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Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A graphic novel trilogy based on the life of civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
According to legend, frontiersman Davy Crockett could lick his weight in wildcats and died at the Alamo only after killing hundreds of enemy soldiers. Did he always wear a coonskin cap and buckskins? Or was he just an ordinary man, a hunter and politician who usually dressed in everyday clothes and died like any other ordinary man at the Alamo? Find out in this book, which seeks to separate fact from fiction while exploring the life and death of one...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life - and his family's - as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. A moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding...
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about the late American politician and civil rights activist John Lewis"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A champion of equal rights who helped create a better future for all Americans, this biography of the first Asian American woman elected to Congress showed how she carved her own path to become a historic trailblazer.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of John Roy Lynch, one of the first African-Americans elected into the United States Congress"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
565 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former vice president of the United States reflects on his influential tenure in a memoir which also includes details from his personal life.
15) March: Book two
Author
Series
March volume 2
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also includes interviews with political leaders, colleagues, and...
18) The fabulist: the lying, hustling, grifting, stealing, and very American legend of George Santos
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers, Atria, an imprint of Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Newsday alum and PEN/Hemingway honoree tells the full story of U.S. Representative George Santos, a charlatan and con-artist who has embedded himself in our nation's capital.
19) Shirley Chisholm
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ready-to-read level 3 biography of Shirley Chisholm, who, in 1972 became the first African-American woman to enter the Democratic presidential race in the United States"--
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