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With the Us the People: Founding Documents e-Book, students will explore some of the significant documents that helped shaped America. This informational text looks at the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution – the important documents that have helped build a powerful nation. Breathe life into textbook pages with primary source materials! Students will gain a better understanding as...
90122) Schiele
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Français
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Egon Schiele
(Tulln, 1890 – Vienne,1918)
L'oeuvre d'Egon Schiele est tellement singulière qu'elle résiste à toute catégorisation. Admis à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Vienne dès l'âge de seize ans, ce fut un artiste extraordinairement précoce, dont le talent consommé pour le maniement de la ligne, plus que tout autre chose, conférait une tension expressive à toute son oeuvre. Profondément
convaincu de sa propre importance en tant qu'artiste,...
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The Caddo and Comanche were two of the largest American Indian groups living in Texas before European contact. This Spanish-translated nonfiction title explores the history of the Caddo and Comanche, how they adapted to European colonists and American settlers, and the impact they made on Texas history. The Hasinai, Kadohadacho, Natchitoches, Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, and Shoshone are some of the tribes that readers will discover through engaging...
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“A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa” is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson that covers his time spent in Samoa and details the political events that took place there during his time. The book provides a firsthand account of the Samoan civil war and the role that Europeans played in it, as well as the political and cultural influences that shaped Samoa during this time. It is a fascinating historical and cultural look at the events...
90125) The Rise of the Cities
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History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation....
90126) All About Korea
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**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner** There are now over 1. 5 million Korean-Americans living in the United States including 100,000 adopted children. All About Korea is perfect for educators and parents wishing to teach kids about this rich Asian culture. This Korean children's book is an excellent introduction to the culture and history of Korea. It highlights favorite games, foods, special holiday times, and after-school...
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On the surface, they are allies, two of the most powerful Democratic families on the political landscape, shaping American policy for years to come. Behind the scenes, they are bitter enemies, rivals fueled by great personal animosity.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein unveils the jealousy, hostility, and outright rancor that divide the Clintons and Obamas. Now, as the Clintons attempt to maneuver their way back into the White House,...
90128) Frida Kahlo
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Español
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Detrás de los retratos de Frida Kahlo se ocultan tanto la historia de su vida como la de su obra. Es precisamente esta combinación la que atrae al espectador. La obra de Frida es un testimonio de su vida. Pocas veces se puede aprender tanto acerca de un artista con sólo contemplar lo que él inscribe dentro del marco de sus cuadros. Frida Kahlo es sin lugar a dudas la ofrenda de México a la historia del arte. Tenía apenas dieciocho años cuando...
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Stories and photos that bring the people and places of Nova Scotia's historic past to life.
Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone, one a casualty of long-ago colonial warfare and the other a victim of misguided urban renewal.
In this fascinating book,...
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Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"On September 12, 1942, the RMS Laconia was attacked by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. What the Germans didn't know was that they had just attacked their allies: locked below decks on the British ship were nearly 1,800 Italian prisoners of war. When the Germans realized their mistake, they made the unprecedented decision to rescue all survivors regardless of their nationality, attempting to declare the waters...
90131) Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man
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This autobiographical novel of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon was first published in 1927. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a fond reminiscence of boyhood and adolescence set against the background of the author's rural English home. Full of the scent of leather and the huntsman cries on a frosty autumn morning, the scene is set as the world moves slowly towards war.
Sassoon's fluid, sensitive prose, the fine perceptions of the poet is...
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"Four weeks of a global pandemic. Three words. Two sisters. One behind-the-scenes story of it all. A unique lens onto a crisis that has gripped the world for months now, and into the private life and decision-making process of a Canadian woman who has emerged as an international figure both for her humanity in the face of suffering, and her acumen and decisiveness as her policies succeeded where so many others failed. It is the behind-the-scenes story...
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) is the autobiography of Mary Seacole. Recognized for her pioneering healthcare work for soldiers and citizens around the world, Seacole was also the first Black Briton to publish an autobiographical work. Although Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands underwent editing by an anonymous person, it is a first-person account of Seacole's experiences during outbreaks of cholera, malaria,...
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"A Beginner's Guide to Chinese Brush Painting teaches this ancient art form in an easy-to-understand way - no prior experience necessary! As one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world, Chinese brush painting has been used for thousands of years to create images that harness the imagination, and capture the inner spirit of a subject - be it an animal, landscape or tree. All you need for this simple, but beautiful, art form is black...
90135) The Yankee Years
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Books on Tape
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A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre’s twelve years as manager of the New York Yankees.
Joe Torre is the most successful–and most respected–baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships. When he left the team in 2007, it was front-page news around the country. Famously diplomatic during his tenure with the Yankees, Torre finally speaks...
Joe Torre is the most successful–and most respected–baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships. When he left the team in 2007, it was front-page news around the country. Famously diplomatic during his tenure with the Yankees, Torre finally speaks...
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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax picks up where that book ended with this hard-hitting, well-reasoned examination of the latest findings about "collusion" between the Trump Administration and the Russians, offering further proof that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is nothing more than a politically motivated witch hunt.
How did a small group of powerful intelligence officials convince tens of millions...
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Random House Publishing Group
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English
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A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.
At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering...
At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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"From the palace cloisters of Istanbul to the blood-soaked fields of central Europe to the sun-scorched coast of north Africa, The Lion House pioneers a bold new style of eyewitness history to tell the true story of Suleyman the Magnificent, whose sixteenth-century reign over the Ottoman Empire saw power at its most glittering, personal, and deadly"--
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