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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old mermaid princess Lana reluctantly visits her mother on land for the Royal Festival after her mermaid-father appoints her a royal ambassador, but when an earthquake strikes back home and Lana is forbidden to go back home, she discovers nefarious forces may be at work against her kingdom.
2) Munich
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
516 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journalist and former U.S. State Department official, Ronan Farrow, explores the decline of American diplomacy and traditional statecraft, the abdication of global leadership, and how the work of peacemaking has been taken over by the military-industrial complex.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 499 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Henry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy "Leaders," writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, "think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily...