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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
'There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we call the author of War And Peace? [Tolstoy's] senses, his intellect, are acute, powerful, and well nourished...Nothing seems to escape him. Nothing glances off him unrecorded...Every twig, every feather sticks to his magnet. He notices the blue or red of a child's frock; the way a horse shifts its tail; the sound of a cough; the action of a man trying to put his hands into pockets that...
7) War & peace
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but naive Natasha. As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the horrors of the battlefield reach into the elegant ballrooms...
9) Jesse's star
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In his major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in "War and Peace, " Lieven provides an examination of the period from the Russian perspective, demonstrating that Napoleon's defeat in 1812 by the Russian army was just the beginning of what would be the longest military campaign in European history.
Author
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish girl who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. Even from behind the throne, a woman can rule. Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia's most compelling women, who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall...
Author
Publisher
Singing Dragon
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suitable for those considering options for treatment, as well as those wanting to know more about the Alexander Technique, this book presents readers with a definitive overview of the Alexander technique which teaches us how to co ordinate mind and body effectively so that our thinking is clarified and our movements become naturally lighter.
Author
Series
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies volume Volume 22
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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