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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control,...
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Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Most of the Church's senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon in Burgundy, where Pope Urban's renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican's would-be usurper Borja, plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war. Fortunately, Urban has up-time help relying on Cardinal Protector Larry Mazzare's theological savvy, Sharon Nichol's medical skills, and a small contingent...
4) Steeplejack
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different communities live and work alongside each other. The white Feldish command the nation’ s higher echelons of society. The native Mahweni are divided between city life and the savannah. And then there’ s Ang, part of the Lani community who immigrated over generations ago as servants and now mostly live in poverty on...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
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Description
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history-the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president-is soon to be an HBO limited series.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a...
Author
Series
Steeplejack volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Anglet Sutonga, a former Steeplejack, must pose as a foreign princess to catch the thief who stole the government's plans for a secret weapon. Yet Ang has other things on her mind as well. Refugees from the north are trickling into the city, but an ambitious politician is proposing extreme measures to get rid of them, and when Ang discovers that one theft could spark a conflagration of conspiracy that will threaten the most vulnerable of Bar-Selehm,...
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