High School History

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax World History, Volume 1: to 1500 audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. World History, Volume 1: to 1500 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course to 1500 offered at...

If my childhood taught me anything, it was to survive. Now I have a deep-rooted mistrust of people and a wall of steel and ice surrounding my heart. So, when Reed Ryan steps into my life, I know I need to keep him far away. He’s everything I grew up hating. Fighting. Fleeing. Devastatingly handsome, he looks like a drunken regret and has heartbreak written over every inch of his body - literally. He’s the quintessential bad boy...and he’s a cop. But the man is my undoing.

Human history is not a collection of isolated civilizations. It is one connected story. Long before modern globalization, people were already crossing deserts, sailing oceans, exchanging goods, spreading religions, building empires, transmitting technologies, and carrying diseases across continents. From the first human migrations out of Africa to the digital networks of the twenty-first century, connection has shaped nearly every major turning point in world history. World History: The Connected Story offers a clear, engaging, and comprehensive introduction to the development of human ...

250 years. 250 stories. One country. On July 4, 2026, the United States turns two hundred and fifty. To mark the occasion, Henry Ashford has done something no popular history of America has attempted before: he has told the entire story year by year, with a single defining moment for each of the 250 years from the Declaration of Independence to the eve of the anniversary. One year. One story. One page or two. 1776 is the Declaration. 1865 is Appomattox and Lincoln's death. 1929 is the Crash. 1969 is Apollo 11. 2001 is September. But what about 1832? 1879? 1924? 1957? Some of America's most ...

In How to Be a High School Superstar, Cal Newport explores the world of relaxed superstars - students who scored spots at the nation's top colleges by leading uncluttered, low stress, and authentic lives. Drawing from extensive interviews and cutting-edge science, Newport explains the surprising truths behind these superstars' mixture of happiness and admissions success.

AN INSTANT USA Today BESTSELLER A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read FEATURED IN The Wall Street Journal, Blooomberg, MoneyWeek, Kiplinger, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Washington Independent Review of Books AND MORE! Introduction read by the author. “Eye opening, deeply researched...

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since...

Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and...

Ever heard of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer? That's exactly what Ally Lockwood has to do when the hottest guy at Fairview High, who is also her sworn nemesis, moves in with her family for senior year. Most girls would do anything to live across the hall from Chase Williams, but Ally isn't fooled by his good looks or brooding charm. She's been on the wrong side of him for years, and knows all too well how sly and manipulative he truly is. She's desperate to get rid of him. Her friends have a genius plan to ensure her over-protective father kicks Chase out for good.

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school. "After my sister Meadow was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media obsessed for months about the type of rifle the...

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times bestseller freshly adapted for the next generation. Inspiration for the PBS American Experience Documentary 'The Boys of '36' For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the...

On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history.

Abby would be your typical teenager - that is, if she wasn't part of a secret organization tasked with tracking down meta-humans. She doesn't agree with what she's doing, but when Agent Smith tells her she will be infiltrating a school to find a dangerous meta, she knows she has no choice because disobeying means that her brother will end up in their special meta-human prison. When she meets her target, she realized that he is not as dangerous as she was led to believe.

As the United States moves toward civil war, young printer’s apprentice Thomas Garrett discovers that history is not made only in capitals and battlefields. It is also made in hidden cellars, divided homes, crowded hospitals, newspaper offices, and the choices ordinary people make when the law protects injustice. Beginning in Frederick, Maryland, in 1852, Tom’s life changes when a frightened mother and her two sons arrive at his family’s home while fleeing slavery. Their appearance draws him into the secret routes of the Underground Railroad and forces him to confront the human cost ...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller! A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race. The...

Describes the forgotten history of the lost civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria and how, after their destruction due to pole shifts, the Ascended Masters seeded the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Incan Peru, and the Himalayas Explores our impending planetary ascent into higher...

In the first half of the 20th century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law. By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Path Lit by Lightning comes a groundbreaking biography that captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God. More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American...

Poison in Plain Sight A man bites a pen and dies in seconds. A city drinks from a well that looks perfectly clean. A chef slices a fish knowing one wrong cut ends the meal, and possibly a life. Every chapter in Invisible Poisons: The Chemistry of History's Most Dangerous Substances begins with a real event. Every event is a chemistry problem that someone had to solve — usually after the damage was already done. This book follows the story of toxicology from its messiest beginnings to its modern frontiers. A poisoned cup of coffee helped invent forensic science. A Soviet spy's pen ...

Justine had the job of her dreams, the best parents in the world, and a brother she more than just tolerated. The one thing she gave up on was finding love. She didn't need that to be happy, right? In helping her brother pull off his own last-minute wedding, Justine may be in for a surprise of her own, and find love had been right there in her face the entire time. Chase has been in love with Justine for as long as he can remember. What started off as a boyhood crush only grew as she blossomed into the woman she is today. The problem? She's his best friends sister, and he knows that's not ...