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Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. His story begins in 1963 at a French Officer's Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II, the...
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English
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The life story of Paul Rusesabagina, the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. As his country was torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Rusesabagina--the "Oskar Schindler of Africa"--refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while...
3) Indra Nooyi
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Grow Grit Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Follow Indra Nooyi as she shapes history as a leading CEO. In the new Mini Movers and Shakers children's book series comes a cast of characters who have failed, yet succeeded despite overwhelming obstacles. Find out what happens in this kid's book about trusting your instincts, despite what others say."--Amazon.
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Grosset & Dunlap, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was...? biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of his now-world-famous software company, Microsoft, Bill Gates became one of the wealthiest philanthropists in history.This fascinating story of a child...
5) Bill Gates
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Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Presents a brief biography of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, providing information on his early life, his education, his love of computers, and how he started Microsoft.
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EarthTales Press
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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In essays boh friendly and elegant, each named for a prairie denizen that has touched her, the author catches the essence of the High Plains like so many shimmering butterflies held long enough to share, then released to that everstretching sky.
8) Hotel Rwanda
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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A deeply moving true story about a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and worlds to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
11) Bill Gates
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A biography of Bill Gates including his childhood, his early work in computers, the founding of Microsoft and the expansion of the company, his private life, and future prospects.
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PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bill Gates is one of the biggest names in computer history, as a pioneering founder of Microsoft and a groundbreaking computer programmer. Readers will learn about Gates early life and his work leading the personal computer revolution. Through engaging and accessible text, readers will come to understand the impact Gates has had on computer development, and how his work continues to affect us today. A timeline presents a visual representation of Gates...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When Bill Gates was born in 1955, no one owned a personal computer. Gates envisioned what a computerized society could be and he set out to lead the way, building the Microsoft empire with single-minded drive. Today, the man who made his fortune by putting the whole world in touch now hopes to improve lives around the planet.
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English
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Publisher's description: An insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration. From the moment John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, flubbed the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Seven minutes after President Obama signed national health insurance into law, a lawyer in the office of Florida's Attorney General began a challenge that would eventually reach the nation's highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the United States Supreme Court, and one of its most insightful and trenchant observers takes us close up....
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Dutton
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest person on the planet, as of 2016. But at ninety-four, she's...
19) Bill Gates
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Series
Publisher
Weekly Reader Early Learning Library
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Español