Robert Harris
Author
Publisher
Robert Harris
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With this origami folding book, learn how to create original animals, birds, follower ... that are as beautiful as the treasures they hold! Step-by-step diagrams, instructions, and photographs of the finished projects will show you how to make origami that are both decorative and interactive. The benefit of Origami is being proven especially in the area of math, science, art, creativity and logic thinking. In addition, this can be a mindfulness therapy...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--
3) Munich
Author
Language
English
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of the ancient Roman orator from his beginnings as a young lawyer through his competitions with Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus in the political arena.
5) The ghost
Author
Language
English
Description
Having served as Great Britain's longest-enduring prime minister, Adam Lang accepts a large cash advance to write a tell-all memoir of his life and controversial political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.
6) Conspirata
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 63 BC, Cicero stands supreme as the senior consul of the Roman Republic. But jealous rivals--from the ruthless and debauched to the fanatical and psychopathic--plan to destroy him and seize power. Thwarting their evil machinations will require all the skill and craft Cicero can muster.
10) The second sleep
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to...
13) Pompei
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.
14) Dictator
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles. His comeback requires wit, skill and courage - and for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator...
15) Conclave
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Pope is dead. Behind locked doors of the Sistine chapel, 118 cardinals from around the world will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men, but they are men of the world, and they have rivals. And over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
16) Act of oblivion
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's November 1944. Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides in the...