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Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses extremist groups in the U.S., such as American jihadists, abortion oppositionists, white supremacists, eco-terrorists, and others, and covers issues about the rights of these groups and related court cases, and provides a timeline.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan's office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble's sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Uses personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, to unveil the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its spread across the American South.
Author
Publisher
Lucent Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hate crimes can take many forms. Assaulting someone, vandalizing their property, or simply making them feel threatened are all considered hate crimes when they are motivated by animosity for a particular group. Readers learn that these offenses often take place because the perpetrator has a fundamental misunderstanding or fear of the people in that targeted group. Informative charts and discussion questions for each chapter encourage readers to think...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Contains case studies, first-person accounts, and interviews with white supremacists to examine hate groups in the United States, explaining the differences between the different groups, and discussing how they sustain themselves by gaining new members.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe and Suze used to be closer than sisters. Growing up in a quiet and wildly beautiful coastal town in Oregon, they shared everything. Until the secrets they couldn't share threatened their bond and complicated their lives. Now, decades later, Suze, a famous actress desperate for safe haven following a brutal attack, is back in town. Phoebe, a successful illustrator and fabric designer, has discovered keeping a secret means she can't let anyone...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It started off small. Just a dripping outside my window.When Morgan witnesses some eerie happenings in her family's new house, at first she shrugs them off. But as the unsettling dripping noises--and the sounds of someone crying--become more frequent, she starts to get nervous. Then a neighbor asks Morgan a blood-chilling question: What's it like to live in a haunted house?It seems Morgan's new home is notorious in the town of Port Jefferson, all...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Many extremist groups have emerged in recent years. Moreover, many individuals harbor extremist viewpoints and have taken action on their own. They do this to call attention to their beliefs, cause chaos, and very often commit acts of violence under the misguided notions that their causes are justified and would find widespread acceptance by the American people. Very often, though, these extremists ultimately find themselves sharing prison cells"--...
Author
Series
Shadow man novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Santa Elena in 1985 is a sleepy, sedate town-that is, until unusual crimes start to occur. The body of a dog is left outside a Vietnamese grocery store. An encampment of Mexican strawberry pickers is brutally attacked with mysterious weapons. A wealthy real estate developer is found dead inside the pool of his beach-side house. When rat poison and other clues are found across these crime scenes, Detective Ben Wade and forensic expert Natasha Betencourt...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 14
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Kathy Reichs#́1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bonesŕeturns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring Americaś favorite forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"There's Something Happening Here looks inside the FBI's COINTELPROs against White Hate groups and the New Left to explore how agents dealt with the hundreds of individuals and organizations labeled as subversive threats. Rather than simply attributing these activities to the idiosyncratic concerns of longtime director J. Edgar Hoover, Cunningham focuses on the complex organizational dynamics that generated literally thousands of COINTELPRO actions.
His...
15) Hate groups
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of those groups, past and present, formed to promote the hatred of and violence against targeted minorities and explores ways to foster understanding and peaceful coexistence.
16) The second coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
By legitimizing bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands reexamination today.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Language
English
Description
"Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family."--Container.
Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white...
18) The fifth column
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war. February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the...
Author
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Media accounts to the contrary, the Alt-Right didn't just burst out of nowhere in 2016. They have been building their network quietly for years, using bulletin boards and social media to spread a toxic hybrid of technological utopianism, reactionary philosophy, and racial hatred. Wendling traces the rise of the movement and the evolution of its ideas, and he introduces us to some of its key figures. Exploring links between Alt-Right rhetoric and hate...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show - already regarded as the "the leading...