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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy's master epic.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish girl who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. Even from behind the throne, a woman can rule. Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia's most compelling women, who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists argue that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander, a highly trained neurosurgeon, was one of them. Then his own brain was attacked by a rare illness. Dr. Alexander's recovery is a medical miracle -- but not the real miracle. While his body lay in a coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world with an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence,...
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Language
English
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
"Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
" In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander--poet, mother, and wife--finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 49. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a re-energized devotion to her two teenage sons, Alexander channels her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose that describes a very personal and...
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Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 21
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion.
14) The crossover
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Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Series
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The whaleback ship reflected the experiences of its inventor, Captain Alexander McDougall, who decided in the 1880s that he could build an improved and easily towed barge cheaply by using the relatively unskilled labor force available in his adopted hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. Captain McDougall's dream resulted in the creation of the American Steel Barge Company. From 1888 to 1898, the American Steel Barge Company built and operated a fleet of...
16) Matthew Henson
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Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants Ellen to speak up in support of his claim to the patent...
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Language
English
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A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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