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Series
Everyman's library volume no. 174
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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Compelling, exotic, and suspenseful, Heart of Darkness is far more than just an adventure story. The novel explores deep into the dark regions of the hearts and souls of its characters and into the conflicts prevalent in more "primitive" cultures. It is also a striking picture of the moral deterioration that can result from prolonged isolation.
Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the Congo where he once
...2) The capital
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria's most creative thinkers, moved to the EU's headquarters in Brussels for an enthralling, wine-soaked tour of supranational institutions. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed "the first great EU novel" (Politico). At the heart of a cast as diverse as the union itself...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the 'land of the free,' and yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A concise history of the uprising challenges popular academic views to reveal how the Boxers nearly defeated imperial powers, offering insight into their successes and role in inspiring subsequent generations of Chinese nationalists.
6) NVK
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-end nightclub in Shanghai. While there, he meets a strikingly beautiful young Western woman called Naemi Vieno Kuusela. The physical attraction between them proves irresistible, and they embark on an intoxicating affair. But Naemi is not what she appears to be... To Zhang's surprise, she veers between passion and wariness, conducting the relationship entirely...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of India After Gandhi: a group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and people other than their own"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...
Author
Publisher
All Persons Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
Columbus assured Spain's Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand that he'd conquer "Espąola" with little opposition from its inhabitants, but he soon discovered the promise ominously false. A historical novel, Columbus and Caonab̤: 1493-1498 Retold dramatizes his invasion of the island on his second voyage and the bitter resistance mounted by its Ta̕no peoples, led by the Ta̕no chieftain Caonab̤. Based closely on primary sources, the story is told...
11) The Great Wall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across thousands of miles of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean?...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn,...
16) Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
Author
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a refuge for the governments and armed forces...
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a refuge for the governments and armed forces...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Details the other revolutions during 1776, including the reaction of the native residents of San Francisco in the wake of the first European settlement there and the devastation of the Aleutian Islands by the Russians' hunt for sea otters.
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