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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 26
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly...
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Sigma Force novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany--and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain. Meanwhile, madness ravages a monastery in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin...
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Series
Earth's children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
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From the Publisher: This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the period between D-Day and V-E Day, this book follows the Monuments Men on their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis. These unlikely heroes, mostly middle-aged family men, walked...
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From Barcelona s tapas bars to the ancient ruins of Greece and Turkey, and from Sarajevo s marble-flagged Turkish quarter to the glitzy beach clubs of St Tropez, Mediterranean Europe is a visual and sensual feast. "Getting you to the heart of a place"Amazing experiences Inspirational images, author recommendations and the best of local knowledge. Plan the perfect trip Planning features and top itineraries give you the freedom to create your ideal...
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Publisher
Avalon Travel, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe in this full-color guidebook, including how to: plan your itinerary and maximize your time, pack light--and right, find good-value hotels and restaurants, travel smoothly by train, bus, car, and plane, avoid crowds and tourist scams, hurdle the language barrier, understand cultural differences and connect with locals, save money while enjoying the trip...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone...
12) Queen of babble
Author
Series
Queen of babble novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Lizzie Nichols discovers that her inability to keep her mouth shut has landed her once again in hot water when she aggravates her unfaithful boyfriend, Andy, is stranded in London, and takes a job as a bartender for a catered wedding at a French chateau, an affair that ends with the groom in disgrace, a furious bride, and Andy returning to ruin everything.
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English
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The Clan of the cave bear is the first of Jean Auel's sensational Earth's Children series. Ayla, a tall, blond, blue-eyed girl lost her family in an earthquake. She is nurtured and protected by some members of the Clan, but there are those who would cast her out because of her strange and threatening ways. Ayla's adventures 25,000 years ago include exquisite details of our world as it might have been.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
From the ice age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire history of Europe in one single volume. The narrative zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent's development, to the close focus of the last two chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year. In between, Norman Davies presents...
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Language
English
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Corrie stopped at nothing to face down the evils of her time and overcame unbelievable obstacles and odds. She persevered despite the loss of most of her family and relied on her faith to survive the horrors of a notorious concentration camp. But even more remarkable than her heroism and survival was Corrie's attitude when she was released. Miraculously, she was able to eschew bitterness and embrace forgiveness as she ministered to people in need...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering 34 countries across 60 years, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every country has its chance to play the lead, and although the big...
20) Castle
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Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks behind fortress walls to explore how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals, the important rooms, the people who lived in them, and what castle life was like.
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