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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own. When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held captive by Philip...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate look at America's historically rooted struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children, and a call to action to those in positions of power who are able to open doors of opportunity. You wouldn't guess it by listening to our elected officials, but education is the civil rights issue of our day. At the root of every important problem we face, from mass incarceration to income inequality, is an education system influenced by our nation's...
83) God's not dead 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A teacher finds herself in trouble when she answers a student's question about Jesus.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to live against a wall? In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world's most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco's desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism that probes the true meaning of desire and sexual freedom in today's age. At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona's life, and in America, was in extreme disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were suffering from overexposure. Embroiled in an era of fear, reckoning,...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water fountain, there was another virtually unheard of...
Author
Series
Word$ volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A chilling, unnerving, and timely debut novel about what it means to speak out, even in silence. "Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of The Thousandth Floor In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society. Speth Jime is anxious to deliver her Last Day speech...
88) Truth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the ensuing firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
"Truth" is based on a riveting true story of one of network news' biggest scandals. As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather (Redford), Mary Mapes (Blanchett) believes she's broken the biggest story of the 2004...
89) Genghis Khan and the quest for God: how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. He created the world's greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his empire was going to last, he would need something stronger and more binding than trade. He needed religion....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists--including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an "enemy of the American people." Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump's presidential campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning point: language like this ventured into dangerous territory. Twentieth-century dictators--notably, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao--had all denounced their critics, especially the press, as "enemies of the people."...
94) The pox party
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies, only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments.
95) We march
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Looks at a trend in a secularizing American society in which traditional religious believers are being pushed out of public life, and challenges secular liberals to apply their own standards of tolerance and diversity to traditional Christians.
97) Graffiti knight
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After a childhood cut short by war and the harsh strictures of life in Nazi Germany, sixteen-year-old Wilm is finally tasting freedom. In spite of the scars World War II has left on his hometown, Leipzig, and in spite of the oppressive new Soviet regime, Wilm is finding his own voice. It is dangerous, of course, to be sneaking out at night to leave messages on police buildings. But it is exciting too, and Wilm feels justified, considering his family...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Reverend Dave is called to defend a group of Christian homeschooling families. He finds himself taken aback by the interference of the government and believing that their right to educate their children is a freedom worth fighting for. Reverend Dave is called to Washington DC to testify in a landmark congressional hearing that will determine the future of religious freedom in our country for years to come.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alan Dershowitz has been called the "winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history." He has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and many more. Here, for the first time, Dershowitz writes about his evolution as a lawyer--how within a few short years he changed from a C-minus student in Yeshiva...
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