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"The latest novel from #1 internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho is a classic of inspiration and reflection, a meditation on life, love, and the significance of change. A novel of philosophical reflection set in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades. Here a community of Christians, Arabs, and Jews who have long lived together harmoniously have been warned of an imminent attack and certain destruction. Contemplating their demise, the...
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Crusades trilogy (Jan Guillou) volume 3
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English
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In the final gripping volume of Jan Guillou's boundary-breaking Crusades Trilogy, exiled warrior Arnde Gotha returns home to Sweden, determined to liberate and unite his homeland in what promises to be his greatest trial yet. Traveling from Saladin's sand-swept Holy Lands to the Scandinavian North, Arn's final adventure is a captivating historical narrative encompassing the struggle for honor, the quest for lost love, and the momentous clash of European...
5) Crusade
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Brethren trilogy (Robyn Young) volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
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English
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The second volume in Robyn Young's internationally bestselling Brethren trilogy, this is gripping historical fiction that reads like tomorrow's headlines - portraying a rising tide of political pressures that led East and West to war in the thirteenth century.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to find his son killed, his wife kidnapped, and his town gutted in the search for a priceless relic . . . and now, he must fight to save everything he holds dear.
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They...
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They...
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Templar trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Viking Canada, Published by the Penguin Group
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English
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William St. Clair faces the end of the Order of the Temple of Solomon. Philip IV has arrested every Templar in France and seized the Order's assets, unleashed the Inquisition, and burned the last Grand Master at the stake.
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Remixed classics volume 3
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Feiwel and Friends
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In this reimagination of the legend of Robin Hood, Rahma al-Hud and her older sister Zeena travel to Jerusalem for a final mission, and on their way they assemble a ragtag band of misfits and get swept up in Holy Land politics.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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When Garron of Kersey returns home from the king's service to claim his title as Baron Wareham, he's shocked to find Wareham Castle very nearly destroyed by a man called the Black Demon. According to the last servants still clinging to life, the Black Demon was looking for gold belonging to Garron's brother Arthur. Among his remaining servants is the enigmatic Merry, the bastard child of the castle's priest. Garron quickly realizes that she is much...
12) Lionheart
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English
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Richard, the second surviving son of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherits the throne from his brother, before embarking on the Third Crusade, a conflict that is complicated by the schemes of his usurping brother, John.
13) Blood red horse
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Series
De Granville trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Walker & Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I againstadin's armies during the Third Crusades.
15) Crusade
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Heretic's secret volume 1
Publisher
Key Porter Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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