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Author
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[1968]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
Author
Series
Frontiersman series volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Tennessee, 17-year-old Breckinridge Wallace knew the laws of nature. When his life was in danger, he showed a fearless instinct to fight back. Killing a thug who was sent to kill him got Breckinridge exiled from his Smoky Mountain home. Brutally wounding an Indian attacker earned him an enemy for life... Now, from the bustling streets of St. Louis to the vast stillness of the Missouri headwaters, Breckinridge is discovering a new world of splendor,...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history of the creation of the atom bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944. Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project, has discovered an alternate solution for creating the uranium isotope needed to cause a chain reaction: U-235. After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and...
Author
Series
Ellis Voigt novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Washington, DC, 1945. Lieutenant Ellis Voigt of the Office of Naval Intelligence is desperate to keep the secrets that threaten his life. The war overseas is going well for America, but Voigt can't escape a web of double-agents and undercover spies who follow his every move. The FBI suspects that he is the communist who murdered a Naval officer in a Washington back alley. The Soviets believe he's holding back information from their contacts, and they're...
Author
Publisher
Chickadee Hill Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship between a runaway slave named Crispus Attucks (Tucks) and Gabe, a sickly ten-year-old boy, is the thread the author uses to unravel the historical events that occurred on the eastern seaboard during the late 1700s, including: the Stamp Act, rioting by black and white laborers and seamen, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the role the Quakers had in abolishing slavery. As a bond forms between Tucks and Gabe, readers...
8) Atomic love
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
10) Rope burn
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jail mates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time - on a brutal prison chain gang... Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic...
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Language
English
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"Keynote From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker's Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption-a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician wife, he spends his postwar life seeking redemption-and they find it together. Internal Description...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
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