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1) First family
Author
Series
Sean King and Michelle maxwell volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Summoned by First Lady Jane Cox to rescue her niece from kidnappers, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are pushed to the limit in a search that is hampered by the highest levels of government security and Michelle's personal demons.
Author
Language
English
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"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, geniushis image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves -- oceans of them. With the canny sophistication of the savviest politician on the Hill, Alice uses her celebrity to her advantage, testing the limits of her power and the seductive thrill of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving intelligence from the Campus that the world's most threatening terrorist has been tracked to a specific location, Jack Ryan, Jr., the organization's latest recruits, and his cousins embark on a dangerous mission to capture him.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grace campaigns for president of her grade, but when her competition seems to have the support of all the male voters, she must use all her campaigning skills to win them over by showing that she is the best person for the job.
8) Father night
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
366 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson accompanies her father Thomas Jefferson to his posting in France, where she learns of her father's liason with a slave girl and falls for his prot�eg�e.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evanston, Virginia, twelve-year-olds Jonathan Murray and Shelley Brown are completely average and forgettable until they are recruited to help the League of Unexceptional Children save the Vice President of the United States, who has been kidnapped along with an important code.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
n May 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide.
Mary’s shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by her eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. Although they have long been estranged, Elizabeth knows Mary’s tenuous mental health has deteriorated through decades of trauma and loss. Yet is her suicide...
Author
Series
Mrs. Lincoln volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...
Author
Series
The Tapper twins volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A humorous oral history that chronicles twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper's heated competition to become sixth grade class president of their New York City private school, through text messages, photographs, screenshots, and more.
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Susan Murphy gets turned into a giant monster on her wedding day when a meteorite from outer space hits her. She is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley group of Monsters are called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Before 9/11, America was protected by a covert force known as the National Crisis Management Center, commonly known as Op-Center. But after the World Trade Center disaster, in the interest of streamlining, Op-Center was disbanded. But when terrorists detonate bombs in sports stadiums around the country, leaving men, women, and children dead or mutilated, the president executes an emergency order to bring back an Op-Center capable of dealing with the...
Publisher
Mongrel DVD
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Whether running for class president, homecoming queen, or posing as globe-trotting fashion conscious detectives to catch a jewel thief, The Chipettes are clearly up for any challenge. Join Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor as they join forces with Alvin and The Chipmunks in a series of musical adventures.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...