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Revisit the timeless classic in this graphic retelling of Tolstoy's celebrated 1869 novel.
In this beautifully rendered graphic adaptation, both fans and newcomers alike will be immersed in the world of War and Peace, one of the most celebrated novels of all time, about the misadventures of about the misadventures of Pierre Bezúkhov, Natásha and Ilyá Rostóv, and company during the Napoleonic era of Russia.
With richly detailed settings re-creating...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Everyman's library volume 41
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English
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Poet-physician Dr. Zhivago moves his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be safety in the Ural Mountains during the Russian Revolution, only to become caught up in the battle between Whites and Reds, and to fall in love with Lara, a nurse.
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Since her police-officer husband Eric's mysterious murder, Carly Harris has been struggling to support herself and their infant son. Her career as an antique dealer isn't sustainable, nor is her dream of becoming a novelist. So when her grandmother proposes she and her two sisters restore the family's large Beaufort home and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, she immediately gets to work clearing out the house. In the process, she uncovers a family...
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Mack Bedford novels volume 4
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English
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In a near-future world where Israel and the United States have eliminated nuclear threats in Iran and North Korea, Russia plots an aggressive military campaign against America, prompting U.S. Navy SEAL Mack Bedford to conduct a world-changing defense mission.
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Shadow of liberty volume 1
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Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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Russians series (Judith Pella) volume 2
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Nick Flynn novels volume 1
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English
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After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynns not the type to fade quietly into obscurity... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
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Winternight trilogy volume 2
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English
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"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
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Codebreakers (Roseanna White) volume 3
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English
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A skilled cryptographer, Zivon Marin fled Russia determined to offer his skills to the Brits. Lily Blackwell is recruited to the intelligence division to help the war with her unsurpassed camera skills. But when her photographs reveal Zivon is being followed, his loyalty is questioned and his enemies are discovered to be closer than he feared.
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 22
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English
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Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor - especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
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English
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the world's first psychological thrillers. A mesmerizing detective story with an intriguing and multifarious central character, Crime and Punishment hinges on the ethical dilemmas and angst of the student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov who plans and implements the murder of a ruthless pawnbroker. Rodion convinces himself that in killing her he will both solves his financial problems
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"CIA officer Tommy Carmellini takes on a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia, to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself---putting Admiral Jake Grafton, the head of the CIA, in the crosshairs of an assassin. With the help of his mentor Jake Grafton, up to now Carmellini has always managed to foil his...
17) Treasure of Khan
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 19
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994.
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English
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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karamazov and his most ferociously funny. For alongside its relentlessly escalating plot of conspiracy and assassination, Demons...
19) Molly's pilgrim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Told to make a doll like a pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.
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[2018]
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"Did Anastasia Romanov survive the Russian Revolution, or was Anna Anderson, the woman who notoriously claimed her identity, an impostor? Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. Germany, February...
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