arkansas

Presents a minute-by-minute account of an H-bomb accident that nearly caused a nuclear disaster, examining other near misses and America's growing susceptibility to a catastrophic event.

Autumn of 1986 in the Ozarks finds eleven-year-old April Grace adjusting to middle school, coping with her mother's difficult pregnancy, helping Isabel with the church play, and trying to figure out why the new boy at school will not leave her alone.

In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.

In September 1957, a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a civil rights battleground when nine black students sought to enroll. This book tells their story and explains its importance in the broad context of the civil rights movement.

The first complete oral history of Bill Clinton and his presidency, it includes more than one hundred and fifty chronologically and topically arranged interviews with key figures.

Contains the six autobiographies that chronicle the life and career of acclaimed author, Maya Angelou, her childhood in Arkansas and birth of her son after World War Two, her involvement with the Civil Rights movement, and the beginning of her writing career.

The peace is disturbed in sleepy Maggody, Arkansas when the historical society decides to fund a documentary on the town's role in the Civil War, and Police Chief Arly Hanks finds herself with chaos and murder on her hands when word gets out that a cache of Confederate gold is stashed in a local cave.

Seventeen-year-old Pert Lexie does not think things could get much worse in her small, impoverished community, but when her uncle's advances go too far, everything--including her determination to leave as soon as possible--suddenly changes.

An autobiography of former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in which she discusses her childhood as the daughter of impoverished sharecroppers, her medical school days, her achievements as a doctor, and her controversial political appointment.

Presents information about the state of Arkansas, its nickname, motto, and emblems.