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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and with no clear international authority, the oceans have become the setting for rampant criminality--from human trafficking and slavery to environmental crimes and piracy. Now, in The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina--prize-winning reporter for The New York Times--gives us a galvanizing account of the several years...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his national security advisor pled guilty to others. Several Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by the president's actions that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process. Yet despite all...
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English
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"When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia's election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-winning feature documentary that follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21. In intimate observational style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: "Hard to put down" (Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed sweeping financial deregulation at the insistence of industry insiders that allowed these once quaint and useful institutions to spread their taxpayer-insured assets...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "Too Big to Fail" to almost every large corporation in America-- to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club-- an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs-- explains why. A character-driven...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Griffin Watts is 13 years old in 1974 New York, a city which, at the brink of financial collapse, seems to crumble around him at roughly the same rate as his family. Desperate to forge a connection to his father, Griffin gets co-opted into his illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business, which allows him to discover the centuries old sculptures (gargoyles) carved into buildings all over the city by immigrant artisans. As his father's obsession...
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English
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The improbable but true story of a man accused of murdering his entire family and the journalist he impersonated while on the run
In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under extraordinary pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times,
...92) Skin tight
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English
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Forty-two-year-old former Florida state investigator Mick Stranahan, having just speared an intruder with a stuffed marlin head, realizes that someone wants him dead, but it is going to take a lot of work to sort through the long list of suspects.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A "spellbinding account" of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize--winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review). Described by the New York Times Book Review as "worthy of being on the same shelf" as Liar's Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, and Barbarians at the Gate, this eye-opening business history explains how Washington and Wall Street cut the deals that led to a decade of greed. For the Securities...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs." But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a costly scam. Playing states and communities off against each other in a bidding war for jobs, corporations reduce their taxes to next-to-nothing and win subsidy packages that routinely exceed $100,000 per job. But the subsidies come with few strings attached....
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
David Mitchell, a portfolio manager in a profitable investment management group, and Jesse Hayes, an IRS agent, uncover a world of blackmail and corruption in which several corporate interests stand to profit illegally if a wealthy entrepreneur is elected as senator in an upcoming election.
97) The Mueller report: the final report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and collusion
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"There has never been a more important political investigation than Robert S. Mueller III's into President Donald Trump's possible collusion with Russia. His momentous findings can be found here, complete with: -- The 300+ pages of the historic report -- An introduction by constitutional scholar, eminent civil libertarian, and New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz. -- The relevant portions of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations,...
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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While on a tennis vacation in Antigua, a young English couple are charmed by Dima, a Russian money launderer who has set his sights on the couple's fortune, and find themselves in a danger game with the British Secret Service, the Russian mafia, and others who want them dead.
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Follows the commercial history of the Patagonian toothfish--otherwise known as the Chilean Sea Bass, a fishthat developed such as following that it became endangered, and chronicles the story of an Australian patrol boat's quest to capture a vessel believed to be engaged in illegal fishing in 2003.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It will be difficult for any reader to think about dinosaurs -- or birds -- in the same ways they had before." -- Publishers Weekly The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China in the twentieth century suggests that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence -- bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more -- has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed carnivores...
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