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Kingsbridge volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over...
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Language
English
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The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire ... but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? Spanning five years, from the budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, "Madame Tussaud" brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax modeling saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
" ... encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization ... vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence. King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte lead a cast of thousands ..." Container.
12) Little
Author
Publisher
RIverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" --
15) The golden hour
Author
Series
Golden hour volume 1
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Rowan and his eleven-year-old sister Nina, still bereft by the death of their mother the year before, experience an unusual adventure through time when they come to stay with their two eccentric great-aunts in a small town on the Maine coast.
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Series
Pimpernelles volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In early 1790s' Paris, as the Revolution gains momentum, young and sheltered Eugenie de Boncoeur finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of "le Fantome," the sinister spymaster with a long-held grudge against their family.
Author
Series
Jewel thief (Mobley) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After the Army of the Republic destroys her town, Claudie and her sister agree to a mission to deliver a valuable stolen jewel to the resistance's leader and Claudia finds herself irresistibly drawn to the man and his cause.
20) Rebel rose
Author
Series
Queen's council volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Belle and Adam, once known as the Beast, who, soon after their marriage, must take on heavy responsibilities as rulers of Aveyon during the French Revolution.
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