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Chicago Review Press
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English
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Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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"There may be no other novel in American history as significant as Uncle Tom's Cabin. A feat of gripping storytelling - the first American work of fiction to become an international best seller - no other book so effectively expressed the moral case against the "peculiar institution" of slavery."
"This volume features a new introduction by Charles Johnson, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and winner of the National Book Award for his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.4 - AR Pts: 52
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English
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"Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but...
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Religion in America early books and manuscripts volume reel 1, no. 4
Library of American civilization volume LAC 40121
Library of American civilization volume LAC 40121
Pub. Date
1863
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English
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English
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This collection of Emerson's essays covers the contents of two volumes originally published in 1841 and 1844. Annotation. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here is a collection of his classic essays, including the exhortation to "Self-Reliance"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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A stirring account of America's vanished past... The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer... Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This definitive edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the world's best-loved books, was the first version since the original publication to be based directly on the author's manuscript. It includes all of the '200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this...
11) The Rough Riders
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In 1898, at the start of the Spanish-American War, three regiments of volunteer American soldiers were formed to go to war. The most celebrated of them, the 1st United States Volunteer Calvary, also known as "The Rough Riders," was led by Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. A motley crew of cowboys and Ivy League scholars, the Rough Riders were hastily trained and thrown into battle in less-than-ideal circumstances. This is Roosevelt's eyewitness...
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Religion in America early books and manuscripts volume reel 41, no. 7-reel 42, no. 1
Library of American civilization volume LAC 21059-60
Library of American civilization volume LAC 21059-60
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C. Scribner
Pub. Date
1901
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The adventures of a dog, stolen from his California ranch home, sold to traders, and trained to become a sled dog during the the Alaska Gold Rush. He eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack and undertakes an incredible journey.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honour.
For the next...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 65
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English
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This novel tracks the process by which an ordinary young man is capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest. In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, we see a portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence.
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Boy Scouts of America service library. Series B volume no. 3108
Publisher
Boy scouts of America
Pub. Date
c1930
Language
English