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Born in a workhouse, Oliver Twist, an orphan, walks to London where he gets involved with Fagin and his gang of young thieves.

2) 500 years later

Pub. Date

2008

Description

Filmed in five continents, this documentary film chronicles the struggles of people of African descent throughout the globe as they strive for basic freedoms and self-determination.

3) The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl

Author

Egan, Timothy

Formats

Description

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award - winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding...

4) Pity the billionaire: the hard times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right

Author

Frank, Thomas

Formats

Description

A look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism.

5) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Penguin drop caps

Formats

Description

Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, Large Print

A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman.

6) Mrs. Everything: a novel

Author

Weiner, Jennifer

Pub. Date

2019.

Formats

Description

Step into reading step 4
Step into reading. Step 4 book
Biography reader

"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world"--

7) Ghosts of India

Author

Morris, Mark

Series

Doctor Who

Publisher

BBC

Pub. Date

2008

8) Malala: a hero for all

Author

Corey, Shana

Series

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[2016]

Description

This Step 4 Biography Reader shares the inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

9) One summer: America, 1927

Author

Bryson, Bill

Formats

Book, Audiobook

Description

Bryson examines closely the events and personalities of the summer of 1927 when America's story was one of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy.

10) The perks of being a wallflower

Author

Chbosky, Stephen

Publisher

Gallery Books

Pub. Date

2012

Description

A story about what it's like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high school; the world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends; of sex, drugs, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

11) Big, hot, cheap, and right: what America can learn from the strange genius of Texas

Author

Grieder, Erica

Formats

Description

Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's politics and attitude. And yet, according to journalist (and Texan) Grieder, the United States has a great deal to learn from Texas.

12) The Great Depression: America in the 1930s

Author

Watkins, T. H

Publisher

Back Bay

Pub. Date

c2010

13) Somebody told me: the newspaper stories of Rick Bragg

Author

Bragg, Rick

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Pub. Date

c2000

14) $2.00 a day: living on almost nothing in America

Author

Edin, Kathryn J

Formats

Description

"After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't seen since before -- households surviving on virtually no cash income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to 1.5 million American households, including about 3 million children. Through the book's many...

15) Women in early Texas

Publisher

Texas State Historical Association

Pub. Date

c1994

16) The Salem witch trials: a day-by-day chronicle of a community under siege

Author

Roach, Marilynne K

Formats

Description

Based on twenty-seven years of original archival research, including the discovery of previously unknown documents, this day-by-day narrative of the hysteria that swept through Salem Village in 1692 and 1693 reveals new connections behind the events, and shows how rapidly a community can descend into bloodthirsty madness. Roach opens her work with chapters on the history of the Puritan colonies of New England, and explains how these people regarded...

17) Rainwater

Author

Brown, Sandra

Formats

eAudiobook, Large Print

Description

Ella Barron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship's captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. But when a room in her boarding house opens up and the respected town doctor, Dr. Kincaid, brings Ella a new boarder-the handsome and gallant Mr. David Rainwater-Ella is immediately resistant to opening up her home to this mysterious stranger. Soon, this strong-minded, independent woman will realize that the living that she has eked out...

18) Middle school makeover: improving the way you and your child experience the middle school years

Author

Icard, Michelle

Formats

Description

"Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help tweens navigate their middle school years"--

19) Pakistan: a hard country

Author

Lieven, Anatol

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest...

20) The folded earth

Author

Roy, Anuradha

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Description