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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Studs Terkel's Working and by James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, DW Gibson sets off on a journey across the United States to interview Americans who have lost their jobs. Here is the mortgage broker who arrived at work to find the door to his office building padlocked, the human resources executive who laid off a couple hundred people before being laid off herself, the husband who was laid off two weeks after his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump's border wall in San Diego-and the impact on the lives of local residents. In August of 2019, Donald Trump finished building his border wall-at least a portion of it. In San Diego, the Army Corps of engineers completed two years of construction on a 14-mile steel beamed barrier that extends eighteen-feet high and cost a staggering $147 million....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In his logbook, Captain Redbeard the pirate relates his adventures, including mutiny, ongoing battles with jelly beans, and a mysterious island called Fundorado. Being a pirate I've had me share of adventure and heard many a tall tale. But what I'm pullin' ye into be more thrillin' than any lit keg o'gun powder I ever had the chance to leap away from. ... Abandoned on his ship, the Picaroon, by his no-good bad of scoundrels with no provisions except...
