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1) Never
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Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
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Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns...
4) The Obamas
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English
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Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House as the Obamas try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the first black President and First Lady.
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He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career. She was a contract player at MGM, unmarried and rapidly growing too old to play the starlet. It was time, she decided, to settle down and become Mrs. Somebody Important. So, Nancy Davis contrived an introduction to Ronald Reagan, and the Reagans march into history began.
“The Reagans: Portrait...
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English
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"Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private meeting with the President and his Chief of Staff without any witnesses. But she couldn't have predicted that she'd be forced to take on an investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the First Lady with strict orders to keep it a secret. The First Lady's absence comes in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Follows the life of John Quincy Adams from his childhood in Massachusetts through his term as the sixth president of the United States and into his post-White House years, and includes photographs and illustrations, a time line and glossary, articles on key events that influenced Adams, and other reference materials.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Looks at what the presidents to be who were alive at various dates were doing at that moment, including serving in government, working in different fields, studying, or being a child, and wonders what the future presidents that are alive today are doing.
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The presidency of Donald Trump marks a profound change in the trajectory of American government, politics, and culture. Like his administration, the movement that put him in office represents a phenomenon that is worth studying.
Donald Trump is unlike any president we've ever had. He is the only person ever elected to be commander in chief who has not first held public office or served as a general in the military. His principles grow out of five...
12) Absolute power
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English
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In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president—a man who believes he can get away with anything.
In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in artist Luther Whitney is trapped behind a two-way mirror. What he witnesses destroys his faith not only in justice, but in...
In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in artist Luther Whitney is trapped behind a two-way mirror. What he witnesses destroys his faith not only in justice, but in...
13) U.S. presidents
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Kingfisher
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English
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Profiles the presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama, and includes facts and trivia about each president, including major achievements and personality quirks.
17) Laura Bush
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of former First Lady Laura Bush in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help young readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a table of contents, author biography, timeline, glossary, index, and other informative backmatter"--
18) Presidents' Day
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperback
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Aladdin pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In February, the first-graders in Mrs. Connor's class present facts about the presidents.
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English
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Follows the life of Ronald Reagan from his childhood in Illinois through his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States and into his post-White House years, and includes photographs and illustrations, a time line and glossary, articles on key events that influenced Reagan, and other reference materials.
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