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1) Dark watch
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates in the waters of Southeast Asia turn to Captain Juan Cabrillo for assistance, he soon learns that the pirates' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy--a scheme of death and slavery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
4) Asia
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
5) Asia
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles twelve significant natural and man-made places and monuments in Asia, including the Taj Mahal, Mount Everest, and the Great Wall of China, describing their histories and unique features.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Did you know that the komodo dragon can eat 80 percent of its body weight in one meal? Readers will discover this and more in this fascinating title! Bold colors, engaging text, and oversized photos introduce readers to the komodo dragon's body structure, hunting methods, eating habits, social behavior, habitat, and survival threats. In addition, readers will learn about the life of a komodo dragon from baby to independence. A map highlights komodo...
8) No escape
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How far will one man go to protect the ones he cares about most in the world? An intense international thriller, centers on an American businessman as he and his family settle into their new home in Southeast Asia. Suddenly finding themselves in the middle of a violent political uprising, they must frantically look for a safe escape as rebels mercilessly attack the city.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The Harmony Silk Factory and Five Star Billionaire, 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. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?
This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock's...
10) The horse road
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In ancient central Asia, thirteen-year-old Kallisto, a superb equestrian, and her friend must warn their families and protect the Ferghana horses from invading Chinese armies.
12) Swamp tigers
Publisher
HIT Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : ill. ; 19cm.)
Language
English
Description
Footage of two tiger families living in the mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal.
13) Last flight
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon's surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister's eyes from tear gas; sneaking...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
A “fast-moving and highly readable account” of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and its lasting legacy in today’s geopolitical tensions (The New York Times).
An NPR and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year
Nobody expected the events of 1947 in Southeast Asia to be so bloody. The liberation of India and the birth of Pakistan were supposed to realize the dreams of Muslims...
An NPR and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year
Nobody expected the events of 1947 in Southeast Asia to be so bloody. The liberation of India and the birth of Pakistan were supposed to realize the dreams of Muslims...
15) The survivor
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
playaway
Language
English
Description
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archaeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
Traveling to an island in Southeast Asia, archaeologist Riley Smith is aware of the threat from treasure hunters who have no qualms about killing to get what they...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest ArchipelagoIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the Island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world, describing its ancient beginnings, the first human settlers, and historic climbs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.
Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan...
Author
Series
Asian Hall of Fame volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Dao, a red panda, guides Ethan and Emma, two school children, back into time to discover how gunpowder was created in China and how fireworks became popular worldwide"--
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