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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins/HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand." — Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City
"Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard reads
...Author
Publisher
Literary Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[Fwd. 1945]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times ..." The year is 1789. In London, Lucie Darnay lives quietly with her father, who is a former prisoner, and her husband and child. In Paris, the bloody French Revolution is about to begin. How will the uprisings in faraway France affect Lucie and those she loves? What dreadful secrets from the distant past threaten their security, even their lives? When "the best of times" becomes "the worst of...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1942
Language
English
Description
Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask).
The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carlton House
Pub. Date
[19--]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
'War and Peace' has been described as the Illiad and the Odyssey of the Russian people, with just cause. This is a work that speaks to the meaning and hope of life. Tolstoy's realism forced him to strip away much of the glorification of war and show the realities. Yet Tolstoy presents the events of 1812 as a moral crusade, and that the Russians won against the Napoleonic onslaught because of their adherence to simple, good and true virtues (as much...
Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of The Three Musketeers includes a Biographical Note by Stephen Brust.
Giant Porthos; elegant Aramis; mysterious, haunted Athos: they are fearless, loyal and unstoppable. They're also rogues,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.
Author
Publisher
Barnes and Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel that is based on the final section of the novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, pere, which was itself based on the 18th century legend of The Man in the Iron Mask. The plot often involves D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers and an identical twin brother of King Louis XIV of France, and it is considered a sequel to The Three Musketeers. Beautifully illustrated, this classic tale will capture children's interest and spark...
Author
Series
Publisher
Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In this insightful book, Thomas Cahill, internationally-acclaimed historian and author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization (RB# 94747), reveals the changes in thinking that made Western civilization possible. A New York Times best-seller, The Gifts of the Jews is his accessible portrait of an ancient society and their vision that would later inspire the concept of individual worth. Until the third millennium, it was a widely-held...
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and, with another priest, wins the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years, Edmond Dant�es escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold--and a new identity with which to pursue his revenge and redemption.
13) Malibu rising
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Four famous siblings throw an epic end-of-summer party that goes dangerously out of control as secrets and loves that shaped this family's generations come to light, changing their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/Mariner
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
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. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts
...15) Kidnapped
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
David Balfour has never had an adventure. He has never spent a night camping in the Scottish Highlands. He has never sailed the high seas. He has never fought in a battle. In fact David Balfour has never even left home. All he knows is a quiet country life. All this changes after the death of his parents. He suddenly learns that he, David Balfour, is a man of wealth and standing, and that he is not destined for a simple life after all. All he needs...
Author
Publisher
Garden City Books
Pub. Date
c1961
Language
English
Description
Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The...
17) Black Beauty
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & company
Pub. Date
1941
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
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