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Author
Series
World made by hand volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The residents of Union Grove, New York, struggle to get through early spring after a local tycoon halts the Hudson River trade route in the fourth and final installment of the series.
Author
Series
Legend (Lu: Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
June and Day's hopes for peace are shattered by a plague outbreak that renews warfare throughout the panicked Colonies, a situation that forces the Republic to consider a means of defense that threatens everything Day has worked for.
Series
Sidney Poitier collection volume disc 3
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the British East Africa country of Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie and Kimani have maintained their deep friendship, even though they have differences in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau spread violence and terror in an effort to sweep the British from the land, and the uprising destroys their magnificent homeland. The men discover that even the strongest bond may be stronger than the beat of the drums or the...
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2014, ©2014
Physical Desc
1 CD (1.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The award-winning Radio Diaries documented the struggle against apartheid through first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela, his friends, and enemies. Includes a lost recording of his 1964 trial, guerilla soldier marching sons, a secret tape of a visit between imprisoned Mandela and his family, and first-person accounts from former activists, politicians, army generals, prisoners, and other witnesses to history.
86) Pan's labyrinth
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. A young girl goes to live with her mother and her new stepfather on a rural military outpost. Following her discovery of a labyrinth and the local group of resistance fighters, she is involved in a series of strange encounters.
87) Skyhunter
Author
Series
Skyhunter duology volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable....
88) The Lost
Author
Series
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
89) Prodigy
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
90) City of secrets
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like his new identity--by the underground, he navigates the...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (8 hrs., 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise to power. June, Lucke, and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite with Hannah.
92) Gnomon: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
661 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody...
Author
Series
Robyn Hoodlum adventures volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
355 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
When Nott City is taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown, and her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees for her life and joins a group of children trying to take back what is rightfully theirs in this futuristic retelling of Robin Hood.
94) Crossed
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2013, c2011
Physical Desc
367 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Determined to finish her mother's mission, Lan seeks to destroy the legendary four Demon Gods, while Zen, who made a perilous pact with one of these demons, seeks to use their power to save his kingdom and the girl he loves.
98) Iron gold
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Series
Formats
Description
A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society, and abolish the color-coded caste system. But the Rising has shattered everything, and brought endless war. New foes emerge to threaten what has been earned, and throughout the worlds other destinies entwine with Darrow's to change his fate forever. A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp, and achieves for herself a new life she could...
99) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (110 min.) : blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, 2027. It's been eighteen years since baby Diego was born and now he is dead. As humankind faces extinction, a disillusioned Theo becomes an unlikely champion when he is asked by his former lover to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for.
Author
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are...
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