Ken Follett
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Series
Kingsbridge volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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English
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A prior, a master builder, and their community try to build a cathedral to protect themselves while Stephen and the Empress Maud fight for the crown of England. Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent cathedral with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.
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Kingsbridge volume 3
Language
English
Description
"International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
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Century trilogy volume 2
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...
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English
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann 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
Kingsbridge volume 5
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
Author
Series
Century volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
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English
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Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.
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...
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...
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets...
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets...
9) Whiteout
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"Everyone likes a page-turner, and Follett is the best." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A hell of a storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly), #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new novel. But nothing matches the intricate knife-edge drama of Whiteout. . . .
A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director...
"A hell of a storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly), #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new novel. But nothing matches the intricate knife-edge drama of Whiteout. . . .
A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director...
10) Night over water
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes to the skies in this classic novel of international suspense. Set in the early days of World War II, Night over Water captures the daring and desperation of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances—in prose as compelling as history itself. . . .
September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world's most luxurious...
September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world's most luxurious...
11) Hornet flight
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
Ken Follett and the intrigue of World War II—"a winning formula" (Entertainment Weekly) if ever there was one. With his riveting prose and unerring instinct for suspense, the #1 New York Times bestselling author takes to the skies over Europe during the early days of the war in a most extraordinary novel. . . .
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the...
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the...
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Series
Language
Deutsch
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Nach DIE SÄULEN DER ERDE und DIE TORE DER WELT der neue große historische KINGSBRIDGE-Roman des internationalen Bestsellerautors.
1558. Noch immer wacht die altehrwürdige Kathedrale von Kingsbridge über die Stadt. Doch diese ist im Widerstreit zwischen Katholiken und Protestanten zutiefst gespalten. Freundschaft, Loyalität, Familie - nichts scheint mehr von Bedeutung zu sein. Auch der Liebe zwischen Ned Willard und Margery Fitzgerald steht der...
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Kingsbridge volume 4
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English
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"It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided...
14) Never
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English
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Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the country's first women president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful counties that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
15) Nålens Öga
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Swedish
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Ken Folletts succéthriller "Nålens öga" för första gången som ljudbok på svenska.
En osynlig spion har befunnit sig i England sedan trettiotalet. Han är Hitlers mest pålitliga ögon och öron. Spionen går under namnet Nålen och under våren 1944 är han ett av Tysklands mest värdefulla och farligaste vapen. Hemlig information om Englands stundande invasion har nått honom, och Europas öde ligger i hans händer.
Det brittiska kontraspionaget...
16) Þrenning
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Icelandic
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Frá meistara njósnasagnanna kemur bók um best geymda leyndarmál 20. aldarinnar - byggð á sönnum atburðum.
Árið er 1968 og Egyptar eru að byggja sér kjarnorkuvopnabúr. Nágrannaþjóðin Ísrael vill ekki verða útundan, svo þau senda leynivopnið, njósnarann Nat Dickstein, til Egyptalands. Dickstein ræðst ekki á garðinn þar sem hann er lægstur, heldur dregur hann upp áform um að stela úraníum frá Egyptum og koma því til...
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Swedish
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1914. Europa balanserar på kanten till världskrig, och Englands sista hopp är en allians med Ryssland. Adelsmannen Walden kastas in i händelsernas centrum med ett kritiskt uppdrag från Churchill: att säkra en allians genom känsliga förhandlingar med tsarens utsände, Orlov.
Under tiden smyger sig en vessla in i Europas hjärta. Anarkisten Feliks, med sina rötter i S:t Petersburg, har kommit med ett mål – att döda Orlov och sätta Europas...
18) Víkingasveitin
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Icelandic
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sispennandi saga sem er byggð á sönnum atburðum.
Árið er 1978 og mikil ólga ríkir í Íran. Eftir röð afdrifaríkra atburða í höfuðborg landsins er ljóst að óvild í garð Bandaríkjanna fer vaxandi.
Í umróti byltingar eru tveir bandarískir viðskiptamenn ranglega fangelsaðir. Þegar Ross Perot, stjórnarformaður EDS, fær fréttirnar, leggur hann drög að djarfri áætlun til leysa þá úr haldi.
Í framhaldinu leggur hópur...
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Swedish
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Ken Folletts succéthriller "I minnets labyrint" för första gången som ljudbok på svenska.
Januari, 1958. En man vaknar på en järnvägsstation i Washington DC. Han minns ingenting – inte hur han kom dit, var han bor eller ens sitt eget namn. Men när han får syn på en tidningsnotis om en satellituppskjutning väcker det minnen till liv.
Sakta kommer han till insikt om att någon haft skäl att låta honom drabbas av minnesförlust, och att...
20) Triangeln
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Swedish
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Ken Folletts succéthriller "Triangeln" för första gången som ljudbok på svenska.
1968. Israel står på randen till undergång när Egyptens planer på att färdigställa en atombomb närmar sig fullbordan. För att ge sitt land en chans är Israels enda alternativ att snabbt bemästra kärnvapentekniken, men den avgörande komponenten uran fattas.
Mossads främsta operativ, Nat Dickstein, tar sig an uppdraget som verkar omöjligt: att i det...