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Author
Publisher
Da Capo
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This book is a detailed account of the political affairs of the Mongol Empire and its immense impact on geopolitics and the shape of global power. Primarily covering the Mongol Empire wars with the empires of Persia, Islam, China, and its internal struggles and feuds. The reason and results of the slaughters that took place. The strategies that were used. The betrayals and acts of revenge. The tools used for war. Regions conquered by the Mongols had...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home. Her feelings evolve into a hopeless love, as Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Conn Iggulden has earned sweeping critical acclaim for his Genghis Khan series, which captures the essence of the legendary warrior as no previous novels have. In this breathtaking volume, Genghis must act when trouble brews west of the Mongolian plains. Dividing his army and using his sons as generals, he sets out to accomplish two important goals-conquer those who resist, and determine which son should succeed him.
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Mongol warriors. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Draws on the author's own parallel journey and new evidence to retraces the steps of the medieval Italian merchant who traveled from Venice, through the Middle East and Central Asia, to China and Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a murderer of millions, a brutal oppressor. Yet in his homeland of Mongolia he is the revered father of the nation, and the Chinese honor him as the founder of a dynasty. In his so-called Mausoleum in Inner Mongolia, worshippers seek the blessing of his spirit. In a supreme paradox, the world's most...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press Book
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Shaped by abandonment and betrayal, Temujin endured, driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon. Through a series of courageous raids, Temujin's legend grew until he was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
Description
In 1271 Marco Polo set out on a journey to China to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublaï Khan. He returned with stories that would take a lifetime to tell.
Featuring exotic creatures, strange customs, extraordinary legends, and political intrigues, The Travels of Marco Polo reveals the fantastical treasures of the East in the words of the legendary medieval explorer.
Conjuring up a forgotten world filled with mystery where wonder lurks around every...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream...
11) The kite rider
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Named Temujin at birth by his nomadic family in early Mongolia, the great Genghis Khan used his skill and cunning to create the Mongol Empire and conquer almost the entire continent of Asia. As ruler of the largest empire in human history, he was as respected as he was feared.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1241. The Mongol horde lead by cruel khan Burunda moves west, destroying everything in its path. Reaching the Carpathian mountains, the troops camp right below. However, at night several local hunters, the Berkut brothers, secretly enter the camp and free the hostages. Consumed with rage, the khan decides to take revenge and destroy the Carpathian settlements. A traitor amongst the locals tells the Mongols about a secret passage inside...
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the thirteenth-century Chinese emperor which offers a more complete picture of the man than books which treat him as just a supporting player in Marco Polo's adventures.
Author
Publisher
Goosebottom Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the life of the thirteenth-century princess whose wisdom led her to personally rule over a large area of Mongolia and Northern China, and to see to it that her four sons all became great leaders within the empire.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her sixth grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool, England, named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school uniforms, and British slang.
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination Station, to thirteenth-century China, where they meet Marco Polo and Kublai Khan and are mistaken for Christian shamans.
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