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1) Rainwater
Author
Language
English
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Description
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hillbilly Elegy shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author who is a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Shut out of the investigation of a massive bombing he witnessed, William Monk takes over when evidence surfaces that the person executed for the crime was innocent, a situation that places him in the center of a violent power struggle for control of the Suez Canal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of unmarried women in the United States to reveal that the concept of a powerful single woman, often perceived as a modern phenomenon, is not a new idea and explores the options, besides traditional marriage, that were historically available to women.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adapted for stage and screen, loved by millions, Victor Hugo's classic novel of love & tragedy during the French Revolution is reborn in this fantastic new manga edition! The illustrations brings to life the tragic stories of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, and the beautiful Fantine, in this epic adaptation of Les Miserables!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the events surrounding the United States entering World War II in December of 1941. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a young mother in the work force, a wounded African American veteran, or as a young California boy helping to end prejudice against Japanese citizens.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[c1994]
Physical Desc
229p maps
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the fates of the two daughters of a Saudi Arabian princess--the elder, driven by isolation and fear into a lesbian relationship and mental breakdown, and the younger, who is seduced by fundamentalist fanaticism
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amani longs to be a shepherd like her grandfather, Seedo. Like many Palestinians, her family has grazed sheep above the olive groves of the family homestead for generations, and she has been steeped in Seedo's stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos--and the wolf that once showed him the path there.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the acclaimed follow-up to the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, everyone's favorite curmudgeon is back and as funny and charming as ever with the newest adventures of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club--for fans of Frederik Backman and Graeme Simsion. Everyone's favorite octogenarian is back and, together with his pals in the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he is more determined than ever to wreak havoc and turn a twinkly eye on the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisianaon August 29, 2005journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storms immediate damage, the city of New Orleanss efforts to rebuild itself, and the storms lasting affects not just on the citys geography and infrastructurebut on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nations great cities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
volumes cm
Language
English
Description
"Through a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book debunks myths about the Underground Railroad and Black Americans' struggle for freedom"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer...
Author
Series
Out from Egypt volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
505 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a cruel mistress. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. Will she turn back, or surrender her future to Yahweh?
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
687 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A unique, revelatory portrait of small-town America: the activities, changes, and events that shape this mostly unseen part of our national landscape, and the issues and concerns that matter to the ordinary Americans who make these towns their home. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 652 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York; Dr. Sophie Savard, daughter of free people of color returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans...