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Series
Kingsbridge volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
Author
Language
English
Description
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. A s Napoleon’s...
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Tragedy has struck His Majestyś Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend Englandś shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons ́ranks--forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected--and stand as the only means of an...
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service--and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. For Britain, conditions are grimmer still: Napoleonś resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleonś prime objective: the occupation of London. Separated by their own...
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 7
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Capt. Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again take to the air against the broadsides of Napoleon's forces and the friendly -- and sometimes not-so-friendly -- fire of British soldiers and politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason. For Laurence and Temeraire, put out to pasture in Australia, it seems their part in the war has come to an end just when they are needed most. Newly allied...
7) The passion
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
160 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 8
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East. Age-old enmities and suspicions have turned the entire region into a powder keg ready to erupt at the slightest spark -- a spark that Laurence and Temeraire may unwittingly provide, leaving...
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 9
Language
English
Description
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia has been roundly thwarted. But even as Capt. William Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the retreating enemy through an unforgiving winter, Napoleon is raising a new force, and he’ll soon have enough men and dragons to resume the offensive. While the emperor regroups, the allies have an opportunity to strike first and defeat him once and for all — if internal struggles and petty squabbles don’t tear them...
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire and Laurence - stripped of rank and standing -- have been transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia, where, it is hoped, they cannot further corrupt the British Aerial Corps with their dangerous notions of liberty for dragons. Temeraire and Laurence carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert...
11) My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French and beheaded in full view of her friends and crew.
Inconceivable? Yes! The truth is she's secretly forced to pose as an American dancer behind enemy lines in Paris, where she entices a French general into revealing military secrets—all to save her dear friends. Then, in intrepid Jacky Faber style,
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Publisher
A & E
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Loyalty: Peacetime (1807) Hornblower forced to make a living at the gaming tables and caught up in a budding romance with his landlady's daughter, Maria. Hornblower goes on a reconnaissance mission that uncovers French perfidy, leading to renewed war. Complications arise when he is betrayed and temporarily imprisoned. Hornblower and Maria get married. Duty: Admiral Pellew's sends Hornblower off in search of his old mate Bracegirdle, whose sloop Grasshopper...
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 15
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
351 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The tiny village of Andrados becomes an unholy battleground as rival forces fight to control the Gateway of God, an out-of-the-way pass through the mountains of western Spain.
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 9
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982, c1981
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe's secret mission pits him against the French under Napoleon and also against the guerilla leader El Catolico.
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 17
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sharpe must return from Spain to London to investigate why his supply of recruits has dried up. It's 1813, and Sharpe discovers a corrupt political enemy has diverted his recruits to sell them at auction. When he gets close to the source, the ring leaders try to kill him. Sharpe risks charges of treason to expose corruption at the highest level. The novel exposes the recruiting practices that, in fact, scandalized England and brought down prominent...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1981
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the army of Napoleon at Talavera in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, the men's resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must fight to redeem the honor of his regiment.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 13
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
280 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be in the leading edge of battle.
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 18
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2001, c1987
Physical Desc
319 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1814 Richard Sharpe and his small force of Rifleman face overwhelming odds after being abandoned deep in French territory.
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 16
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
320 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The war in Spain is drawing to a close for Wellington, but in 1813 Napoleon's guileful intelligence agent conceives a devious plan to force Wellington out of Spain without a musket being fire.
20) Flying colours
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1938
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the war-weary empire behind him. Even if Hornblower escapes...
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