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"Scott recounts formative events of his life alongside the inspiring stories of other Americans who have risen above hardship and embodied values that make our nation great"--Dust jacket.

"Danica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively. . . . Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it's possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths"--Amazon.

Follows the owner and three very different residents of the Blue Lion Hotel as London prepares to celebrate the upcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

"You won the election--now what? Activist organizing meets government gridlock as a millennial New Yorker cartoonist follows a first-year senator on her unforgettable journey--from outsider to insider"--Provided by publisher.

While on a trip in 1956 to visit her grandmother in the South, six-year-old Sarah Marie experiences segregation for the first time, but discovers that things have changed by the time she returns the following year.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire, or something else entirely.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid, " a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

In the 1970s, after the death of Dracula, a vampire on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" in Transylvania meets a starving young vampire named Ion Popescu and helps him escape to America to begin a new life, unaware that the boy has been infused with the blood of Dracula himself. Reinventing himself as Johnny Pop, this new incarnation of the King of Vampires gets rich selling an addictive drug that confers vampire powers on its users, and both Johnny and the drug become a hit on the decadent New York art scene, where vampirism is considered chic.