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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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An illustrated edition of John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning study of men who, at a risk to themselves, stood fast for a principle, including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, Robert Taft, and others. Includes an epilogue by Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr.
2) Strip tease
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English
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At the Eager Beaver, a topless bar in Fort Lauderdale, former FBI clerk Erin Grant dances nightly to pay for legal fees in her custody fight for her young daughter. There David Dilbeck, a U.S. Congressman owned by the state's sugar interests is recognized by a regular who is infatuated with Erin and initiates a blackmail plan to influence her court case. The resulting mayhem, occurring in election year, involves machinations up to the highest state...
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English
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"Colorado Congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term quietly when a political mole reveals his deepest secret: Kendrick was the anonymous hero who freed the hostages held by Arab terrorists in the American embassy in Masqat, and then silently disappeared. Now, brought into the light, Kendrick is a target, pursued by the terrorists he once outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.
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English
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It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were challenged to come up with something more intriguing. Thus, for the only time in his career, Twain collaborated on a novel with another author. The title of their rollicking 1873 tale became synonymous with the rampant post—Civil War corruption of Washington, D.C., where...
6) Becoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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December Memoir & Biography Display 2022
Oprah's Book Club
Women's History Month
Women's History Month 2023
Oprah's Book Club
Women's History Month
Women's History Month 2023
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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A chronicle of the Massachusetts senator's career in Washington describes her childhood pursuit of an education, early exposure to the dysfunctional political process, advocacy of better bankruptcy laws, and run for public office.
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Bantam Books
Language
English
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Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even her close friends did not know the name of the illness that debilitated her for two decades until it struck her down at the age of fifty-nine. In Barbara...
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Doubleday
Language
English
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Judge Richard Quinn is determined to run an ethical courtroom, but when he is called upon to preside over the trial of state senator Ellen Crease who has been accused of conspiring to kill her wealthy husband, he discovers that the path to justice is not always clearly marked.
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Publisher
Airmont Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
c1968
Language
English
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Democracy: An American Novel (1880) is a novel by Henry Adams. Published anonymously, Democracy: An American Novel draws on Adams' experience as a political journalist in Washington, DC who worked to expose corruption in American government. Although fictional, the novel is viewed as a commentary on the presidential administrations of the 1870s and political atmospheres surrounding each. "For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot...
12) Life sentence
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Years after a party that resulted in a teen's death, Jon Soliday, legal counsel to a politician and close childhood friend who is running for governor, realizes with horror that his fellow partygoers are being killed off.
13) Dead watch
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English
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At the request of the White House, Jake Winter investigates the disappearance of former Senator Lincoln Bowe. But the trail of clues leads Jake into the heart of a scandal that could cost him his life and topple the federal government.
16) What happened
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English
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Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference,...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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The autobiographical memoir of the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of the State of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the United States Senate. Harris discusses the impact that her family and community had on her life, and how she came to discover her own sense of self and purpose.
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Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"In the tradition of Notorious RBG, a lively, beautifully designed, full-color illustrated celebration of the life, wisdom, wit, legacy, and fearless style of iconic American Congresswoman Maxine Waters. "Let me just say this: I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined. I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O'Reilly or anyone."-Maxine Waters To millions nationwide, Congresswoman Maxine Waters is a hero of the...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker--how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance"--
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