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1) Age of vice
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New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic action-packed story...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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"New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story...
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Montague siblings volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Hoping to travel to Germany to ask for help enrolling in medical school, Felicity has no money for the trip until a mysterious woman offers to travel with her and pay her way, which ends up entangling Felicity in a perilous quest across Europe.
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Senator Kamala Harris is known as a tough prosecutor. She made history as the first Black and Indian woman to lead a major ticket. Follow her fight to the White House!"-- provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Former Vice President Joe Biden played an essential role in the Obama administration. Follow his career from Delaware's longest-serving senator to his race back to the White House"-- provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million pictures, postcards, and books he judged to be obscene. But as Amy Werbel shows in this rich cultural and social history, Comstock's campaign to rid America...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of single mother, a cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better education. She and her husband, an accomplished economist from Jamaica, split up when Kamala was only five. The Kamala Harris the public knows is tough, smart, and demanding, and longtime...
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My weird school daze volume 6
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
When the new vice principal is put in charge of Ella Mentry School for a few days, she tries out some very unusual ideas about how students learn.
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English
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"In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his...
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Gallagher girls volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if you're a Gallagher Girl, 'exciting' and 'deadly' are never far apart.
12) Monster problems
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Series
Time villains volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Finistere's stern acting principal, Ms. Vlad, invites Mr. Dragon to be her vice-principle, the students immediately adore him, but unbeknownst to them, he is nefariously planning to take over the world, and it is up to Javi to stop him before it is too late.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The marble halls of the Federal Reserve have always held secrets; for decades the Fed did the utmost to preserve its room to maneuver, operating behind the scenes as much as possible. Yet over the past two decades, this elite world of bankers and economists speaking a language that only monetary experts could understand has been forced to change its ways. Amid rising inequality, weakening global economic prospects, and a pandemic, the central bank...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The former "Vice" journalist and producer of the Netflix documentary, "Fyre," presents a revelatory examination of the con-artists, grifters, and scammers of the digital age that outlines recommendations for protecting consumers.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Through stories illustrating our vice president's character, ... bestselling author Charlotte Pence offers the most important lessons she has learned by her father's example of love, loyalty, and faith. Tracing the Pences' journey to Capitol Hill, to the Indiana governor's office, and to the White House, Charlotte reveals her favorite memories from childhood and being raised in a political family. Charlotte accompanied her parents during one hundred...
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores his sexuality. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The Gentleman's Gide to Vice and Virtue.--
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kamala Harris is one of our country's most awe-inspiring political figures, dawning on a new age as the first but not last Black and Asian-American female Vice President. Having spent her entire career smashing glass ceilings and influencing the next generation of young women, Harris has completely redefined what it means to be a woman in politics.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to defend the rights of people everywhere and be named the Democratic vice presidential candidate by Joe Biden in this moving picture book biography of Senator Kamala Harris. When Kamala Harris was young, she often accompanied her parents to civil rights marchesso many, in fact, that when her mother asked a frustrated Kamala what she wanted, the young girl responded...
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