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2) Shardik
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1974
Physical Desc
525 pages : map (on lining papers) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Richard Adams's Watership Down was a number one bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. In Shardik Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world. Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The hero of the story is Beric, a young Briton, currently living under Roman subjugation. After he is raised to the rank of chief among his tribe, known as the Iceni, he and his tribe rise up against Roman rule. The strong but untrained Britons are successful in the beginning of the uprising, but are quickly conquered again by the well-trained legionaries. Beric and his small group of men fight to the last, conducting a sort of guerrilla warfare....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man sets out to Mexico to avenge his father's death in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton.
Nathan Stone, the man they called The Gunfighter, lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. The Sandlin gang kicked up that dust as they rode back laughing into Mexico, where the U.S. law couldn't touch them and local law didn't want to.
Behind him Nathan Stone left his horse, his Winchester, his custom-made Colts,...
Nathan Stone, the man they called The Gunfighter, lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. The Sandlin gang kicked up that dust as they rode back laughing into Mexico, where the U.S. law couldn't touch them and local law didn't want to.
Behind him Nathan Stone left his horse, his Winchester, his custom-made Colts,...
7) Justice!
Author
Series
Wagons west.Empire trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Bantam ed.
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
9) Blood & iron
Author
Series
American empire volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the Great War had ended, Americans find themselves trying to rebuild their lives, and their country, but threats from Canada and Africa may tear their dreams apart.
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture.
Author
Series
American empire volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
503 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
526 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Marooned on the enemy-occupied planet of Marduk, despised royal Brat Prince Roger MacClintock and his Marine bodyguards must march and fight their way through steaming jungles, carnivorous beasts, murderous natives, and perpetual rain to the only starport— which is controlled by the Empire's worst enemies. But neither Roger nor the Marines are about to give up. Marduk, do your worst!
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tale of one family's ambition and of Europe's struggle to emerge from the ravages of the Dark Ages. The Medici used charm, skill, and ruthlessness to garner unparalleled wealth and power, ruling Europe for more than 300 years.
Author
Series
American empire volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
496 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following Blood and Iron and The Center Cannot Hold, The Victorious Opposition triumphantly concludes Harry Turtledove's American Empire trilogy-a masterful saga of alternate history. War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps.
16) The retreat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Battle: A novel that brings French history to life as Napoleon moves in on Russia-where the ultimate test awaits. The French army stands at the gates of Moscow. Exhausted and demoralized, Napoleon's men are a mere fraction of the four-hundred-thousand-strong force that crossed the river Niemen in the summer, just three months earlier. Still, the sight of this famous city feels like a triumph and a chance, at last, to enjoy a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 286 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening examination of Latin America's role as proving ground for U.S. imperial strategies and tactics.
In recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy. In their search for precedents, they invoke the Roman and British empires as well as postwar reconstructions of Germany and Japan. Yet they consistently ignore the one place where the United States had its most formative...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Laurel-Leaf ed.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism has jeopardized our stability. Now, in Nemesis, he shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, both economically and politically. Delving into new areas--from plans to militarize outer space to Constitution-breaking presidential activities...