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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by...
Author
Series
Emperor series volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After being captured and ransomed by pirates and left to seek revenge on foreign soil, Julius Caesar is reunited with his lifelong friend, Marcus Brutus, to protect the city of Rome from an uprising led by rebel slave Spartacus.
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
A jihadist leader has seized a supply of sarin gas and is wreaking havoc. Marine gunnery sergeant A. E. Blount, the grandson of one of the first black Marines, sets out with his strike force to kill or capture the terrorist. Several Marines are killed, some are captured, and the jihadist promises that unless forces withdraw, he will execute one prisoner a day. Immediately, Blount's friends and colleagues Sophia Gold, now with the U.N., and Lieutenant...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying dying in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his mailbag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two. In the midst of profound trauma, terrible warfare, and the nameless experience of desertion, this gripping story...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
In this triumphant bestseller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming bonds of six young runaways cast adrift in the worldas well as the hedonistic pursuit of drugs and pleasure that collapses all around them. With the sure touch...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Smith, a young Texan, embarks on an expedition across a strange continent where he encounters strange adventures, from a desert hermit who can slow up time to a battle with a crocodile cult that worships the god of death.
"All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone is the rollicking adventure story of Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, who thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days...
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