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My weird school volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. Macky, the reading specialist who thinks he is Abraham Lincoln, assigns A.J. and his friends to read all about the presidents for President's Day.
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
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President Jake Cazalet no sooner learns that he has a daughter--the product of an affair he had while in Vietnam--than the girl is kidnapped by men whose demands leave Jake no recourse but to turn to former IRA enforcer and security specialist Sean Dillon and FBI agent Blake Johnson for help.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
6) Patient one
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The U.S. and Russian presidents and their guests become violently ill at a state dinner and are rushed to a medical center where they are taken hostage by Chechen terrorists, undetected, emergency room doctor David Ballineau and nurse Carollyn Ross work to keep the patients alive.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Young writer David Chase is commissioned to do an honest biography of presidential candidate Andrew Jackson and is allowed to become part of the politician's entourage, which makes it difficult for him to decide what to do when he uncovers proof that Jackson's wife engaged in youthful indiscretions.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Traces the historic arc of Lincoln's life from his picaresque days as a gangly young lawyer in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable marriage to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 visit to war-shattered Richmond only days before his assassination.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Kramer, the first female president of the United States, struggles to regain her footing when rumors of her husband's infidelity and her national security advisor's errors in judgment threaten her marriage, administration, and the country.
Author
Language
English
Description
From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been fourteen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful. But now, Beecher White discovers a killer in Washington, DC who's meticulously recreating the crimes of the world's most famous assassins: John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald. But what's scariest of all is what all four assassins have in common.
15) Fatherland
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1964, Hitler is about to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday and President Joseph P. Kennedy is to visit Berlin to initiate detente with Germany.
17) Wildfire run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
18) First family
Author
Language
English
Description
A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits.
19) Never
Author
Language
English
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Description
"'Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.' So says Pauline Green, president of the United States. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of a world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover...
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Language
English
Description
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body.
Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death,...
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