When George Washington was president, there wasn't a White House. That's because he hadn't built it yet. This is the story of how George Washington designed and built the house American presidents have lived in ever since.
Overwrought when she sees her ex-boyfriend with another girl during a class field trip, seventeen-year-old Miriam Feldman races into the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden and pushes over a priceless Picasso sculpture, then finds herself blackmailed by the mystery girl who saw what she did.
"Disturbed Lane resumes her role as the Masked Savior, but an admirer becomes a copycat, assaulting the defenseless. And Lane also suspects someone is spying on her. Someone who knows her secrets"--.
Draws on the writings of Charles Eastman to recount his attempts to embrace the traditional cultural ideals of his Sioux ancestors while living in the dominate white society of his time and explores how other Native Americans have struggled to remain true to their heritage while living in the modern world.
This picture book provides an overview of the significance, history, and current state of the Jefferson Memorial. Key words and more detailed facts are provided at the end of the book, to help adults round out young readers' knowledge on the topic.
A well-known actress has been shot. Shortly afterwards the LA Times receives a letter describing her murder in vivid detail. More killings and e-mails follow and the victims are all Hollywood players. Who could be doing this? And why?.
Alex Coss, FBI agent, is back. So is the Wolf (a Russian super-criminal), and so is the Weasel. Catapulted into an international chase of danger, Alex has to fight his way through false leads, impersonators, and foreign agents to get at the truth.
Top plastic surgeon Elijah Creem is renowed for his skills and for his wild, partying lifestyle. Creem enjoys his life until Alex Cross becomes a part of it. When three women are found murdered, and rumors of not one, but three serial killers throws Washington D.C. into a frenzy, Alex discovers that Creem's parties are not what they seem.
America's first families are among the most private public figures on earth. Each new administration brings a unique set of personalities to the White House---and a new set of challenges to the fiercely loyal and hardworking people who serve them : the White House residence staff. Stories that are fifty years old, through ten presidential administrations, tell about the good times the bad times, and all the times in-between in this book.
A biography of Paul Jennings, slave of President James Madison and African American abolitionists, discussing his life as slave in the White House and on Madison's plantation, what life was like for African American's in early Washington D.C., and his work as a abolitionist.
