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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.--encounter unexpected dangers.
62) Theodore Rex
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes Theodore Roosevelt's presidency as he faced the challenges of a new century in which the United States would become a world power, and discusses his accomplishments and failures, the enemies he made, and his family life.
Series
The reference shelf volume 80 no. 4
Publisher
H.W. Wilson Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 215 p. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's extraordinary life and career. Vice President Biden traveled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq....
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (420 min.): sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship of Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha.
66) First ladies
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Profiles and photographs reveal the impact that the presidents' wives had on the suffrage movement, prohibition, civil rights, equality, and war and peace.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novel volume 20
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he's encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America's institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington. Meanwhile, when Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the Agencys database for sensitive information on Nicholas Ward, the worlds first trillionaire, she convinces...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 782 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of the thirty-ninth president draws on fresh archival material to trace Jimmy Carter's improbable rise from a humble peanut farmer and complex man of faith to an American president and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.
72) Bill Clinton
Author
Series
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 184 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
73) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief overview of the life of the man who was President of the United States during the difficult years of the Civil War and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
74) Joe Steele
Author
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove's thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such intriguing "what-if" novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now "the maven of alternate history" (The San Diego Union-Tribune) envisions the election of a United States President whose political power will redefine what the nation is-and what it means to be American... President Herbert Hoover has failed America....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his spy school training, Ben Ripley is on his first solo mission of infiltrating the White House and stopping a possible presidential assassination, but when his assignment runs into trouble, he isn't sure he can trust his friends for help.
79) Split second
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over.
80) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief overview of the life of the third President.