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Dragon masters volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The Dragon Masters have defeated the evil wizard Maldred, but not before the Kingdom of Bracken was devastated by Naga, the earthquake dragon; now Drake and his dragon, Worm, must appeal to the spring dragon, Fallyn, who is their only hope of restoring Bracken before its people starve--but Fallyn lives deep inside a secret fairy world, and Drake must pass a series of tricky tests before he can even make his appeal.
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English
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"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes--the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Ariadne, a spellbinding debut fantasy about a human who gets trapped with the god of Autumn, who brings with him life-threatening danger and a forbidden romance. Under the right circumstances, would even a god fall? Tirne is one of four humans rigorously selected to usher the turn of the seasons into the mortal world. Every year, she escorts the taciturn god Autumn between the godly and human realms. Autumn's seasonal stay among mortals...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An influential, award-winning philosopher discusses that people have the same moral obligations to those far across the globe as they do to those nearby, and ignoring the needy far away has the same moral weight as ignoring a drowning child.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of twelve-year-old Lorraine this haunting novel from the award-winning author of Hidden and Hush gives insight and understanding into a little known part of historythe Irish potato famine. It is the autumn of 1846 in Ireland. Lorraine and her brother are waiting for the time to pick the potato crop on their family farm leased from an English landowner. But this year is differentthe spuds are mushy and ruined. What will Lorraine and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing...
Publisher
International Historic Films Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Documentary of the Ukrainian "terror famine" of 1932-33 which caused the deaths of seven million people. Includes interviews with survivors and scholars supplemented by rare photographic evidence. Provides insight into one of the 20th century's least known but most vicious genocides. Shows that the "terror famine" was deliberately created by the Soviet government as part of a decades-long effort by Stalin to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry, who resisted...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.
11) Hambre
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B, Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela cuya accion transcurre entre la indiferencia de los paises occidentales ante la hambruna mundial y la desesperada miseria del Africa.
A novel which takes place between the indifference of Western countries to world hunger and the desperate poverty of Africa.
13) Nory Ryan's song
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past. In the 1930s, Stalin's activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An incredible memoir of North Korea by a woman who defied the government to keep her family alive. Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household--her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine resulting in more than a million deaths. In this harsh time, Jang...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three...
18) Flamefall
Author
Series
Aurelian cycle volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a brutal revolution Callipolis is ravaged by famine and the Pythians are ready for revenge, so it's up to Annie, Lee, and newcomer Griff to decide what to fight for, and who to love"--
19) Moments in time
Publisher
Discovery Education
Pub. Date
2012, [c2003?]
Language
English
Description
Archaeological finds become tickets to travel back in time.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan,...
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