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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton?s tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A secret buried for centuries.
Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine years, King Tut suddenly perished, his name purged from Egyptian history. To this day, his death remains shrouded in controversy.
The keys to an unsolved mystery.
Enchanted...
4) Spare
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English
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"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great--in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years--is the coveted prize for a cunning despot unless Cotton Malone, former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer, can beat her to it.
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English
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After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many convinced that the Amazon was...
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Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing the subjugation of North Plains Native Americans.
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Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2018].
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English
Description
Why is "What's my line? TV star and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, one of the most feared journalists in history? Why has her threatened exposure of the truth about the JFK assassination triggered a cover-up by at least four government agencies and resulted in abuse of power at the highest levels? "Denial of justice", written in the spirit of bestselling author Mark Shaw's gripping true crime murder mystery. The...
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It is a moment that remains frozen in history. When the Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales, spun fatally out of control in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris in August 1997, the world was shocked by what appeared to be a terrible accident.
But two decades later, the circumstances surrounding what really happened that night-and, crucially, why it happened-remain mired in suspicion, controversy, and misinformation. Until now. Dylan Howard has...
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English
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"Reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing not only the final battles of World War II and the collapse of the Wehrmacht, but the near-total disintegration of the once-mighty...
11) Diana: 7 days
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BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This landmark documentary features in-depth interviews with her sons, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, speaking in detail about that week's events from the moment they heard the news of their mother's death to the day of the funeral itself, as well as reflecting more broadly on her life and what she meant to them both then and now. The film includes other family members, close friends, political figures and journalists, many of them speaking...
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Just before sunset on September 20, 1955, James Byron Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder collided with Donald Gene Turnupseed's Ford Tudor on California Highway 46. At age twenty-four, America's newest screen idol was dead. But what really happened? Drawing on original documents, including the coroner's inquest and other previously unpublished material, author Warren Newton Beath provides a painstakingly accurate reconstruction of Dean's final hours and tragic...
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Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself? On the morning of August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, jet-setting consigliere and friend to the rich and powerful, was found unresponsive in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan where he awaited his second trial for sexual predation and other crimes. He was rushed to a local hospital and one hour later pronounced dead. The coroner's verdict? Suicide. But cracks in the official...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen. Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has decided at last to tell her stoyr--a story of familyintrigues, shocking secrets, forbidden loves and maybe even murder...--Page 4 of cover.
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English
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In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.
“This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you....”
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called the memoir that was the basis for the...
“This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you....”
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called the memoir that was the basis for the...
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English
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In January 1923, twenty-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the dancer's barely clad body washed up on Torrey Pines beach, her party dress and possessions strewn about the sand. The scene baffled investigators, and a botched autopsy created more questions than it answered. However, the investigation revealed a scandalous secret.
When a Hollywood...
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