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Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleons invasion of Russia, "War and Peace" is often considered the greatest novel ever written.
Set in Russia during the Napoleonic era, this epic novel follows the fortunes of five aristocratic Russian families over the course of the French invasion. Tolstoy's timeless portrayal of the fates of families set against the backdrop of war is ultimately optimistic and life-affirming, with the educated, but socially...
3) Air war!
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
4) Gettysburg
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
6) Lincoln
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the institution of slavery in the United States, abolitionism and other resistance movements, and the structure, as well as some outstanding people involved with, the Underground Railroad.
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A detailed account of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest war fought on American soil, plus an examination of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address.
Series
Star wars volume VI
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Limited ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Luke Skywalker rescues his friends, Han Solo and Princess Leia, from Jabba the Hutt, and wages his own battle against Darth Vader.
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
396 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War. The author has done extensive research around the lives of military women during the Civil War for a nonfiction title and became inspired to share their stories in a fictionalized depiction based on her historical research. Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing...
12) The Last Jedi
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Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
KNIGHT OF RECKONING
The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But...
KNIGHT OF RECKONING
The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But...
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Series
Heroines behind the lines Civil War volume 2
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Physical Desc
381 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a horrific battle rips through Gettysburg, the farm of Union widow Liberty Holloway is turned into a Confederate field hospital, bringing her face to face with unspeakable suffering-- and a Rebel scout who awakens her long dormant heart. As Liberty's future crumbles and her home is destroyed, the past comes rushing back to Bella, a former slave and Liberty's hired help, when she finds herself surrounded by Southern soldiers, one of whom knows...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The New York Times Best Seller
Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2.
Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of...
Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2.
Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of...
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Series
Heroines behind the lines Civil War volume Book 3
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Language
English
Description
She hid from her past to find a future--and landed on enemy soil. When soldier Caitlin McKae woke up in Atlanta after being wounded in battle, the Georgian doctor who treated her believed Caitlin's only secret was that she had been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. In order to avoid arrest or worse, Caitlin hides her true identity and makes a new life for herself in Atlanta. Trained as a teacher, she accepts a job as a governess to...
16) Spy of Richmond
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Series
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Trust none. Risk all. Richmond, Virginia, 1863. Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever. But she can't do it alone. Former slave Bella Jamison sacrifices her freedom to come to Richmond, where her Union soldier husband is imprisoned, and her twin sister still lives in bondage in Sophie's home. Though...
Author
Series
War volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
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Series
War war war volume 1
Language
English
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"In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during...
19) Trial by fire
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Based on a true story--P.T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home islands of Japan-and victory. At the heart of the fleet are...