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1) Believe me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn't easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world. Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he proposed to Juliette two weeks ago, he's been eager to finally marry her, the person he loves more than anything and has endured so much to be with. But with so much chaos...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears-including antiterrorism specialist John Clark-to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he's right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny-and change the face of the world as we know it...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 78
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
After an airliner crashes into the Capitol, killing the president, Jack Ryan, the vice-president takes over. The novel describes Ryan's campaign to impose a right-wing morality on the U.S. and a new order on the world, the latter accomplished with the aid of high-tech warfare. A sequel to Debt of Honor. Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th, before, during and after As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, the author is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, his celebrated commentary provides the most trenchant, pithy, and illuminating perspective in journalism. This book contains the columns he has published about the most...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jo Linden lives in a world where there are no atomic weapons, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is played out in the Pax Games, fought with powerful robotic mecha war machines operated by young pilots. Jo needs the prize money to save her father's mecha repair shop, and keep what is left of her family together, but when competing pilots start dying from poisoning, Jo finds herself caught up in Cold War politics and political...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
The legend of the Trojan War, with its twists of tragedy and powerful portraits of human nature, has transfixed listeners and readers for thousands of years. Now the award-winning author of Bull Run retells Homer's epic poem the Iliad-- ingeniously juxtaposing each episode with newspaper clippings of modern events from the First World War through the Gulf War--to reveal astonishing parallels between the ancient and modern worlds. Young Adult.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores why the Cold War ended, including such reasons as the changing relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, economic problems, and the increase in nuclear weaponry worldwide.
11) Oil
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the petroleum industry, its history, and its key players; examines the relationship between oil, finance, and politics; and explores the future of oil as supplies diminish and global warming threatens.
13) The cold war
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the principal causes and events of the Cold War, the period between 1945 to 1991 when the United States and the Soviet Union kept each other in check through mutual fear and distrust, and considers what the outcome might have been had different decisions been made at crucial points during this time.
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