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Summer 2018 AP U.S. History Gordon Ladd ([email protected])

The students are to select any book with a 1 next to it to read this summer. After reading they are to write a 1 - 2 page book report that will be presented to the class at the beginning of school.

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION

The Unredeemed Captive John Demos 973.25 1

The Devil in the White City Erik Larson see Ms. Piccoli 2

Isaac’s Storm Erik Larson 976.4139 2

In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson 943.086 2

In the Heart of the Sea 1 Nathaniel Philbrick 910.9164 ​ ​ Mayflower 2 Nathaniel Philbrick 973.22 ( multiple copies) ​ ​ Team of Rivals: The Political Doris Kearns Goodwin 973.7092 Genius of Abraham Lincoln 1 ​ ​ Bunker Hill: A city, a Siege Nathaniel Philbrick 1

The Last Stand: Custer, Nathaniel Philbrick Sitting Bull and the Battle 2

Sea of Glory: America's Nathaniel Philbrick Voyage of Discovery 1

Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 973.099 2

The Wordy Shipmates 1 Sarah Vowell 974.00882859 ​ ​ Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell 996.9 2

The Partly Cloudy Patriot 1 Sarah Vowell ​ ​ Take the Canolli Sarah Vowell 2

Seabiscuit 2 Laura Hillenbrand 798.400929 ​ ​ Unbroken: A WWII Story of Laura Hillenbrand 940.547252092 Survival, Resilience, & Redemption 2 ​ ​ The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley 320.54092 Malcolm X 2

Bury My Heart at Wounded Dee Alexander Brown 970.00497 Knee 1&2

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION

John Adams David McCullough 973.44092 1

1776 David McCullough 973.3 (multiple copies) 1

The Greater Journey: David McCullough 920.009213044361 Americans in Paris 2

Brave Companions 1&2 David McCullough 920.073 ​ ​ Truman 2 David McCullough 973.918 ​ ​ The Great Bridge: The Epic David McCullough Story of the Brooklyn Bridge 2 Chasing Lincoln’s Killer 1 James L. Swanson 973.7092 ​ ​ Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase James L. Swanson see Ms. Piccoli for Lincoln’s Killer 1 ​ ​ The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw 940.548173 2

Lies My Teacher Told Me James W. Loewen 973 1&2

Don’t Know Much About the Kenneth C. Davis 973.7 Civil War 1

Don’t Know Much About US Kenneth C. Davis see Ms. Piccoli (multiples) History 1&2

Triangle: The Fire That Dave Von Drehle 974.71041 Changed America 2 ​ ​ Freedom Riders: 1961 & the Raymond Arsenault 323.092 Struggle for Racial Justice 2 ​ ​ Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 338.7610 2

Benjamin Franklin 1 Walter Isaacson ​ ​ Kissinger: A Biography 2 Walter Isaacson ​ ​ A Man on the Moon 2 Andrew Chaikin 629.4540973 ​ ​

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION

Confederates in the Attic Tony Horowitz 973.7 1&2

Midnight Rising: John Brown Tony Horowitz 973.7166 and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War 1

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Rebecca Skloot 616.02774092 Lacks 2 ​ ​ The Secretary: A Journey Kim Ghattas 327.7300 with Hillary Clinton 2 ​ ​ The Audacity of Hope 2 Barack Obama 973.0460730092 ​ ​ Blackwater 2 Jeremy Scahill ​ ​ Dirty Wars 2 Jeremy Scahill ​ ​ Franklin & Winston: An Jon Meacham 940.530922 Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship 2 ​ ​ Citizens of London: The Lynne Olson Americans Who Stood w/Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour 2 ​ ​ Those Angry Days: Lynne Olson Roosevelt, Lindbergh & America’s Fight Over WWII 2

American Lion: Andrew Jon Meacham Jackson in the White House 1

American Sphinx: The Joseph J. Ellis Character of Thomas Jefferson 1

The Hemingses of Monticello: Annette Gordon-Reed 973.460922 An American Family 1 ​ ​ The River of Doubt: Teddy Candice Millard 918.13045 Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey2 ​

The Destiny of the Republic: Candice Millard 918.13045 A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President 2 ​ ​ One Minute to Midnight: Michael Dobbs Kennedy, Khrushchev & Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 2

Empire of the Summer S.C. Gwynne 978.004974572 Moon2 ​ FICTION

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Cold Mountain 1 Charles Frazier FIC Frazier ​ ​ The Jungle 2 FIC Sinclair ​ ​ Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe FIC Stowe ​ ​ Ahab’s Wife 1 Sena Jeter Naslund FIC Naslund ​ ​ Invisible Man Ralph Ellison FIC Ellison 2

Juneteenth Ralph Ellison FIC Ellison 2

Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of FIC Shaara the Mexican War 1

The Glorious Cause: A Novel Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara of the American Revolution 1

The Rising Tide: A Novel of Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara WWII 2

The Steel Wave: A Novel of Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara WWII 2

No Than Victory: A Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara Novel of WWII 2

A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara the Battle of Shiloh 1

The Killer Angels 1 see Ms. Piccoli ​ ​

Gods & Generals: A Novel of Jeff Shaara the Civil War 2 ​ ​ The Help 2 Kathryn Stockett FIC Stockett ​ ​

The Lions of Little Rock 2 Kristin Levine FIC Levine ​ ​ Caleb’s Wars 2 David L. Dudley FIC Dudley ​ ​ Mary Coin 2 Marisa Silver FIC Silver ​ ​ Caleb’s Crossing 2 Geraldine Brooks FIC Brooks ​ ​ Fever 2 Mary Beth Keane FIC Keane ​ ​

The House Girl 1 Tara Conklin ​ ​ The Alienist Caleb Carr 2

Snow Falling on Cedars 2 David Guterson FIC Guterson ​ ​ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith FIC Betty Smith 2

The Grapes of Wrath 2 FIC Steinbeck ​ ​ Out of the Easy Ruta Sepetys FIC Sepetys 2

The Color Purple 2 FIC Walker ​ ​ FIC Eugenides 2

Walking to Gatlinburg: A Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher Novel 1

A Stranger in the Kingdom Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher 2

Where the Rivers Flow North Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher

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On Kingdom Mountain Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher 2

Disappearances Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher 2

The Mathews Men 2 William Geroux 940.5451 Geroux ​ ​ Lost in Shangri-La 2 Mitchell Zuckoff 940.548 Zuckoff ​ ​ Dead Wake Erik Larson 940.5414 2

Elephant Company 2 Vicki Constantine Croke 940.259591092 ​ ​ ​ The Girls of Atomic City Denise Kiernan 976.873 Kiernan 2 S.C. Gwynne 973.7 3092 JACKSON Rebel Yell 1

Killing of Crazy Horse 2 Thomas Powers ​ ​