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Author
Series
Founders trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Having narrowly saved the metropolis of Tevanne from destruction, Sancia Grado and her allies have turned to their next task: sowing the seeds of a full-on magical-industrial revolution. If they succeed, the secrets behind scriving--the art of imbuing everyday objects with sentience--will be accessible to all of Tevanne's citizens, much to the displeasure of the robber-barons who've hoarded this knowledge for themselves. But one of Sancia's enemies...
22) Early warning
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the Eighties.
23) The lost child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of Wuthering Heights traces the multigenerational forces that shape the lives of a young Heathcliff, the Brontë sisters and their brother.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. His commitment to reforming the justice system and making America a more equitable place has brought challenges and triumphs, soaring victories and crushing defeats. Throughout his wide-ranging activism, King's commentary remains rooted in both exhaustive research and abundant passion....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jemima Kincaid is a feminist, and she thinks you should be one, too. Her private school is laden with problematic traditions, but the worst of all is prom. The guys have all the agency; the girls have to wait around for "promposals" (she's speaking heteronormatively because only the hetero kids even go). In Jemima's (very opinionated) opinion, it's positively medieval. Then Jemima is named to Senior Triumvirate, alongside superstar athlete Andy and...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When middle school journalist Riley Dunne learns that an important and beloved club is being shut down, she uses the power of the pen to instigate much-needed social change.
Riley Dunne loves being a member of the Red Club. Its more than a group of girls supporting each other through Aunt Flos ups and downs; its a Hawking Middle School tradition. The clubs secret locker has an emergency stash of supplies, and the girls are always willing to lend...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1150L
Physical Desc
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 499 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case scenarios of a post-Roe America, and offers ways to fight back, including: how to acquire financial support, how to use existing networks and create new ones, and how to,...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The companion to Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger's #1 New York Times bestseller, She Persisted. Perfect for tiny activists, mini feminists and little kids who are ready to take on the world. Now abridged as a board book for our youngest feminists and activists! Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster from the perspectives of six of her first-class passengers--a...
35) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Steven Brill examines how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few. Covering the years 1967 to 2017, Brill shows us how America's core values -- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself -- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Karen Hunter Publishing/Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Filled with anecdotes, statistics, and social commentary, the first Muslim elected to Congress presents a thought-provoking look at America and what needs to change to accommodate different races and beliefs.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Redefines the tumultuous 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the rebellious children of the greatest generation, to reveal how American social, political, economic, and cultural institutions were transformed by an era of dramatic change.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone wants the same things: To live a life of purpose and meaning. To leave a legacy for their children and grandchildren. To leave the world a better place. And yet people spend so much time wringing their hands over what's wrong and not nearly enough time fixing those things within their control. Rather than waiting on Washington, the solutions happen once people become leaders in their own lives and communities. Here, Kasich shares the ten...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xv, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the population attends some form of higher education. What are the effects of such radical, large-scale change? David Baker argues that the education revolution has transformed our world into a schooled society-that is, a society that is actively created and defined...
40) Blackfish City
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...