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On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in eighty-one minutes in Tattnall Prison's electric chair. The executions were a record for the state that still stands today. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to be a sign of progress. They were anything but. While those men were arrested, convicted, sentenced, and executed...
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"London in the 1920s is no place for a woman with a mind of her own. Gang wars, violence, and an unforgiving world have left pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambling to survive in The Mint, the gritty neighborhood her family has run for generations. When her father goes to jail yet again and her scam artist brother finds himself in debt to the dangerous McDonald crime syndicate, Alice takes over. Fighting for power at every turn, she struggles to protect...
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Leafgate Publishing LLC
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2018.
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vi, 245 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"It's 1904; Hattie's last year of finishing school.She hates it and would rather be a pioneer. Her chance comes when Earl proposes marriage along with a homestead in Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory. We share her struggles; living in near poverty while keeping the homestead going. She falls ill and is about to give birth when Rosalinda enters her life as her caretaker. Soon they find an attraction to each other that neither fully understands or dares...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"On December 7, 1941--"a date which will live in infamy"--the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans...
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Little, Brown
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2009
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xv, 410 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and hindsight bias, and why...
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