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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an American war correspondent reporting on World War I, has been tasked to follow a man named Brauer, a German intellectual and possible covert SS agent, into perilous waters aboard the ship Lusitania, as the man is believed to hold information vital to the war effort. Aboard the Lusitania on its fateful voyage, Cobb becomes smitten with famed actress Selene Bourgani, who for some reason appears to be working with...
Author
Series
Houdini & Nate mysteries volume 2
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 2
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 2
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 2
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While traveling to England with his mother and great-aunt on the ocean liner Lusitania in 1911, thirteen-year-old Nate, delighted to find that the Houdinis are also on board, finds himself involved in another dangerous adventure as he and Houdini try to find the man responsible for attempting to assassinate another passenger--President Theodore Roosevelt.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...
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