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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
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'There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we call the author of War And Peace? [Tolstoy's] senses, his intellect, are acute, powerful, and well nourished...Nothing seems to escape him. Nothing glances off him unrecorded...Every twig, every feather sticks to his magnet. He notices the blue or red of a child's frock; the way a horse shifts its tail; the sound of a cough; the action of a man trying to put his hands into pockets that...
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English
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"The new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after...
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English
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"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 this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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Pink Carnation volume 12
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of Portugal. Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact....
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Sharpe volume 22
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The French army with Napoleon at its head is marching toward Brussels. The British and their allies are also moving in that direction. Sharpe tries to warn the Prince of Orange, commander of Wellington's Dutch troops, but cannot stop the tide of battle.
JUNE 1815: THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, THE PRINCE OF ORANGE, AND NAPOLEON WILL MEET ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND DECIDE THE FATE OF EUROPE. With the emperor Napoleon at its head, an enormous French army...
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Richard Sharpe volume 17
Language
English
Description
With the Duke of Wellington set to invade France, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself without a regiment, and disguising himself as a new recruit, uncovers in England a web of treachery and corruption.
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Sharpe volume 9
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English
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Wellington must call on the only man brave and ruthless enough to win at any cost—Richard Sharpe.
Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington's Peninsular army—vastly outnumbered, its coffers empty—is on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government has fallen, and the last Spanish armies have been crushed by the French. But Wellington has one hope left: in the dangerous Portuguese hills
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Sharp volume 8
Language
English
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Here is one of those rare novels that completely transports the reader to an unforgettable time and place in history.
At Talavera in July of 1809, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but there are others, such as the foppish Lieutenant Gibbons and his uncle, Colonel Henry Simmerson,
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Publisher
Blackstone Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
It was a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe, it was the worst he could remember. He had lost his command to a wealthy man. And from England comes his oldest enemy - the ruthless Hakeswill - utterly determined to ruin Sharpe. Determined to change his luck, Sharpe volunteers to lead an attach on the impregnable fortress - a decision that will lead either to death or heroic glory.
10) Sharpe's siege
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Series
Sharpe volume 18
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1814, the Napoleonic Wars rage on as Britain invades France. Gearing up for a long and bitter winter campaign, Major Richard Sharpe and his company are unwittingly used as diversionary pawns. Faced with taking a French fortress while simultaneously dealing with American mercenaries, Sharpe butts heads with the bungling Captain Horace Bampfylde.
TRAPPED WITH HIS BACK TO THE SEA, MAJOR RICHARD SHARPE AND A HANDFUL OF MEN MUST STAND AGAINST A BATTALION...
11) Sharpe's rifles
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Series
Sharpe volume 6
Language
English
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Sharpe must lead his men through the enemy infested mountains of Spain.
WHEN SHARPE RISES FROM THE RANKS TO TAKE COMMAND, HE FINDS HIMSELF WITH AN UNEXPECTED ALLY IN THE WAR AGAINST NAPOLEON. It's 1809, and the powerful French juggernaut is sweeping across Spain. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful men of the 95th Rifles. He must lead them to safety--and the only way of escape is a treacherous trek through...
12) Sharpe's Enemy
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Series
Sharpe volume 16
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1812, after just being promoted to Major, Richard Sharpe and his company is deployed to the Spanish-Portuguese boarder in an attempt to disband a multinational band of deserters, led by his longtime nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill. Planning to outsmart the renegades by taking their position on Christmas Eve, Sharpe is about to be confronted with the fact that he is surrounded by several French battalions.
13) Sharpe's revenge
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Sharpe volume 21
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It is 1814, and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent--if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops to victory. But before Sharpe can lay down his sword, he must fight a different sort of battle. Accused of stealing Napoleon's personal treasure. Sharpe escapes from a British military...
14) Sharpe's sword
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Series
Sharpe volume 14
Publisher
Chivers Audio Books
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe fights a ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux at the Battle of Salamanca.
15) Nick of time
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Series
Adventure through time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
With the help of Lord Hawke, whose children have been taken by the evil pirate Captain Billy Blood, young Nick McIver uses a time machine to rescue the two children as well as change the course of events in two time periods, the Napoleonic Wars and World War II.
16) The men who lost America: British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire
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Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Weaves together the stories of ten men who conducted the British war effort to provide a unique account of the American Revolution, dispelling myths and uncovering the reasons the rebellious colonials were able to achieve victory.
