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Hi Gail,
I'd consider *The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women *by
Kate Moore. It's amazing and even has an Illinois connection. On the 2019
Lincoln list too.
Jane

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> *Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann: * "In the 1920s, the richest
> people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in
> Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in
> chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study
> in Europe.
>       Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an
> Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were
> shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members
> of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
>       In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty
> made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom
> Terror,” roamed—many of those who dared to investigate the killings were
> themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four,
> the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization’s first major
> homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In
> desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas
> Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an
> undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the
> bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest
> techniques of detection.  Together with the Osage they began to expose one
> of the most chilling conspiracies in American history."
>
> Beverly Zbinden
> Head Librarian @ Niles North High School
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> "What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks
> about education."
>   - Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions for our AP Language Summer reading title?  The teacher
>> wants a non-fiction high interest title, potentially true-crime but not
>> necessarily.  She was looking at *Girls of Murder City* but I haven’t
>> read that and can’t comment.
>>
>>
>>
>> Past books that didn’t go over well have been:
>>
>> *A Long Way Gone*
>>
>> *Outliers*
>>
>> *In True Blood*
>>
>> *Into the Wild*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Devil in the White City* is used by another class so that was rejected
>> by administration.
>>
>>
>>
>> What’s been a hit with your students?
>>
>>
>>
>> Gail Meyer, Librarian
>>
>> TF South High School
>>
>> gmeyer at tfd215.org
>>
>>
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