Showing 1–24 of 24 books
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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston's survival story of his devastating hike through a southeastern canyon in Utah in 2001.
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Dramatic account of E Company of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army through the European theater during WWII.
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Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Jewish resistance groups throughout Europe organize retaliation against Germany during World War II.
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation.
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
After creating a list of the pros and cons of marriage, science-minded Charles Darwin chooses to marry his strictly religious first cousin. Little does he know that he is about to embark upon the most loving, creative, and intellectually important relationship of his life.
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and Murder of a President
A president, an assassin, and an inventor are brought together in this little known historical event.
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family living in Amsterdam who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
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The Dumbest Idea Ever!
This is the real-life story of how the DUMBEST idea ever became the BEST thing that ever happened to Jimmy Gownley.
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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
Oral histories from 50 African Americans who were children and teens in the Deep South during the 1950s-1960s.
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
The ups and downs of a beloved hometown high school football team from Odessa, Texas.
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Frozen in Time LP: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Bodies of World War II airmen who crashed in Greenland in 1942 are reclaimed in a 2012 expedition.
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George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War
An account of espionage, counter-espionage, codes, and ciphers during the American Revolution.
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
This empowering memoir recounts the strength and creativity of the Walls children as they overcome the poverty and social challenges their parents brought upon them.
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The story of Malala's fight for education.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Only a handful of people have stood atop Everest. Krakauer is one of them, but the story he tells here is not of glorious triumph. Rather, it is a true account of survival and death that will grab YA readers from the very first page. Krakauer had a front-row seat to the headline-making 1996 climbing disaster that resulted in the deaths of five people, and his account of the unfolding tragedy, filled with keenly observed details, is not only a transfixing drama but also an inquiry into survivor guilt and the outer limits of human strength and responsibility.
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Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders, 18881889
A graphic novel recounting of the Whitechapel murders of 1888.
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
A son's attempt to come to grips with his father's experiences of living through the Holocaust.
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My Friend Dahmer
A high school friend creates a graphic novel memoir based on his association with the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
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Phineas Gage: a Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science
The story and the science of how a man lived 10 years after a tamping iron shot through his head and brain.
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The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir
A high school student pretends to be pregnant for her senior project in order to break down stereotypes.
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Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family
How do you accept yourself and your beliefs when they differ from your family's? Hartzler's memoir of growing up gay in a house where his parents believed the Rapture could happen any moment is funny, honest, and respectful of the idea that being yourself doesn't mean disrespecting or undermining others.
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Three Little Words
A young girl is taken away from her biological mother and lives with fourteen different foster care families before she's adopted by a loving family.
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Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
This moving, exciting history of the 1912 disaster reads like an action movie with cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. The additional material, ranging from the only surviving photos of the inside of the boat during its journey to diagrams and timelines to accounts of what happened to the survivors afterwards, is exhaustive and meticulously researched.
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Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty
The life, death and aftermath of an eleven-year-old gangbanger, based on a true tragedy.