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The Jacket
by Andrew Clements
Thief! When Phil sees another kid wearing his brother's jacket, he assumes the jacket was stolen. It turns out he was wrong, and Phil has to ask himself the question: Would he have made the same assumption if the boy wearing the jacket hadn't been African American? And that question leads to others that reveal some unsettling truths about Phil's neighborhood, his family, and even himself.
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Homestretch
by Paul Volponi
HOMESTRETCH By: Paul Volponi Colby HugginsHome stretch is a book about Gas struggling with his dad. There is abusive relationship with him and his dad. I would call this book a real life book.Gas is the main character and his dad Giambonco Jr. They... (more)
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Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so... (more)
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Mismatch
by Lensey Namioka
Sue Hua just moved from racially diverse Seattle to a suburban white-bread town where she feels like the only Asian American for miles. Then she meets Andy, a handsome and passionate violin player who happens to be Asian American. Sue feels an instant attraction to Andy, and her white friends think they’re “made for each other”–after all, they both use chopsticks and eat a lot of rice, right? But there’s just one... (more)
Como Te Va? Intro, Nivel Rojo (Glencoe Middle School Spanish)Conrad J. Schmitt
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Como Te Va? Intro, Nivel Rojo (Glencoe Middle School Spanish)
by Conrad J. Schmitt
The Teacher Wraparound Edition is designed to make teaching the Como Te Va? text easier. Pages preceding each group of five lessons include teaching tips, information, and strategies, such as: Previews that allow teachers to see at a glance what the students will learn in the lesson; a Resource Manager which shows what resources are needed for each lesson; Presentations give step-by-step instructions for teaching;... (more)
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Finest Years
Churchill as Warlord 1940-45
by Max Hastings
Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before.
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Holy Book of Adolf Hitler
THE BOOK OF ARYAN WISDOM AND LAWS
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Tales of Finnegus Boggs--Billy and Tyron
by j. cafesin
Ferrari Testarossa is his 'lamp.' Mr. Boggs has been a Somalian warrior, an Egyptian scribe, a Cambridge professor. In 2010 he's a doctor, and never in his over 5,000 yrs had he been forced from his lamp at gunpoint. Billy opened his car door, stuck a gun in his face and ordered Finnegus from his home to stitch up his best bud, Tyron, who'd been recently shot in a liquor store robbery. Only a Marid Djinn genie... (more)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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The Imperial Cruise
A Secret History of Empire and War
by James Bradley
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's name. In 2005, a century later,... (more)
The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book
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The Negro-The Southerner's Problem (Notable American Authors)
by Thomas Nelson Page
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because... (more)
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Zlata's Diary
A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
by Zlata Filipovic
When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-to-day record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata... (more)
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The Skin I'm In
by Sharon G. Flake
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves... (more)
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White Power
by George Lincoln Rockwell
Facsimile printing of George Lincoln Rockwell's appraisal of the United States' race problems. Natl Vanguard Books
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Red Zone
The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling
by Aphrodite Jones
It was the shocking news story that electrified the nation, the fatal California dog mauling of former athlete and popular coach Diane Alexis Whipple, killed right outside the door of her plush Pacific Heights apartment. New York Times bestselling true crime author Aphrodite Jones offers a riveting, page-turning account of the brutal attack and the arrest and trial of Whipple’s neighbors, married lawyers... (more)
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had... (more)
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Sweet Bird of Youth
by Tennessee Williams
The acclaimed classic in a new edition, now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original foreword and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based. Sometime actor and full-time male hustler Chance Wayne returns to the Gulf Coast town of St. Cloud in an attempt to retrieve his lost innocence by reuniting with his high school girlfriend, Heavenly Finley. But Chance arrives... (more)
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Jackie Robinson (Black Americans of Achievement (Econo-Clad))
by Richard Scott
Gr 6 Up The life of Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in the National League, is presented along with black - and - white photographs depicting events from his successes. A forward by Coretta Scott King and a chronology, along with the accurate and smooth flowing text, provide insights into Robinson's personal and professional struggles to succeed. Dialogue and description provide glimpses into his... (more)
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Another Kind of Monday
by William E. Coles
When Mark borrows a copy of Great Expectations from the school library, he finds, concealed between two pages, an envelope containing three crisp one-hundred dollar bills.There is also a note mysterious but intriguing, that invites the finder to embark on a quests. If Mark can puzzle out the meaning of a series of enigmatic verse clues meant to lead him on a treasure hunt around his hometown of Pittsburgh, then,... (more)