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Author
Series
Azaleah Lane volume 1
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Amazing Life of Azaleah Lane. Being the middle child isn’t always easy, but eight-year-old Azaleah Lane handles it with style, charm, and spunk!
--The Amazing Life of Azaleah Lane -- The Dramatic Life of Azaleah Lane -- The Scrumptious Life of Azaleah Lane --
162) Girl in blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Camelot.”—Washington Post Book World
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary...
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary...
164) Along came a spider
Series
Alex Cross novels volume Bk. 1
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dr. Alex Cross is back to work the case of a girl who was kidnapped from her Washington, D.C. school, a place where senators and diplomats send their children. Its up to Alex to profile the kidnapper and find the girl.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look at what the presidents chose to eat, how the food was...
166) On native soil
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
True story of the tragic events of 9/11, based on the Commission Report study. Features interviews with family members, John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Max Cleland.
167) We march
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.
168) I have a dream
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents illustrations and the text of the speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, in which he described his visionary dream of equality and brotherhood for humankind.
169) Pursuit
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
After rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan meets with the First Lady, the VIP is killed in a car accident in which Jessica manages to survive. When she suspects the accident was something else and she becomes the next target, she and experienced FBI agent Mark Ryan team up to uncover the plot behind the First Lady's murder.
170) Ali Cross
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Cross' son, Ali, is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?
173) The rumor game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to reinvent herself--but who can stop a dangerous rumor once...
174) The map of stories
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tilly Pages and her friend Oskar journey to Washington, D.C., where she wanders inside the books at the Library of Congress and they try to stop a nefarious plan with some powerful help.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined point in the future. It was a revolutionary march with its...
178) The secret detective
Author
Series
Ali Cross volume 3
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Ali Cross and his friends chase police cases while Ali is caught up in a debate about policing"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. "This is a clarion call to action for teens, by teens, and is moving and powerful."--Booklist, Starred Review Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gun-violence in...
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