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Mountains Beyond Mountains

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This edition of Mountains Beyond Mountains by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder, adapted by Michael French, is the inspiring account of Paul Farmer, who while in medical school found his calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need it most.

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1120L
Mountains Beyond Mountains

The Boy on the Wooden Box

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Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers...

Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home.

Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third Reich wanted him, and every other Jew in Europe, dead.

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1000L
The Boy on the Wooden Box

Lincoln's Grave Robbers

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A true crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body!

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930L
Lincoln's Grave Robbers

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

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As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history.

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780L
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (Unabridged)

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Twelve-year-old Mary Jemison took for granted her peaceful days on her family's farm in eastern Pennsylvania. But on a spring day in 1758, something happened that changed her life forever.

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800L
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07:18
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (Unabridged)

Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary

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Typhoid fever is running rampant across America, striking down tens of thousands of people. Dr. George Soper must get to the root of the problem fast. He knows that it takes just one person carrying the bacteria for the fever to spread. When Soper traces an outbreak to Mary Mallon, a New York City cook, he is determined to prevent her from infecting others. But Mallon refuses to cooperate.

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Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary

The Sound of Life and Everything

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Twelve-year-old Ella Mae Higbee is a sensible girl. She eats her vegetables and wants to be just like Sergeant Friday, her favorite character on Dragnet. So when her auntie Mildred starts spouting nonsense about a scientist who can bring her cousin Robby back to life, Ella Mae doesn't believe her - until a boy steps out of the scientist's pod and drips slime on the floor right before her eyes.

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750L
The Sound of Life and Everything

Island Treasures: Growing Up in Cuba

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The author of My Name Is María Isabel offers an inspiring look at her childhood in Cuba in this collection that includes Where the Flame Trees Bloom, Under the Royal Palms, five new stories, and more.

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Island Treasures: Growing Up in Cuba

When the Slave Esperanza Garcia Wrote a Letter

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In 1770, the slave Esperança Garcia bravely penned a letter to the governor of Piauí state, in Brazil, describing how she and her children were being mistreated and requesting permission to return to the farm where the rest of her family was living. Before she wrote her letter, Esperança Garcia lived on a cotton farm run by Jesuit priests, where she learned to read and write — a rare opportunity for a woman, especially a slave.

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When the Slave Esperanza Garcia Wrote a Letter

American Genius (Mini-Series) (2015)

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Behind every great genius was a great rival - an unstoppable adversary whose incredible vision, determination and ambition is their match. Out of their struggles came the world's most brilliant inventions. In a stunning 8-part mini-series, AMERICAN GENIUS reveals the fateful forces behind the greatest competitions for innovation.

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Middle
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06:00
American Genius (Mini-Series)

Heart of a Samurai

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It's 1841, and fourteen-year0old Manjiro and his four friends find themselves stranded on a deserted island after a storm at sea. Beyond the island is the unknown, filled with monsters and demons and barbarians, or so they've been told. They know they cannot return to their home in Japan--the country's borders are closed to foreigners and also to citizens who have strayed.

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760L
Heart of a Samurai

Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

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"Hard as we work for nothing, there must be some way we can change things...There must be something else."

Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil War: Episodes 1-5 (1990)

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This is the first half of a 6 disc set.

Disc 1
Episode One: The Cause (1861)

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Middle
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06:40
The Civil War: Episodes 1-5

Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad

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Just after gold fever swept the West--a time when people walked, sailed, or rode horses for months on end to seek their fortune--the question of faster, safer, more reliable transportation between America's East and West Coasts was posed by lawmakers and national leaders. But with 1,800 miles of seemingly impenetrable mountains, searing deserts, and endless plains between the Missouri River and San Francisco, could a transcontinental railroad be built?

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NC1230L
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad

The Civil War: Episodes 6-9 (1990)

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This is the second half of a 6 disc set.

Disc 4
Episode Six: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864)

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Middle
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05:00
The Civil War: Episodes 6-9

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