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Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
President John F. Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas when a gunman fired from a window of a nearby building. Stunned onlookers ran for cover as the president's driver sped toward the hospital. The young leader could not survive his terrible wounds, meaning Lyndon Johnson would take over as president. Police quickly tracked down Kennedy's killer, but his troubling background and puzzling behavior raised questions that seemed...
342) Ballistic
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
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"After he was betrayed by his compatriots and then forced to take on a near-suicidal covert mission by the CIA, master assassin Court Gentry thought he could find refuge off the grid, living in self-imposed isolation in the Amazonian rain forest. But even there, his bloody past finds him when a vengeful Russian crime lord forces him to go on the run once again. Without a country or a home to call his own, Court's options are narrow enough, but when...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Journalist Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. The book begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently demands answers about the assassination of his brother, then shifts back in time, revealing the shadowy conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration, pitting the young president and his even younger brother...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008], c 2007
Description
1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's 400 career missions included attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips. It culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Now O'Neill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his impulsive decision to join the SEALs; the arduous evaluation and training process; and the even tougher...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, meant to herald the twentieth century, went tragically, spectacularly, awry. In 1901, Buffalo, New York, the eighth biggest city in America, wanted to launch the new century with the Pan American Exposition. It would showcase the Western hemisphere and bring millions of people to western New York. With Niagara Falls as a drawing card and with stunning colors and electric lights, promoters believed it would...
351) A golden grave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
Rose Gallagher's life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted, And she's been recruited to an elite unit dedicated to cases of a paranormal nature. This means spending her days alongside the dashing Thomas Wiltshire. When a new case arrives on Rose's doorstep, she jumps at the chance to prove herself. Six delegates have been murdered at a local political convention, and the police have no idea who-- or what-- is...
352) A mighty heart
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Jewish-American journalist, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The violent act became an international scandal as the group that claimed responsibility for the crime demanded the liberation of prisoners from the American detainee prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The American government does not give in to the terrorists' demands. Mariane travels to Pakistan and is alone, searching for the most important person in her life....
353) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
354) 11.22.63
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When teacher Jake Epping discovers a time portal that leads to October 21, 1960, he travels to the past in an attempt to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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