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Safehold series volume 2
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English
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Lately the island kingdom of Charis has rejected the Church's authority. Charis has repelled the Church's first attack and is preparing to strike back. Yet not all those who support the Church are corrupt, and the Church stands ready to use the faith and belief of those blameless souls for its own cynical ends. The gauntlet has been cast down, and full-scale religious war - the ugliest war of all - looms over Safehold. To prevail, King Cayleb of Charis...
3) Far and near
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Marcus, Lee, Austin, and Violet are starting over.
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Series
Safehold series volume 5
Language
English
Description
Since declaring its independence from the Church of God Awaiting, the island Charisian Empire has always had to fight to survive. But most of its subjects don't know how much more they're fighting for.
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Series
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English
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A tale inspired by the lives of Borgia siblings Lucretia and Cesare traces the family's rise in the aftermath of Rodrigo Borgia's rise to the papacy, during which war, a terrifying sexual plague, and the family's notorious reputation forge an intimate bond between brother and sister.
7) Box out
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
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High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide participation.
8) The prince
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1510L
Language
English
Description
Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be...
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Poisoner mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Before the Tudors, there were the Borgias. More passionate. More dangerous. More deadly.
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Series
Poisoner mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Mistress of death Francesca Giordano--court poisoner to the House of Borgia--returns to confront an ancient atrocity that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge the world into eternal darkness. As the enemies of Pope Alexander VI close in and the papal court is forced to flee from Rome, Francesca joins forces with her lover, the brilliant and ruthless Cesare Borgia to unravel a conspiracy that strikes at the heart of Christendom....
11) Seek and hide
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English
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Six years ago, the government took control of the church. Only re-translated Bibles are legal, and a specialized agency called the Constabulary enforces this and other regulations. Marcus Brenner, a new Christian, will do anything to protect his church family from imprisonment--including risk his own freedom to gain the trust of a government agent. Aubrey Weston recanted her faith when the Constabulary threatened her baby. Now released, she just wants...
13) End of state
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Series
End of state volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Brad has struggled with his faith for years, but as he searches for his family, the truth becomes clear. He discovers the darkest days may lie ahead as the world takes sides in the war for the destiny of humankind.
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Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story describes the rise of a police state in North America in which every level of society is infected with propaganda, confusion and disinformation. Few people are equipped to recognize what is happening because the culture of the Western world has been deformed by a widespread undermining of moral absolutes.
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The latter part of the 1600's in Scotland has become known in the annals of time as the 'Killing times'. This story is based on the lives of these brave Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters, their object being to release their beloved Scotland from the strangling grasp of an English king, King Charles II, who claimed he had a 'Divine Right' to rule both church and state--from p. [4] book cover.
18) Blood & beauty
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
"By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate...
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