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Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This rhyming non-fiction picture book tells about Thomas Jefferson's quest to find a woolly mammoth to disprove French Count Buffon's assertion that the animals of the New World are weak"--
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mystery volume 17
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has spent years unraveling his tragic past, and now what has been done in the dark will come to light in this gripping new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of What the Devil Knows. March, 1815. The Bourbon King Louis XVIII has been restored to the throne of France, Napoleon is in exile on the isle of Elba, and Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has traveled to Paris in hopes of tracing...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"United in sisterhood by birth and marriage, Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots; and Mary Tudor, Queen of France immediately recognize each other as both allies and rivals in the treacherous world of court and national politics. Their bonds extend beyond natural and expeditious loyalties, as romance, scandal, war, and religion inextricably unite these three for better or for worse"-- Adapted from Booklist.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The nineteenth century in Europe was the first age of cultural globalization--an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming national barriers and creating a truly pan-European canon of artistic, musical, and literary works. By 1900, people across the continent were reading the same books, looking at the same art, and attending the same opera performances. Acclaimed historian Orlando Figes moves from...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In 1660, the Restoration of Stuart Monarchy in England returns Frances Stuart and her family to favor. Frances discards threadbare gowns and goes to gilded Fontainebleau Palace, where she soon catches the Sun King's eye. But Frances is no ordinary court beauty--she has Stuart secrets to keep and her family to protect. King Louis XIV turns vengeful when she rejects his offer to become his Official Mistress. He sends her to England with orders to seduce...
187) The assassin's curse
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.
188) Marie Antoinette
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.
189) Viceroy's house
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because he was a colored boy and had, allegedly, whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till, chose to display her son's brutalized face in a glass-topped casket, "so the world can see what they did to my baby." Emmett Till's murder and his mother\'s refusal to allow his story to be forgotten have become...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry and knights, comes the story of the four daughters of the count of Provence whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily. From a cultured childhood in Provence, each sister was propelled into a world marked by shifting alliances, intrigue, and subterfuge. Marguerite, the eldest, whose resolution and spirit...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Crossfire Trail: A mysterious drifter is deteremined to keeep a promise that he'll protect a man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the man's motives; and an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch for a takeover.
Last stand at Saber River: An ex-Confederate cavalryman turned homesteader thinks he'll resume a quiet life in Arizona with his wife and children. But one more battle looms when he finds Union sympathizers...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Hunchback of Notre Dame: Quasimodo is the kind hearted but misshapen bell ringer of Notre Dame who must fight to defend his friend Esmeralda and the people he loves.
Hunchback of Notre Dame 2: Quasimodo must protect the cathedral's most famous bell and find true love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Discusses the life of Louis Pasteur, who invented the process that eventually bore his name, pasteurization, and who also created a vaccination for rabies, and studied cholera, anthrax, and other deadly diseases.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. Includes information about the history of the period, a family tree, and contemporary portraits.
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