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Temeraire volume 8
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English
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Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a twenty-first-century classic. From the first volume, His Majesty's Dragon, readers have been entranced by the globe-spanning adventures of the resolute Capt. William Laurence and his brave but impulsive dragon, Temeraire. Now, in Blood of Tyrants, the penultimate volume of the...
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An award-winning writer re-imagines the life of Jesus, from the points of view of four people closest to him before his death.
This is the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four people tell their stories. His mother grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his faith, the High Priest of the Temple tries to keep the peace, and a rebel named Bar-Avo strives to bring that...
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Luz had nightheat, the sensuous quality in a woman that makes men ache with desire. Nick loved and lusted for her the first time he saw her. But, what he didn't know was that Luz had secrets-that beneath the glamour and sex appeal was a woman determined to turn her back on wealth and challenge a corrupt political system. Even if doing so meant her life.
Nick started out dirt poor-as a child, he survived the war-torn frozen hell of the siege of Leningrad...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
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"An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy, witnessed through the eyes of its founder, the terrifyingly charismatic figure who would become one of the most notorious dictators of the twentieth century, Benito Mussolini"--
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Dagger and the coin volume 3
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English
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Tyrant Geder Palliako, rogue banker Ban Cithrin bel Sarcour of the Medean, and disgraced widow and loyal traitor to the Empire Clara Kalliam continue the great war while, in the shadows of the world, Captain Marcus Wester tracks an ancient secret that will change the war in ways not even he can forsee.
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The puppetmaster's apprentice, Pirouette Leiter, is tasked to build a wooden assassin by the Margrave of Tavia, or her puppetmaster father will be imprisoned.
Impressed by the work of the puppetmaster and his apprentice, Tavia's ruler, The Margrave, has ordered dozens of life-size marionette soldiers to be sent to Wolfspire Hall. When the puppetmaster is unable to fill the order for a hundred soldiers by the deadline, he is imprisoned in the Wolfspire...
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"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
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1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatri-ate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest round the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to 'do something' about them yet lacking the zeal that might trans-form misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clip-ping showing her father with the...
11) Wolf
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"In the Great Tradition of Herman Wouk, Author of Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Wolf is a Thoroughly Researched and Illustrated Historical Novel about a Man who is Not Yet a Monster . . . but Will Soon Become the Ultimate One: Adolf Hitler. Perhaps no man on Earth is more controversial, more hated, or more studied than Adolf Hitler. His exploits and every move are well-documented, from the time he first became chancellor and then dictator...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
13) The spider's war
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Dagger and the coin volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and the weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final victory retreats before him like a mirage. Schism and revolt begin to erode the foundations of the empire, and the great conquest threatens to collapse into a permanent war of all against all. In Carse, with armies on all borders, Cithrin bel Sarcour,...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Based on historical facts, this is the story of a coup that didn't happen--a coup to remove Hitler from power in 1938. A group of German military leaders, career civil servants, and clergy waited for a phone call that would order the invasion of Czechoslovakia and be the signal to launch their revolt. Instead, with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, the coup was over before it could begin and the path to World War II was set.
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Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand, the last archmage in the world. Together they try to collect all the magic for themselves so they can control the citizens of the city. But when their decadence reaches new heights and begins to destroy the environment, the people stage an uprising to stop...
16) Mr. President
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece-the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism-in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. A Penguin Classic. In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone...
17) Tales of Levinia
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Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Prince James and his friends all lived peacefully in the land of Levinia until one fateful day, when the wicked Lady Emalia and Master Daxumus enacted The Reign of Broken Souls that sent our heroes to the dreary town of Dragon Hollow. In this town, the prince and his followers have no recollection of their lives in Levinia and are forced to spend each day more miserable than the last. Feeling successful, Emalia foresees to continue her reign by preventing...