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1. The Current war

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Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Tells the story of the competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over whose electric power delivery system will be used in the electrification of America.

2. War and peace in the global village: an inventory of some of the current spastic situations that could be eliminated by more feedforward

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Author:
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980
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English
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3. War of the Currents

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Author:
McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino
Series:
Scientific Rivalries and Scandals
Publisher:
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
Lerner Publishing Group
Lexile measure:
1060L
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English
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In the early 1880's, only a few wealthy people had electric lighting in their homes. Everyone else had use more dangerous lighting, such as gas lamps. Eager companies wanted to be the first to supply electricity to more Americans. The early providers would set the standards-and reap great profits. Inventor Thomas Edison already had a leading role in the industry: he had invented the first reliable electrical lightbulb. By 1882 his Edison Electric...

4. Pen-pictures of the war: Lyrics, incidents, and sketches of the rebellion; comprising a choice selection of pieces by our best poets. To which is added, current and well authenticated anecdotes and...

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Author:
Bill, Ledyard, 1836-1907
Publisher:
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date:
[2021]
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English
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Facsimile reproduction of Ledyard Bill's historical anthology of Civil War remembrances consisting of poetry and song lyrics, "anecdotes, incidents and pictures of the war", and a chronological list of the "Great battles and record of events".

5. American war medals and decorations. -

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Author:
Kerrigan, Evans E.
Series:
Studio book
Publisher:
Viking Press
Pub. Date:
[1964]
Language:
English
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6. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Simon and Schuster classics
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

7. The Camel Club

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Author:
Baldacci, David
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Camel Club
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The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.

8. Ant-Man and the Wasp

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Set after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp functions as an origin story. Dr. Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, sends Scott Lang on a mission to run down information about Pym's earliest exploits. Most importantly, Pym wants to know whether his original superhero partner, The Wasp, is still alive. At the same time, Lang, the current Ant-Man, has to make the life balance between being a superhero and a dad work.

9. The leviathan

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Author:
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Great books in philosophy
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Penguin classics
Lexile measure:
1470L
Language:
English
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From the publisher. After the publication of his masterpiece of political theory, Leviathan, Or the Matter, and Power of Commonwealth Ecclesiastic and Civil, in 1651, opponents charged Thomas Hobbes with atheism and banned and burned his books. The English Parliament, in a search for scapegoats, even claimed that the theories found in Leviathan were a likely cause of the Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. For the modern reader, though, Hobbes...

10. Between the world and me

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Author:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
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"In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation,...

11. The soul of America: the battle for our better angels

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Meacham, Jon
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"The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists...

12. Under currents

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Author:
Roberts, Nora
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Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages...

13. Southern man: a novel

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Author:
Iles, Greg
Series:
[Penn Cage volume 7
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English
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"Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting--one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown...

14. The familiar

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Author:
Bardugo, Leigh
Series:
Thorndike Press large print top shelf
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English
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...

15. Shirley

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Series:
Penguin English library
Oxford world's classics
Complete Brontë Sisters Children's Collection
The Complete Bronte Sisters Children's Collection
Lexile measure:
600L
Language:
English
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Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations. Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert's brother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal...

16. Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned

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Author:
Davis, Kenneth C.
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Don't Know Much About
Lexile measure:
1270L
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English
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From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic anti-textbook-which includes a new preface by Davis-he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history.

17. The night manager

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Author:
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020
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With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has begun. In the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union, arms dealers and drug smugglers have risen to immense influence and wealth. The sinister master of them all is Richard Onslow Roper, the charming, ruthless Englishman whose operation seems untouchable. Slipping into this maze of peril is Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier and current night manager of a posh hotel in Zürich. Having learned...

18. Daughter of Moloka'i

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Author:
Brennert, Alan
Series:
Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
Moloka'i volume 2
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English
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"Alan Brennert's beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama--quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa--was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in...

19. Brave new world

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Author:
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
Series:
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Harper Perennial modern classics
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.

20. Mission to Paris

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Author:
Furst, Alan
Series:
Night Soldiers volume 12
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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Autumn 1939. In Paris, American motion picture producer Frederic Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish Republicans, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America -- who can travel across the continent freely -- Stahl could be very useful indeed
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