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  Three Detail Stories - Volume 2

  Nicholas Leither, Rosa Leither

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  Volume 2 of Three Detail Stories invites you once again into the Leither house, where storytime is an adventure designed by kids. Itasca (7) and River (5) choose three random details and Nicholas, aka “Daddy Dude,” must come up with a story including those three details on the spot. The result is always surprising, engaging, and fun. How do you fit a crystal, a cat and a boat into a fantastic tale? What about Rudolph, a bulldozer and a canoe? Listen to find out. Designed with children age 3 to 10 in mind, Three Detail Stories are good for road trips, rainy days, quiet time, bedtime and anytime inbetween.

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  America’s Greatest Democratic...

  Editors Charles River

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  Woodrow Wilson’s presidency was monumentally consequential, but it is not without its critics, nor is the man himself. Even as Wilson has come to be viewed as one of America’s greatest presidents, perception of Wilson and his administration as racist have also taken hold. Despite being one of the early 20th century’s most forceful proponents of a globalized foreign policy, Wilson’s personal views and comments were ardently anti-immigration, and Wilson’s administration entrenched and expanded segregation in the federal government. 
  	For over a decade, President Roosevelt threw everything he had at the Great Depression, and then threw everything the country had at the Axis powers during World War II. Ultimately, he succumbed to illness in the middle of his fourth term, just before the Allies won the war. The new president, Harry Truman, had to usher America through victory in Europe in his first month and decide to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few months later, but the end of World War II produced only the first of many consequential decisions Truman would face during his nearly 8 years in office. As president, Truman would lay the groundwork for the next 50 years of American foreign policy, as the architect of Cold War containment, the man who signed off on the Marshall Plan, and the commander-in-chief during much of the Korean War. He would also be the president who finally integrated the military, a crucial step on the way to full civil rights for the country’s minorities.  
  Had Lyndon Johnson’s presidency included just his domestic agenda, he would have unquestionably been one of America’s greatest presidents. Unfortunately, as he was engineering a new social contract at home, he was ramping up American military participation in a tiny country thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia. For a man who accomplished so much at home, it’s ironic and tragic that his presidency and legacy were permanently marred by Vietnam.

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  Remember My Story - A Girl a...

  Claire Sarnowski, Sarah Durand

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  Told through "moments of despair, heartbreak, laughter, and triumph" (Kirkus), this "inspiring" (Booklist) and "hopeful" (School Library Journal) memoir tells the true story of how a modern teen girl and her Holocaust-survivor friend fought against hate to create change.    In 2018, fourteen-year-old Claire Sarnowski stood with ninety-two-year-old Alter Wiener in front of the Oregon state senate to champion a cause the two friends both believed in: making Holocaust education mandatory in their state’s public school curriculum. Theirs was an unexpected friendship—she was in elementary school when they met, and he was an aging Holocaust survivor whose memoir she had read—and together they were going to change the American education system. Alter had spent decades speaking to audiences of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, teaching that “never forgetting” could help spread tolerance and prevent such an atrocity from happening again. But Claire knew hate crimes were still being committed, in her own town and even in her own school. She didn’t want Alter’s efforts on Holocaust education to be in vain. From strangers to friends to law-changing history makers, Claire and Alter’s mission was always simple: Remember this story. This page-turning memoir is a tribute to a man who survived the worst of humanity, an ode to friendship and community, and an empowering call to activism.

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  Mirage of Victory

  Martin Hicks

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  It is May of 1863 and the Civil War in North America has entered its third year. Facing a range of enemy threats, southern commander General Robert E. Lee proposes an invasion of the northern states to supply his army, relieve pressure on other imperilled fronts and to seek decisive victory on enemy territory that could end the war. Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan serves with his comrades of a Georgian regiment as the campaign unfolds, with Lee's army manoeuvring northwards through Virginia and across the Potomac River into Maryland and Pennsylvania, moving towards a fateful encounter with the Union army around the market town of Gettysburg. 
  Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He began writing after a career in education and "Mirage of Victory" is his sixth book, based on the experiences of Daniel Ryan in the American Civil War of 1861-65. 
  Other novels by the same author: 
  "A Gathering of Soldiers" 
  "Hard Passage North" 
  "The Rappahannock Line" 
  "A Season for Killing" 
  "A Deepening Twilight"

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  Fundevogel

  Brothers Grimm

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  One day a forester brings home a foundling to raise along with his daughter, and names the child Fundevogel. When Fundevogel and his daughter, Lina, were older, Lina discovered that the cook was a witch and was planning to to eat Fundevogel. She convinced him to run away with her, and by transforming themselves into a variety of objects they are able to elude capture by the cook's assitants. Finally the cook herself seeks them out, and they are able to drown her and return home.

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  Sleep Stories - 5 Minutes Short...

  Edith Nesbit, Maud Lindsay,...

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  Create a calming environment for your little one to fall asleep to with this collection of calming 5 minute short stories.
   
  
   
  Get comfy, grab your teddy and settle down, as we wind down for the day and allow your little one to get a perfect nights sleep.
   
  
   
  Perfect for your Bedtime routine, or that long car trip, or for that much needed Quiet Time.

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