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62) Listen, Slowly
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
-- Inside Out & Back Again is an irresistibly charming and emotionally poignant tale about a girl who discovers that home and culture, family and friends, can all mean different things.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Asia is the world's largest continent, both in land area and in population. But did you know that in India alone, people speak more than 1,000 languages? Or that not everyone agrees about which countries should be considered part of Asia? Learn more about the diverse continent of Asia, from its people and countries to its landforms, economy, and more.
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"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for...
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Pub. Date
1974.
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Description
Robert Stone's National Book Award-winning novel Dog Soldiers trades on a hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a place in which all honor and morality are ceded to the mere business of survival -- and, better, survival with personal profit. "This is the place where everybody finds out who they are," says the novel's protagonist, the journalist Converse, to which his friend and partner in crime Ray Hicks replies, "What a bummer for the gooks." Converse...
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A photographic journal of the experiences of filmmaker David Breashears, who, with a team of climbers, ascended Mount Everest in 1996 for the purpose of recording the climb with an IMAX motion picture camera. Includes an account of the tragic deaths of eight climbers who were trapped on the mountain during a blizzard.
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In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India...
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Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must explore an ancient culture and steal a Clue guarded by thousands of the world's best-trained soldiers. It's the most dangerous Clue search yet ... and it may mean the end for Amy and Dan.
69) King Rat
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory.
71) Tokyo dreaming
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
72) On China
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A compelling depiction of a man's act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in flux. Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means who favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?"--
74) Asia
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Explores the history and geography of Asia, including the countries located there, climate, natural resources, economy, and more! Includes landmark and animal profile special features"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 19
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In this first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords. He shares...
Author
Pub. Date
2009, ©2008.
Description
While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual connections, the different regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with commerce, international diplomacy, and the brisk exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a look at Asia...
80) Introducing asia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c.2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces young readers to the continent of Asia through age-appropriate maps, engaging photographs, and simple text.