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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A new lockdown to "save" the climate. That’s what’s in store for us if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats pass their radical climate plan—the Green New Deal. It is packed with guarantees so completely irrelevant to the problem it purports to "solve" (like "free college" and incomes for everyone "unable or unwilling to work") that even its boosters have admitted it’s not really about the climate...Climate change has already been "solved"...
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change--accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. Not in the distant future--now. One recent estimate predicts 13 million American workers will lose their...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A guide for the times—breaking down the lies about COVID-19 and shedding light on why we came to believe them. When he invented the original mRNA vaccine technology as a medical and graduate student in the late 1980s, Robert Malone could not have imagined that he would become a leader in a movement to expose the dangers of mRNA vaccines that billions of people have received—too often without being informed of the risks. For voicing opposition...
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Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The Battle to Stay in America is the story of a community learning to defend itself from the U.S. federal government's crackdown on immigrants. Told through the eyes of a lawyer on the front line, the book offers an introduction to a broken legal system"--
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoring the Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes unleashed by the Muslim ban, and personal problems of...
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