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1) Masked prey
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English
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"Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians. The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures , of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants...
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English
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"In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his political career. In each other, Hillary and Bill find a profound intellectual, emotional, and...
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and lasting legacy of politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and discusses how his crusade for gay rights led to open hostility that ended in 1978 when he was assassinated by his San Francisco Board of Supervisors rival.
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Follow the life of Stacey Abrams, from her childhood spent growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, to her work with civic engagement and mass voter registrations in Georgia, to her groundbreaking work as the first woman to lead in the Georgia General Assembly and first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. Find out about Stacey Abram's life, achievements, and the challenges she faced along the way. The Level 2 text provides accessible,...
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English
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Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
When Nancy Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House, she made history. She gavelled the House to order that day on behalf of all of America's children and said, "We have made history, now let us make progress." Now she continues to inspire women everywhere in this thought-provoking collection of wise words--her own and those of the important people who played pivotal roles in her journey.--From publisher description.
Publisher
Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia's outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, THE CODE tells the story of two very different brothers who unearth information those at the highest levels of political power will kill to keep secret. Ned (Dan Spielman) and Jesse Banks (Ashley Zukerman) - one, a young internet journalist, the other a troubled hacker - are gifted a poisoned chalice when a phone video of an outback accident...
11) Hotel Portofino
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A heady historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. Hotel Portofino has been opne for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests are demanding and heard to plase. And she's being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politican, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot cauldron of Mussolini's...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"They say all politics is local. In 2020, Mitch McConnell will have served five full terms as a US Senator. Thirty years. The Senate Majority leader's power is as undeniable as it is infuriating, and the people of Kentucky have had enough. Led by Matt Jones, they (and they alone) have the power to oust him from office. How did Jones, a local boy turned attorney turned sports radio host come to shine the brightest light on McConnell's ineptitude? Simple--he...
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English
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First published in 1959, The Manchurian Candidate is Condon's riveting take on a little-known corner of the cold war, the almost sci-fi concept of American soldiers captured, brainwashed, and programmed by their Chinese captors to return to the states as unsuspected political assassins.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Season one of the Netflix original series House of Cards. Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
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English
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Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
19) Under the dome
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
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English
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The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
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