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21) TransAtlantic
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A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.
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Tripods trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants. Long ago, the Tripods -- huge, three-legged machines -- descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person's...
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"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy -- one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over a million copies in English,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his...
29) Hall Pass
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[2011]
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Rick and Fred are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives take a bold approach to revitalizing their individual marriages: granting them a 'hall pass,' one week of freedom to do whatever they want, no questions asked.
"...a worthwhile, farcical comedy."--Empire Magazine.
"It's a terrific performance..."--New...
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[2023].
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"LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something—hope, reconciliation, freedom. In 'Cutting Horse,' the appearance of a horse in a man’s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In 'Holler, Child,' a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows...
31) The Liberty Bell
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Clara, a tour guide at the Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, tells the history of the Liberty Bell and explains that it is part of the Independence National Historical Park today.
32) Liberty falling
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Anna Pigeon leaves the rugged countryside of Colorado to face the concrete wilds of New York City. Anna is in Manhattan to look after her sister Molly, seriously ill with pneumonia and a kidney infection. Pigeon moves in with a ranger friend who has a place on Ellis Island.
34) Naming Liberty
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial.
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Harriet Tubman was a scout for the union army and led a successful raid up the Combahee River in South Carolina that freed 750 men, women, and children. This is the historical novel of her heroic raid.
It's May 1863. Out-generaled and out-gunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back with massive losses at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Fort Sumter, hated symbol of the Rebellion, taunts the American navy with its artillery and underwater mines....
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Pub. Date
c2005
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First published anonymously in December 1689, John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" are considered to be some of the most important works of political philosophy ever written. In the first treatise, Locke disputes the divine right of monarchial rule principle that is put forth in the book "Patriarcha" by Sir Robert Filmer. The first treatise is in fact a sentence by sentence refutation of "Patriarcha." Filmer asserts the idea that absolute authority...
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Liberty bell volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
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Two young men, united by blood but divided by loyalties, court the affections of Jeanne Corbeau in a conflict that allows no neutrals.
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Boys of wartime volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1776 Boston, twelve-year-old Daniel Prescott enjoys assuming his father's role in taking care of his mother and sister, as well as his work as a spy and messenger for the American revolutionaries, but the pleasure ends when he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand, and learns that a trusted patriot is actually a British spy.
39) Elijah of Buxton
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. Elijah's the firs child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that-not to mention for being the best at chunking rocks and catching fish. unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and tends to talk too much. But everything changes when a fromer slave steals money from Elijah's friend,...