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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure. .
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Timothy Cox, who is good at following through on ideas, decides to wear the same unwashed socks for one month, ignoring the objections of his dachshund, Walt, and everyone else around him.
4) The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, big pharma, and the global war on democracy and public health
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci dispenses $6.1 billion in annual taxpayer-provided funding for rigged scientific research, allowing him to dictate the subject, content, and outcome of scientific health research across the globe—truly a dark agenda. Fauci uses the financial clout at his disposal in a back handed manner to wield extraordinary influence over hospitals, universities,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow ("4: Take responsibility for the face of the world"), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent ("11: Investigate"),...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore settles in at a wealthy and powerful legal firm that focuses primarily on civil cases. With some help from veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and possibly senile) Denny Crane. Though his questionable conduct...
8) Suppression, deception, snobbery, and bias: why today's media doesn't care they get so much wrong
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An examination of why American journalists are out-of-touch with the rest of society"--
9) Silverado
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail and learn who their real friends are.
10) Broken Angels
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mothers desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime. Blonde, blue-eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into the perfect Aryan child. Spirited and brave, she must inspire hope in the other...
11) Amy and Isabelle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In her shocking new book, Malkin goes where the mainstream media refuse to tread. She digs deep into the records of President Obama's staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of power throughout his administration.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggle to allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker that caused her...
16) Anthem
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hailed by The New York Times as "a compelling dystopian look at paranoia from one of the most unique and perceptive writers of our time," this brief, captivating novel offers a cautionary tale. The story unfolds within a society in which all traces of individualism have been eliminated from every aspect of life — use of the word "I" is a capital offense. The hero, a rebel who discovers that man's greatest moral duty is the pursuit of his own happiness,...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis Includes bibliographical...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In The Russia Hoax, Gregg Jarrett will expose the way persons within the FBI and Obama's Justice Department worked improperly to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. When this suspected effort failed, those same people appear to have contrived an investigation of President Trump in an attempt to undo the election results and remove him as president. The evidence suggests that partisans within the FBI...
20) Samsara dog
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A dog goes through various incarnations including a tough stray, a working dog, and a family pet and learns about love.