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1) My century
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of intertwining stories, each with a differnt narrator, which combine to chronicle the major and minor, events, occurrences, developments, of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak. . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families -- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh -- as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nathan Nelson is the average son of a genius. His father, a physicist of small renown, has prodded him toward greatness from an early age -- enrolling him in whiz kid summer camps, taking him to the icy tundra of Canada to track a solar eclipse, and teaching him college algebra. But despite Samuel Nelson's efforts, Nathan remains ordinary. Then, in the summer of 1987, everything changes. While visiting his small-town grandfather in Michigan, Nathan...
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