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Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2000, c1853
Language
English
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Description
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival.World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the author's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Rees new frontier! Much has happened on Drummond Ranch over the last couple of years: The kids are growing up, another left for college, Rees business has expanded, and her cooking has evolved. While she still cherishes her trademark family-friendly style of food, Rees been cooking up some incredible new dishes that reflect the flavors, colors, and texture shes craving these days.
Author
Series
Publisher
Time Warner AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video.
Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series and is the inspiration for the original series Cross on Prime Video!
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes...
Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series and is the inspiration for the original series Cross on Prime Video!
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes...
11) American dirt
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
Author
Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry! Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy...
14) Lean on me
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Tabitha Knicely loves her career as a pharmaceutical rep, but even her health care knowledge isn't much help with the daily challenges she now faces caring for her aunt with Alzheimer's. Her once organized lifestyle is in disarray and her patience is tested. On Sunday mornings, when Aunt Tweet drags her to church, though Tabitha isn't a believer, the peaceful presence of faith is a welcome relief. Marcus Whittington believes in second chances, so...
15) The help
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
18) The hate u give
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
As the country enters a new era of conversations around race and the enduring impact of slavery, The Hairstons traces the rise and fall of the largest slaveholding family in the Old South as its descendants-both black and white-grapple with the twisted legacy of their past.
Spanning two centuries of one family's history, The Hairstons tells the extraordinary story of the Hairston clan, once the wealthiest family in the Old South and the largest slaveholder...
20) Cross country
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer.
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