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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Conrad's classic tale tells of Marlow's journey through the Congo in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. During his adventure, Marlow finds himself questioning his own nature and values as well as those of his society. Illus. 144pp BRODART CO., c2005.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips. Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch. "Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence," wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz. Originally published in 1902,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain's leading military historian Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain's most decorated and respected World War II historians, he argues that this was the "last imperial war," with almost a century-long lead-up of global imperial expansion, which reached its peak in the...
24) Engines of chaos
Author
Series
Age of uprising volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Torwyn burns as Sanctan Egelrath tightens his grip on power. The Draconate Ministry has gathered its forces, determined to eradicate the Guilds, but Rosomon Hawkspur still stands in their way. Her only hope could lay with Lancelin Jagdor, sent to gather allies in their struggle against the usurper. Can even the greatest warrior in Torwyn hope to succeed with so many adversaries determined to stop him? Tyreta returns home with newfound strength and...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France-all without destroying itself in the process? In...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, are anxious about the future of the "land that we love." In America's Expiration Date, trusted political commentator Cal Thomas offers a diagnosis of what's wrong with the United States and prophetically reminds us that change will come when Americans look to God instead of Washington"--
There is a deep-seated feeling that we need to improve our country. Our culture is increasingly immoral, the...
28) Into the west
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as empty...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest - until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...
Author
Series
Age of uprising volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The nation of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, and their responsibility is to keep the gears of the empire turning. It's exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is sent to the distant frontier to earn his stripes in the military. It is here that he faces a threat he could have never seen coming:...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire. Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder." John Perkins should know--he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island base, it operated on a shoestring with the help of local...
33) Legacy of war
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 18
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The war is over, Hitler is dead, and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe. Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Explores the historical development of American culture and how elements of what has made the United States a leading player in world affairs, including economic liberalism and free enterprise, have ultimately contributed to its decline.
35) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
Author
Series
Masquerade (Seth Dickinson) volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Baru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people--even her soul. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment...
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