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In 2030, America is broke. When NASA is forced to raffle off a trip to outer space and the orbiting Houston Astrodome, Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty, the ticket is won by a guy, from Cleveland who is so fat he can't make it out of his own house, let alone get crammed in a rocket ship. Instead, he auctions the ticket off, and the winning bid belongs to the patriarch of the Van Kruup family, an American dynasty founded on coal, railroads,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
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An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
3) Just Mercy
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Warner Bros Entertainment Inc
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"World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner"-- IMDb.
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