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1) The stranger
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Everyman's library volume 139
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
2) The plague
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1070L
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English
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"The people of Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, are in the grip of a deadly plague that condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. The plague begins with a series of unheeded warnings: panic, isolation, and claustrophobia soon follow, as the townspeople are force into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror."--Provided by publisher.
"The...
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English
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Lt. Mellie Blake is a nurse serving in the 802nd Medical Squadron, Air Evacuation, Transport. As part of a morale building program, she reluctantly enters into an anonymous correspondence with Lt. Tom MacGilliver, an officer in the 908th Engineer Aviation Battalion in North Africa. As their letters crisscross the Atlantic, a friendship between the two develops; and when they're both transferred to Algeria, they're poised to meet face-to-face for the...
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English
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Sarah Ruden's fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine's intent than any previous version. It puts a brilliant spotlight on the life of one individual to show how all lives have meaning that is universal and eternal. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine tells the story of his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. He describes his ascent from a humble farm in North Africa to a prestigious post in...
5) Algeria
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
After more than 100 years of French rule, the nation of Algeria achieved independence in 1962 after a long, difficult war. Today, the largest country in Africa is a land of vibrant culture. Readers will find out how people live in Algeria, from what they eat and how they dress to how their government works and what kinds of jobs drive the national economy. They will also get a close look at the country's beautiful natural landscapes, plants, and wildlife....
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English
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A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.
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English
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The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West
First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In November 1942 the Allies are poised to liberate Algeria from the Vichy French regime, a client state of Nazi Germany. This will squeeze Rommel's Afirka Korps between two forces and sweep him from North Africa. But no one knows whether the French will greet the Americans as friends or foes. Based on family connections rather than experience, Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston, has become General Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal investigator....
10) Of gods and men
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Français
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Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may. Includes bonus...
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English
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Brian Moore's suspenseful works, including The Statement, are international bestsellers, and three of his novels have been nominated for the Booker Prize. The Magician's Wife is an exotic tale of intrigue set in the age of Napoleon III. It received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Monsieur Henri Lambert is a world-famous magician. Because his carefully rehearsed performances astound even the most critical audiences, the Emperor...
12) Two testaments
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Secrets of the cross trilogy volume 2
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English
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"The slightest spark will ignite an explosion. And the tinderbox of broken political and racial relations in 1960s France and Algeria provides plenty of kindling. In the midst of the chaos, Gabriella Madison guards the orphans in her care while battling jealousy with Anne-Marie Duchemin, David's former flame who has recently arrived in Castelnau, France. Even more problems arise when the townspeople start expressing their discomfort with the multicultural...
13) The last one
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English
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"Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity-French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian. The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo, and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a...
14) Two Crosses
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Secrets of the cross trilogy volume 1
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English
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In 1960s France, Gabriella Madison stumbles into intrigue, danger, and secrets in the shadowy underground of war. Refugees, smugglers, and operatives together reveal powerful lessons in woundedness, forgiveness, and faith.
15) Algeria
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Algeria is an African country with a long history. This book explores Algeria and examines its place in the global community. Presenting a comprehensive overview of the country that is sure to engage young readers, the book studies aspects such as geography, economy, language, and leisure activities." -- Publisher's website.
17) Algeria
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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This book briefly examines the history, people, and environment of the country of Algeria.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafš. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Algerian War for Independence sent Naïma's grandfather on a journey, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant barely scratching out a living in the north. Naïma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but...
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