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Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when one of his stories from the Middle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile—haunted by bad decisions and a shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his torment...
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Paula DiPerna's first novel combines historical and scientific fact with a fictional, behind-the-scenes look at what might have been had there been a woman on Columbus's voyages. Christopher Columbus's wife, Felipa Moniz Perestrello, died in approximately 1484. If she had lived, this would be the diary she might have kept while traveling with her husband to the New World. The novel portrays Felipa as a jealous, passionate, and adventurous woman. DiPerna...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
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970L
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English
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A compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.
4) Encounter
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[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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760L
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English
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A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
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[2015]
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"American Secret Service agent John Winters believes that the idea he is a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus is ridiculous. He believes the claims that Columbus had a secret agenda as he set out to discover a New World are likely false. But then again...what if he's wrong?" -- From dust jacket.
17) Navigator
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Time's tapestry volume 3
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2008.
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English
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As the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land, a rogue Spanish priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. Centuries later, in 1492, as men of vision weary of the strife and are drawn to the unknown West, one such explorer seeks the funding for his voyage--while a mysterious...
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