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Publisher
Legacy/Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
cp2007
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from radio broadcasts from major events of World War II, including speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Charles de Gualle, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Harry S Truman and others.
2) Candide
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Candide, a naive youth, who is conscripted, shipwrecked, robbed, and tortured by the Inquisition without losing his will to live.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Description
"An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo." *** "The voyage of the 'Nautilus' permitted Verne to describe the wonders of an undersea world almost totally unknown to the general public of the period. Indebted to literary tradition for his Atlantis, he made his major innovation in having the submarine completely powered by electricity, although the interest in electrical forces goes back to Poe...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
In a small French village in the years before the onset of World War II, Silvio, a middle-aged man enjoying his wine and his solitude, is drawn back into the life of his family and the village by the arrival of a cousin and the revelation of long-hidden secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Description
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet, who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
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Description
What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only one man has gone before. Jules Verne takes young readers on one of the most incredible journeys ever imagined, from Iceland's frozen tundra far down into fantastic underground prehistoric worlds and back...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, this books tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way; a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food, a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem...
Author
Language
English
Description
Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest...
10) A Paris affair
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An irreverent yet heartfelt collection that examines our most intimate and forbidden desires -- a portrait of the most forbidden of loves, in many different shades.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "Milady." As Clifton Fadiman...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Learning a second language has never been more fun! These simple stories encourage early literacy skills, word recognition, pronunciation, and articulation of sentences in both English and French. Nine stories will become a learning adventure for little ones as they explore animals, things that go, counting, pets, first words, and a fun day at the beach. Then kids will learn how to count from 1-100 in English and in French. Parents and grandparents...
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2009], ©2009
Language
Español
Description
A huge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Arronax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Arronax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Arronax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive--20,000...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
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