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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease -- or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those...
9) I am Radar
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital's electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the staff sees a healthy baby boy-with pitch-black skin-born to the stunned white parents. No one understands the uncanny electrical event or the unexpected skin color. "A childbirth is an explosion," the ancient physician says by way of explanation. "Some shrapnel is inevitable, isn't...
Publisher
Jack Van Impe Ministries
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
New world order rising provides evidence from scripture and recent events which signal the establishment of a one-world government and the return of Jesus Christ. In Dictator of the new world order, Drs. Jack and Rexella Van Impe identify the major events which must take place before the leader of the new world order can be revealed, illuminate the main characteristics the Bible predicts he should have and explain the likelihood that he could come...
12) Things to come
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.
13) Attack!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Captain Cooney's cowardice forces Lieutenant Costa into a fateful choice: continue to risk the lives of his men or take the life of the captain.
15) We Germans
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the throes of the Second World War, young Meissner, a college student with dreams of becoming a scientist, is drafted into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front. But soon his regiment collapses in the face of the onslaught of the Red Army, hell-bent on revenge in its race to Berlin. Many decades later, now an old man reckoning with his past, Meissner pens a letter to his grandson explaining his actions, his guilt as a Nazi participator,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into monumenal revolution. But none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. In 'The Great Upheaval', acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization.