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Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Modeled after traditional primers, this book includes individual stories and poems about America's history, character, conservation, famous people, and national symbols"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her parents were the first African American family to walk into...
Publisher
Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An analysis of Dan Brown's novel, The lost symbol, which again features his protagonist Robert Langdon. Examines the story's focus on Freemasonry, presenting dramatic recreations of pivotal moments in American history alongside visits to contemporary locations in Washington, D.C. to explore the facts of its most famous symbols, images, and legends.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 371
Language
English
Description
"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since this nation's founding, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, the frontier made possible the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation -- democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, the country has a new symbol: the border wall. In [this book], acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the effect that constant, relentless...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's competition, chronicling the relationship between the sport and American society"--
10) The crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
11) Hemingway
Publisher
[PBS Direct]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"HEMINGWAY examines the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers -- Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together Hemingway's biography with excerpts from his work. The film penetrates the myth of Hemingway to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure."--
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. In Why didn't we riot?, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private...
Author
Publisher
Harper Trophy
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Born a slave, Harriet Tubman dreamed of freedom. And through hard work and her willingness to risk everything-including her life-she was able to make that dream come true.But after making her escape, Harriet realized that her own freedom was not enough. So she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and devoted her life to helping others make the journey out of bondage. An invisible threat to plantation owners, she served as a symbol of strength...
14) My story
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written at the height of her fame, but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, her marriage to Joe DiMaggio, and more. The Marilyn in these pages is a revelation: a gifted, intelligent, vulnerable woman who was far more complex...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
CRIME & MYSTERY. The famous Orient Express, thundering along on its three days' journey across Europe, came to a sudden stop in the night. Snowdrifts blocked the line at a desolate spot somewhere in the Balkans. Everything was deathly quiet. "Decidedly I suffer from the nerves," murmured Hercule Poirot, and fell asleep again. He awoke to find himself very much wanted. For in the night murder had been committed. Mr. Ratchett, an American millionaire,...
16) White feather
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen & full screen.
Language
English
Description
In an effort to peacefully coexist with white settlers, a Cheyenne tribe agrees to resettle, sacrificing valued Wyoming hunting grounds to make way for gold prospecting. Led by Colonel Lindsay, the tribe's resettlement journey is also guided by a rugged land surveyor, Josh Tanner and his Cheyenne tribesmen friends-- Little Dog and American Horse. But an attraction between Little Dog's fiancée and Tanner threatens to ruin the resettlement plans, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial."--Provided by publisher.
18) Countdown
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows--until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband anddaughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall's countdown has begun"--
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
20) The real Wallis Simpson: a new history of the American divorcee who became the Duchess of Windsor
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the center of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this "unputdownable...lively and detailed" (The Times, London) biography, discover a woman wronged by history with new information revealed by the latest research and those who were close to the couple.
The story that has been told repeatedly is this: The handsome, charismatic, and popular Prince Edward was expected to...
The story that has been told repeatedly is this: The handsome, charismatic, and popular Prince Edward was expected to...
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