hundreds of missing women, traces the work of the Mexican police, and speculates on who is behind the attacks.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Condemned by sixteenth-century demands for lucrative dowries in order to marry, young Serafina is ripped from an illicit love affair and confined in an Italian convent, a situation against which she passionately rebels and reminds the convent's doctor of her own unhappy early years.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an analysis of how four events in 1969, the moon landing, the Manson murders, Woodstock, and the invention of the Internet, all had a significant social and political impact on American culture that has lasted up to the present day.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the costs of fracking as demonstrated by the volatile personalities and politics of a rural Allegheny town where an unlikely whistle-blower tried to investigate the sources of mysterious local illnesses.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains....