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81) The kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
An elite FBI team is sent to Saudi Arabia to stop a killer before he strikes again, when a bomb goes off in an American housing compound. Includes deleted scenes, featurettes, commentary, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces the former first lady, senator and secretary of state while describing how she became a role model for women as a lawyer, a staunch supporter of important political and social causes, and the first woman to run as the Democratic candidate for president.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books Cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
"So much of what we hear about China and Russia today likens the relationship between these two autocracies and the West to a "rivalry" or a "great-power competition." Some might consider it alarmist to say we are in the midst of a second Cold War, but that may be the only responsible way to describe today's state of affairs. What's more, we have come a long way from Mao Zedong's infamous observation that "political power grows out of the barrel of...
86) Traitor
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Poland, 1944. After the Soviet liberation of Lwów from Germany, the city remains a battleground between resistance fighters and insurgent armies. Tolya Korolenko is half Ukrainian, half Polish, and he joined the Soviet Red Army to keep himself alive and fed. When he not-quite-accidentally shoots his unit's political officer in the street, he's rescued by a squad of Ukrainian freedom fighters. They might have saved him, but Tolya doesn't trust them....
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book • A prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax.
"A gripping, deeply human account... Moving, elegiac." —The New York Times Book Review
The story has...
"A gripping, deeply human account... Moving, elegiac." —The New York Times Book Review
The story has...
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy's most powerful shipbuilders"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A special audio presentation of unabridged selections personally chosen by David McCullough. The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring-and until now, untold-story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him. In 2020, Pius XII's archives were finally opened, and David I. Kertzer--widely recognized as one of the world's leading...
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