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1) Swan song
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Series
Language
English
Description
After years living in America with his mother, Jon Forsyte is excited to be home and eager to show off his roots to his new bride. When Fleur Forsyte, now Fleur Mont Jon s first love hears of his arrival, she doesn't know what to feel. She is now married too, and while Jon and Fleur try to interact as friends, their strong feelings for one another are not easily contained. When their passion is rekindled, no one can halt the devastating events that...
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the Roman Catholic Church from its origins to the present, discussing the role of the Pope, the schisms that split the Church, and its role in the twenty-first century.
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Modern Library
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 14
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 15
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
Description
"In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare?s England, vividly portraying London?s society, its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as...
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Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 11
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter...
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Modern Library chronicles volume 23
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 29
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 32
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
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Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 34
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English