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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
3) Dust
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"Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white--everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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"When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper." --
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman-Evangelina Cisneros-who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper...
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"This book poses the question of why revolutions--from the French Revolution through the Russian and more recent revolutions--tend to produce tragic outcomes. As the author puts it: 'I have become intrigued with the idea of writing a short book on why so many revolutions turn into bloody catastrophes. Though a huge amount has obviously been written about revolutions, I think a good short review of why they so often disappoint so badly could find a...
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2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Aladdin is a street rat. There's really no getting around that. Like most, he's just trying to survive another day in impoverished Agrabah. Jasmine is a princess, one who is about to enter into an arranged marriage. All she wants is to escape her fate, to see what lies beyond the palace walls. But everything changes when the sultan's trusted advisor, Jafar, suddenly rises to power. With the help of an ancient lamp, Jafar becomes determined to break...
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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the “essential dimensions” of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides,...
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Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is considered by many to be a masterpiece of political analysis and a compelling rationale against the French Revolution. Originally written as a letter in response to a young Parisian and later expanded upon and published in book format in January 1790, the work has greatly influenced conservative and classic liberal intellectuals and stands as a powerful argument against violent revolutions,...
10) Rebel spring
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Falling kingdoms novel volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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When the evil King Gaius announces that a road is to be built into the Forbidden Mountains, formally linking all of Mytica together, he sets off a chain of events that will forever change the face of this land, forcing Cleo the dethroned princess, Magnus the reluctant heir, Lucia the haunted sorceress, and Jonas the desperate rebel to take steps they never could have imagined.
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Manifold worlds volume 1
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Watkins Media
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"Trapped in a magical realm on the brink of civil war, Saffron Coulter finds her fate intertwined with that of three different women--all rebels--and is bound to them with ties of blood and magic as they all join forces to stop Leoden from ascending the throne."--
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The Founding Father’s most influential work: an impassioned defense of democracy and revolution in the name of human rights.
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
In Rights of Man, Founding Father of the United States Thomas Paine makes a compelling case in favor of the French Revolution. Written in response to Edmund...
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
In Rights of Man, Founding Father of the United States Thomas Paine makes a compelling case in favor of the French Revolution. Written in response to Edmund...
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The overtly obvious and seemingly malicious maligning of our Founders by many Americans within our systems of education, government, and media is being, performed with a greater intensity at the passing of each year. This constant, incessant, and relentless barrage of misinformation and falsehoods about their beliefs, character, and intentions is not only blatantly, unjust on its face it is, being, done to achieve a larger goal. What might that goal...
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There's never been a more comprehensive, more entertaining chronicle of the hippy, revolutionary, incendiary era of the late 60s and early 70s. It's all here – the birth of all the new passions of the period – the counterculture, Black Power, the environmental movement, Women's Liberation, Gay Pride, the animal-rights movement, the Sexual Revolution, the Anti-War movement, and all the new revolutionary organizations – the Black Panthers and...
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Una síntesis magistral de la pasión revolucionaria y sus fracasos en América Latina
Un recorrido por las diez revoluciones latinoamericanas del siglo xx: la mexicana (1910-1940), la nicaragüense de los años veinte, la cubana de los treinta y la de 1959, el varguismo brasileño, el peronismo argentino, la guatemalteca (1944-1954), la boliviana de 1952, la chilena (1970-1973) y la sandinista en 1979.
Traza un perfil desapasionado de sus principales...
17) A La Medianoche
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- A la Medianoche - Es el testimonio personal de Javier Arzuaga, capellán en aquel tiempo de Casablanca, eran los primeros días de la revolución cubana, una desgarradora crónica de aquellos primeros meses del año 59 en la prisión de La Cabaña. Lo que yo escribí nació con espíritu e intención de testimonio. Un grupo de amigos cubanos venía insistiendo una y otra vez: Javier, esos recuerdos no te pertenecen, no tienes derecho a llevártelos...
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Magistral historia de la guerra moderna, esta obra viene a cubrir el vacío que existe en la bibliografía en español sobre la Guerra de Secesión americana. Una perspectiva internacional, desde la visión imparcial de un historiador extranjero.
Para un historiador militar, incluso si se trata de uno de los más prestigiosos del mundo, como sir John Keegan, no resulta fácil decir algo nuevo sobre la Guerra de Secesión, la guerra civil estadounidense....
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Does it really matter what the Founding Fathers believed? Would the discovery of their true beliefs alter the way we think of America? The men and women whom we refer to as the Founders began an unprecedented journey to form and build a new way of life, a new government, and a new country. Determined to establish a free republic founded on principles of liberty, democracy, and reverence for the God who gave them life and liberty, they forged one nation...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of Hilaire Bellocs most influential historical works:
The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry
The Path to Rome
The Old Road
Servile State, The Jews, Servile State, The French Revolution
Blenheim
Tourcoing
Crécy
Waterloo
Malplaquet
Poitiers
First and Last
Europe and the Faith
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church
The Jews
The Historic Thames
A Change in the Cabinet
A...
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