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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today s new age of extreme weather. On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the booming port city on Texas s Gulf Coast. By dawn...
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English
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In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned...
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned...
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Offers detailed descriptions and expert analysis of important 20th century events in America. Events are introduced in essays, followed by interpretations that place the events into a broader context, and include annotated bibliographies, photos, glossary, and a timeline.
8) Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
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English
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Describes the things African American women did to help their country during World War II.
9) Season of '42: Joe D, Teddy ballgame, and baseball's fight to survive a turbulent first year of war
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English
Description
Discusses the history of the 1942 baseball season during World War II, looking at how it was shaped and influenced by the war.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
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English
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In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach.
Then the seventies arrived-bringing oil shocks and gas lines, the disgrace and resignation of a president, defeat in Vietnam, terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, urban squalor, bizarre crimes, high prices, and a bad economy. The country fell into a great funk.
But when things...
Publisher
Belzberg Films
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
Romanian
Description
Follows the hand-to-mouth existence of five Bucharest street kids. Their drug use, homelessness, and poverty are representative of the problems of thousands of other Romanian orphans and runaways. Romanian with English subtitles.
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Language
English
Description
In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old...
19) Live by night
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English
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In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
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