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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
3) Ink Girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The most important lessons that Cinzia has learned as a printer's apprentice are: Nothing stays secret for long, and nothing is more important than telling the truth. But uncovering secrets and telling the truth can be dangerous. Not everyone likes it. Especially not those in power.
When her mentor is imprisoned for publishing accusations against the ruling family, Cinzia will do anything to prove that Mestra Aronne only told the truth. She never...
Author
Series
Widowland volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. The year is 1953. Edward VIII and Wallis are preparing for their coronation, and the country is tense with expectation. In honor of the event, Adolf Hitler will be making his first visit to the UK since its surrender to the Germans in 1940. One oppressive change conforming with Nazi ideology is the strict classification of women into hierarchical groups, ranging...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser's star is on the rise. She's filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown (albeit under a male pseudonym), her relationship still makes her weak at the knees, and the science fiction romance she's writing on the side, "The Lunar Housewife," is going swimmingly. But when she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats,...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the principal at Lupton Academy posts a "prohibited media" hit list, Clara Evans is horrified. Titles like "Their eyes were watching God" and "The perks of being a wallflower" have been pulled from the library and aren't allowed on the school’s premises. Students caught with the contraband will be punished. Clara starts an UnLib-- an underground library-- in her locker. When one of the books she loves most is connected to a tragedy she never...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature. Twilight of the Eastern Gods is Kadare's fictionalized recreation of his time spent at this "factory of the intellect," a place created to produce a new generation of poets, novelists, and playwrights, all adhering to the state-sanctioned 'socialist realist' aesthetic. During his time at the...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication.
The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney And Personal Advisor-The Man Who Helped Get Him Into the Oval Office
Once Donald Trump's fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried.
This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century....
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak's much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world. Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as...