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English
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Presents a history of the 1741 slave rebellion that nearly destroyed New York City, and describes the conviction of over one hundred men and women who were either burned at the stake, hanged, or imprisoned and the social and political climate of the 1730s and 1740s.
2883) Mango All the Time
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the exciting conclusion to the Mango Delight trilogy, Mango goes to Hollywood and becomes the star of a television series! Mango Delight Fuller is ready for her next big break, which just might be in Hollywood! So she heads to California and auditions for a new television series. As she and her family settle in, she meets new friends who also end up competing with Mango for roles. Unfortunately, Mango's big screen test does not go well. But when...
2884) A Wallflower Christmas
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
American Rafe Bowman travels to London at Christmastime to meet Lady Natalie Blandford, the young woman his father has chosen to be his bride, and even though Rafe knows his future stake in his wealthy father's company depends on his marrying Natalie, he cannot seem to get her cousin and companion, Hannah, out of his mind.
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African American and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full‐length books for one great price! PRINCE EVER AFTER The Royal Weddings by A.C. Arthur An ill-fated engagement convinced Valora Harrington that finding Prince Charming wasn't in her cards. But that was before she was...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Flor Fernandez Barrios ushers readers into startling proximity to a Cuba seen through the eyes of a woman whose childhood was both shaped and shattered by the beautiful island. The indelible quality of Barrios's observations, specific and true, make Blessed by Thunder an important chronicle of the Cuban experience." -The Bloomsbury Review "Fernandez's book is a visually rich portrait of a tumultuous era. Fernandez knows how to craft a compelling...
2888) Treadmill: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Mosaic Press / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Treadmill is a truly unique and historically significant novel and the only book written about life in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II written at the time by an internee. Hiroshi Nakamura, along with his family, spent the war years in Salinas Assembly Center, Salinas, California; Camp II of the Poston Relocation Center, Parker, Arizona; and Tule Lake Segregation Center, Newell, California. It was during this period that...
2890) Flyboys
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A story of the young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States involvement in WWI, also known as Lafayette Escadrille, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This book charts the life of Andrew Carnegie, from Dunfermline bobbin boy to Steel King of America. The empire he forged in the steel furnaces of Pittsburgh was sold in 1901 for $480 million and Andrew Carnegie retired from business life as the richest man in the world. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline in 1835, but poverty forced the Carnegies to immigrate to Pittsburgh. Andrew was taken under the wing of Thomas A Scott, at Pennsylvania Railroad....
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
2897) Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of the Government's Protection of the Handicapped
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Despite what many politicians would like you to believe, the Americans with Disabilities Act is a travesty of government regulation -- it actually harms businesses, taxpayers, and, ironically, the people it's supposed to help: disabled Americans. In fact, it is such a disaster that Greg Perry, a man who himself was born disabled, declares in this eye-opening book, I am so very grateful that I was born long before the ADA was put into law." Feisty...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the \"preeminent historian of Reconstruction\" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Eric Foner's \"masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history\" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americansblack and whiteresponded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the preeminent historian of Reconstruction" ( New York Times Book Review ), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" ( New Republic ) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans --...
2900) We march
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.
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