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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through engrossing tales of palace intrigue, glorious battle, and the real lives of people who held unfathomable power. He trains his eye on founders of humble origin, like Sargon, the Mesopotamian cupbearer sent to help defeat a rival who returned with an army to dethrone his own king, and Liu Bang, a peasant who became a rebel leader and founded the Han dynasty....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying, and inspiring characters that everyone should know. The giant characters of history--from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Pol Pot, Shaka to George Washington, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan--lived lives of astonishing drama and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, but they also formed our world and will shape our future. In this eclectic and surprising...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When shy, quiet Shylo overhears the plan of a band of ratzis to embarrass the Queen, he must travel to Buckingham Palace and convince the Royal Rabbits of London to stop them.
Author
Series
Royal rabbits of London volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Shylo Tawny-Tail is proud to call himself one of the Royal Rabbits of London, a secret order who live under Buckingham Palace and protect the Royal Family.. But high up in London's famous skyscraper, the Shard, the Ratzis are devising an evil plot to cause chaos during a visit from the President of the United States. And when the Ratzis attack the Grand Burrow and kidnap Shylo, it looks as though they might succeed. Can Shylo escape in time to save...
