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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Series
The Kithamar trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
446 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure. This is Garreth's. Garreth Left is heir to one of Kithamar's most prominent merchant families. The path of his life was paved long before he was born. Learn the family trade, marry to secure wealthy in-laws, and inherit the business when the time is right. But to Garreth, a life chosen for him is no life at...
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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"Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years,...
5) Blowback
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"No one should be above the law-not even the president-in Blowback, "The perfect beach read for political junkies"(Kirkus). US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure...
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English
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Today our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser that the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. But one advantage is that we can learn from experience. Timothy Snyder discusses how every American can keep themselves informed in order to resist tyranny.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution."--...
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Series
House Atreides volume Bk. 2
Publisher
Abdo Spotlight
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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A violent coup is planned by the emperor's son; eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey.
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House Atreides volume Bk. 3
Publisher
Abdo Spotlight
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
Description
A violent coup is planned by the emperor's son; eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey.
Author
Series
House Atreides volume Bk. 4
Publisher
Abdo Spotlight
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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A violent coup is planned by the emperor's son; eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
x, 572 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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Series
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...