Stephen Hoye
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance, to combine all their assets and connections? The potential for profits would be enormous -- and the potential for destruction unimaginable.In the Brave New...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
4) The sea-wolf
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.