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Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A biography of the son of the thirty-fifth president of the United States, discussing his toddler days in the White House, "America's Most Eligible Batchelor," the launching of his political magazine "George," and his death in an airplane crash at the age of thirty-eight.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce is traveling with his family to Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. In an instant, their train runs off the rails, violently flinging passengers about the cabin. When the great iron machine finally comes to rest, the only casualty is the Pierces’ son, Bennie. The loss sends First Lady Jane Pierce into mourning, and casts Franklin’s presidency under a pall of sorrow and grief.
As the Pierces...
Author
Series
Jack McClure novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Homeland Security agent Jack McClure sets out to save 23-year-old Alli Carson after she's accused of murdering her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Alli, who's training to be an FBI special ops agent, must escape from the clutches of her uncle, Henry Holt Carson, who has ties to a lengthy list of criminals engaged in dirty deeds ranging from a burgeoning trade in sex slaves to causing the recent financial meltdown in the U.S.
66) Lockout
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
67) First kid
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
A Secret Service agent is assigned to protect the President's rebellious son, Luke. Friendship develops betweeen the two when the agent teaches Luke how to deal with a school bully. The fun and games end when Luke is kidnapped.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief, fictionalized account of what life was like for Theodore Roosevelt during his political career, with his oldest daughter, Alice, a strong-willed and somewhat wild young woman, who loved to do things that shocked the public, even when she lived in the White House.
69) First daughter
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Description
Samantha just wants a normal college experience away from her parents. The problem is her dad is the President of the United States!
70) George W. Bush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Profiles the life of the Texas governor, incluidng his childhood, education, involvement in the military, personal life, and campaign for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination.
71) First daughter
Author
Series
Jack McClure novels volume 1
Formats
Description
When a terrible accident takes the life of his only daughter, Emma, and his marriage falls apart, ATF agent Jack McClure blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from his old friend Edward Carson. Carson is just weeks from taking the reins as President of the United States when his daughter, Alli, is kidnapped. Because Emma McClure was once Alli's best friend, Carson turns to Jack, the one man he can...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers another dramatic look into the lives of the Kennedys-including new details about JFK Jr., his relationship with his mother, his many girlfriends, and the night of his tragic death. Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master of celebrity biographies-boasting sixteen bestsellers, among them These Few Precious Days , Mick , and William and Kate. Now, in his latest thrilling book, new...
Author
Series
Sally Hemings series volume 2
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The life of Harriet Hemings, daughter of President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, his slave and mistress. Passing for white because of her light skin and red hair, Harriet is tormented by the thought that her husband could be jailed and her children sold into slavery if the truth of her race came out. By the author of Echo of Lions.
76) Father night
Author
Series
Jack McClure novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Formats
Description
When reform efforts in the Middle East culminate in a violent power struggle between two criminal underworld bosses, Jack McClure finds himself at the center of a multi-national uprising that is complicated by powerful enemies.
Author
Formats
Description
In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein creates a vivid portrait of two emblematic American families. Their journey to the White House is a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal, which stretches from the Gilded Age through Nazi-occupied Poland to the rising nationalism and inequality of the twenty-first century.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and over 100,000 pages of documents, many previously unseen...
80) George W. Bush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides an overview of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.