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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
A beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona. This features the Left Bank of Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain. It is the story of flamboyant Lady Brett Ashely and the hapless Jake Barnes in an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions.
Author
Series
Série Do Saber volume 10
Publisher
U. Porto Editorial
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Portuguese
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Reino de Castilla, 1283 d. C. Alvar Le̤n de Lara, cardenal de la curia, vuelve a petici̤n de su antiguo mentor a la abad̕a que fue su hogar, que abandon̤ veinte ąos atr̀s con el alma rota por un amor imposible. Su maestro desea revelarle algo que cambiar̀ el curso de la cristiandad. in embargo, la llegada de Alvar desencadenar̀ la tragedia: enigmas tras puertas ocultas, cr̕menes inexplicables, s̕mbolos que conducen a pistas y pistas que...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
14) La peregrina
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
agosto de 2018.
Language
Español
Description
Isabel San Sebastián vuelve a la novela histórica con una nueva aventura de Alana de Coaña, La visigoda, su personaje más famoso, y nos ofrece un viaje fascinante al origen de un camino que cambió la historia del mundo. Año 827. En su pequeña corte guerrera, Alfonso II el Casto, rey de Asturias y aliado de Carlomagno, recibe una extraordinaria noticia: en un bosque próximo a Iria Flavia, allá donde termina el mundo, han aparecido...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of the remarkable visionaries who have quietly dedicated their lives and their fortunes to saving the planet from ecological destruction. While many people remain paralyzed by the scope of Earth's environmental woes, eco barons--a new and largely unheralded generation of Rockefellers and Carnegies--are having spectacular success saving forests and wildlands, pulling endangered species back from the brink, and pioneering the clean and green...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of Queen Victoria's matchmaking exploits details how she used her grandchildren to further the influence of the British Empire, despite their own plans and the turmoil that rocked Europe starting in the nineteenth century.
