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When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
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Berkley
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[2022]
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"On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast, a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small. One of those arriving at that beach is a woman abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having escaped,...
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Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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The author posits that "it is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and first-hand reporting, Frank [concludes] that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals:...
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Hope volume 3
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While running for sixth grade class president, Hope Roberts finds herself making promises she cannot keep as she tries to win over her classmates.
10) The Frandidate
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Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 7
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Determined to be elected class president, mad scientist Frannie K. Stein uses her Atomic Combiner to create a suit that makes her seem to be whatever a voter wants her to be, but the suit has plans of its own.
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Captain Awesome volume 20
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
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Eugene runs for second-grade class president against Meredith Mooney, but must find a way to prove he is best for the job without revealing either of their secret identities.
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[Poplar kids] volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
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Clover O'Reilly, who struggles to be heard in her large family, and comedy magician Mike the Unusual, who only feels confident onstage, compete to become Poplar Middle School's seventh-grade class president.
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Questioneers volume 4
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Sofia is put in charge of overseeing a fair election for a class pet, but first the Questioneers must learn about elections and good journalism--and remember that being a community matters most. Includes facts about the Delano Grape Strike, presidential elections, journalism, and the importance of voting.
15) Yes no maybe so
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Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
16) Where I belong
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"Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--
17) Hero
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
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Harper
Pub. Date
2021.
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Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House, and the decisions leading up...
19) Vote for Minnie
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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Minnie is running for President of the Adventurers Club and she's enlisted all her friends to help with her campaign. Get out the vote and learn fun election facts in this Level 2 reader that comes with a quiz at the end of the book.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
c2014
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A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial social reforms and labor improvements they contributed.
"Historian Terry Golway has written a colorful history of Tammany Hall, which takes a more sympathetic view of the organization than many historians. He says the Tammany machine, while often corrupt,...
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