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1. Racing the light: a novel

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Author:
Crais, Robert
Series:
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel volume 2
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel volume 19
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English
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4.5 stars
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"Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are back on the case in this brilliant new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais"--

2. Empires of light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to electrify the world

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Author:
Jonnes, Jill, 1952-
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English
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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age-Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse-battled as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the...

3. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought

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Author:
Rogers, Melvin L.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject America's democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have...

4. The electric war: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the race to light the world

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Author:
Winchell, Mike
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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"The riveting nonfiction account of the scientific competition to light the world with electricity."--

5. Let's race!: sprinting into the science of light speed with special relativity

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Author:
Ferrie, Chris
Series:
Everyday science academy
Publisher:
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date:
2020
Lexile measure:
610L
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English
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"Time flies when you're having fun! So why does it go so slowly when you're not? Red Kangaroo wants to know and Dr. Chris has the answers-it's all a matter of special relativity! Dr. Chris teaches Red Kangaroo all about how we can play with time-and how time plays with us-in this installment of the Everyday Science Academy series. In this new series, Chris Ferrie answers all the questions Red Kangaroo has about what things are made of and how things...

6. Light for the world to see: a thousand words on race and hope

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Author:
Alexander, Kwame
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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English
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Kwame Alexander presents a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events.

7. Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz

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Author:
Sandke, Randall
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet" tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination, or is it more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture? This book does not question that jazz was created and largely driven by African Americans, but rather...

8. Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz

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Author:
Sandke, Randy
Series:
Studies in jazz volume no. 60
Publisher:
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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9. Valley Of Light

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Author:
Race, Hugo
Publisher:
Laneway Music
Pub. Date:
1996
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English
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10. The berry pickers: a novel

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Author:
Peters, Amanda
Series:
Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama
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English
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"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...

11. Avatar

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Academy Award Nominee 2009
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Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...

12. Arthur the king

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"Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. Follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory,...

13. Passing

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Author:
Larsen, Nella
Series:
Penguin classics
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HL: High-Low 810L
Language:
English
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Irene Redfield, married to a successful physician, enjoys a comfortable life in Harlem, New York. Reluctantly, she renews her friendship with old school friend, Clare Kendry. Clare, who like Irene is light skinned, "passes" as white and is married to a racist white man who has no idea about his wife's racial heritage. Clare is very persuasive and Irene, despite misgivings, can't resist letting her back into her world. As tensions mount between friends...

14. The city of Ember

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Author:
DuPrau, Jeanne
Series:
Ember volume 1
Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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In the city of Ember, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

15. Obsessed

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Author:
Patterson, James, 1947-
Series:
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 15
Language:
English
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When a killer becomes obsessed with his oldest daughter, Detective Michael Bennett will do anything to keep his family safe as he races against time to crack this superstitious killer's code.

16. James: a novel

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Everett, Percival
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

17. The return

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Author:
Sparks, Nicholas
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HL: High-Low 830L
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a moving new novel about an injured army doctor and the two women whose secrets will change the course of his life. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather...

18. The time machine

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Author:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Gollancz 50 collection
SF masterworks
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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In this hugely influential groundbreaking work of science fiction, a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The Time Traveller finds imself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear--the...

19. The light we carry: overcoming in uncertain times

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Author:
Obama, Michelle, 1964-
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English
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"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...

20. The last patriot: a thriller

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Author:
Thor, Brad
Series:
Scot Harvath volume 7
Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.
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