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(0)James Clavell
Author
Series
Asian saga volume 6
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to Noble House, Andrew Cavallan must retrieve his pilots, their families, and the helicopters in his company from Iran when Khomeini comes to power after the revolution against the shah.
4) Shogun
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power.
Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose...
Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 64
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked English adventurer, John Blackthorn, finds himself a key figure in a vast power struggle that is to plunge medieval Japan into civil war. Set in the exotic world of Oriental intrigue, passions, discipline, courage, and rigid moral and martial codes.
Author
Lexile measure
1550L
Language
English
Description
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also relevant economic, political, and psychological factors. Indeed, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu can be applied outside the realm of military theory....
12) The last valley
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When an isolated valley unaffected by the raging war around it becomes a winter haven for a band of mercenaries, violence erupts.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Set during the early China trade when epic adventurers carved dynasties out of barren rock and the opium trade pitted father against son, and friends against one another. For trader Dirk Struan, the silver and opium exchange is almost impossible to resist, but everything comes to a head when he is forced to choose between the ones he loves and profit beyond his imagination.
15) Noble house
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
British tycoon and Hong Kong tai-pan Ian Dunross delves into international espionage and the criminal underworld to fight off a hostile takover of his trading company.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Chamberlain plays Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked on the shores of feudal Japan, who becomes a samurai. Mifune is Toranaga, the warlord driven to become Shogun - supreme military dictator. Shimada plays Mariko, Blackthorn's interpreter and ill-fated lover.
17) Shōgun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of a shipwrecked English navigator who becomes a samurai during a struggle for power by a Shogun and the Emperor in feudal Japan.
18) The Great Escape
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
19) The fly
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
When a scientist attempts to transfer matter through space, things go horrifically wrong and two grotesque man-fly hybrids are created. Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, the scientist desperately hopes that he, his wife and his brother can capture the other mutant and reverse the experiment.
20) The fly
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The fly (94 min.) is the story of a scientist experimenting with the transmission of matter from one place to another. When a housefly accidentally enters the machinery with him, the scientist and housefly are combined into two hybrid creatures. Return of the fly (78 min.) takes up the story of the scientist's son, who continues his father's experiments 15 years later.
