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IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
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A two-part book in which French investigative journalist Maurice Rajsfus, who survived the 1942 "Black Thursday" roundup at Vel d'Hiv of 13,000 Jews, recollects events that day and uses meticulous research of police archives to make a damning inquiry of Vichy/police collaboration, examining the implementation of the Yellow Star, France's culpability in the Holocaust, and the influence of right-wing media.
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