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English
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"Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters--each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next--dominate the English scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress. As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious...
2) Mein Kampf
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Language
English
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Mein Kampf is an autobiography of Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. It contains stories from his childhood, the events and situations that influenced his ideologies, and his prejudices. It explains his visions for German expansion through Europe, the Unification of Germany and Austria, and his assertion of the superiority of the 'Aryan' Race.
Hitler began dictating the book to Hess while imprisoned...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
Author
Series
A Wells and Wong mystery volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home when someone falls mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty,...
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English
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok--a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.