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Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
"A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II. It picks up right where the first book left off, and continues up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 448 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become 'history' at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it. In less than a generation, the headlong advance of globalization, with the geographical shifts...
Author
Publisher
Hearst Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Reveals predictions made in 'Popular Mechanics' magazine between 1903 and 1969 about what the future would hold! Surrounded by wonders and a fast-evolving culture of innovation, it's just as chalenging today for us to imagine the next century as it must have been for our early 20th century colleagues to envision the fabled year 2000."-- P. 6.
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 423 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing from Life magazine and the greatest photo archives of our time, this book chronicles our century by way of an unparalleled collection of photographs.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on a field trip to a museum, a young boy encounters Albert Einstein, who gives him a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century.
15) Mein Jahrhundert
Author
Publisher
Deutscher Taschenbuch
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Ungekürzte Ausg.
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
Deutsch
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1963
Physical Desc
416 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
An anthology compiled from Vogue magazine of seven momentous decades of the names, the faces, and the writing that have held the public eye in the arts, society, literature, theatre, fashion, sports, and world affairs.
17) The way we lived
Author
Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
American ed.
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
Español
Description
"When the theater director Noelia Cid was commissioned to premiere Sortilegio, the lost work of the renowned playwright Gregorio Martz Sierra, she decided to research it using the documents kept by his wife, MarLejaga. However, through her research, Noelia not only immerses herself in the complex love relationship between Marand Gregorio, but also encounters a mystery that has been unsolved for more than a century. She'll then be carried away by the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1. ed. Vintage Español
Physical Desc
957 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"En el año 1933, Berlín es un foco de agitación política y social. Lady Maud, ahora la esposa de Walter von Ulrich y madre de dos hijos, publica en una revista semanal artículos que ridiculizan al Partido Nazi, mientras que Walter manifiesta su oposición en el Parlamento. Sin embargo, parece que nada podrá frenar el poder ascendente de Adolf Hitler. Cuando Ethel Williams y su hijo Lloyd visitan a la familia Von Ulrich, todos serán testigos...
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
559 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 1850 and organized by decade, 6,000 timeline entries cover events year by year in the categories of science, medicine, and technology; religion, philosophy, and education; history and politics; business and commerce; daily life and society; and the arts. In addition, 300 spotlight articles explore, in greater detail, the most intriguing events of each decade. Augmenting the text are thousands of photographs, drawings, and paintings"--From...
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