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Author
Series
Seven faceless saints volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Damian Venturi brought a murderer to justice, but he suspects there was a cost he's not prepared to pay. As he struggles to act the competent officer again, he's plagued by inescapable dark thoughts--thoughts that make him wonder if he's truly in control of himself. Roz Lacertosa should feel victorious. Her father's killer is dead, and the rebels have forced the Palazzo's defects into the spotlight. Yet the war with Brechaat rages on, and the city's...
Author
Series
Loom saga volume 3
Publisher
Silver Wing Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Loom burns. Nova bleeds. The war for the fate of both rages. A new rebellion has risen from the still-smoldering remnants of the Five Guilds of Loom to stand against Dragon tyranny. Meanwhile, on Nova, those same Dragons fight amongst themselves, as age-old power struggles shift the political landscape in fateful and unexpected ways. Unlikely leaders vie for the opportunity to shape a new world order from the creations of one temperamental and lethal...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
During a visit to the cinema in West Berlin, high school students Theo and Kurt see dramatic newsreel footage of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest. Back at school in Stalinstadt, they spontaneously decide to hold a moment of silence in solidarity with the victims of the uprising. The gesture causes bigger ripples than expected.
5) Last light
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in the universe of the best-selling game follows the experiences of maverick detective Veta Lopis of the Gao Ministry of Protection, who would capture a serial murderer and prevent full-scale war between the military and insurrection loyalists.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hunger games: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. She must make impossible choices in the arena...
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Description
Shuri has returned changed with mysterious supernatural powers, but Wakanda has changed too. She works to appease her restless countrymen, from conversing with philosophy professor Changamire whose teachings inspired rebel leader Tetu, and dealing with the rogue Dora Milaje, led by Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
T'Challa calls upon his crew--Luke Cage, Misty Knight, Storm, and Manifold--to find a hidden base of operations for a rebel group; Shuri's spirit travels the Djalia with a Griot in the form of her mother, who has been imparting the collective knowledge of Wakanda's ancestors.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
T'Challa has revived his sister and helped Shuri return to the physical world with Wakanda's collective knowledge and new abilities, but their victory is short lived. A rebellion ravages the kingdom while T'Challa's attention has been worn thin, but the faction led by Tetu and Zenzi and the Midnight Angels struggle to make a formal alliance.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
The Midnight Angels sever their ties to the royal government and rebuke Tetu's alliance. T'Challa asks Changamire to speak out against the atrocities commited in his name. But the gears of war still turn as Wakanda's forces prepare for the final battle at the Golden City.
Author
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Es la mąana de la cosecha que dar̀ inicio a los Ďcimos juegos del hambre. En el Capitolio, Coriolanus Snow, de dieciocho ąos de edad, se prepara para la oportunidad ͠nica de alcanzar la gloria como mentor de los juegos. La casa de los Snow, antes tan influyente, atraviesa tiempos dif̕ciles. por lo que su destino, por lo que su destino depende de que Coriolanus consiga superar a sus compąeros en encanto, ingenio y estrategia como mentor...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Friend soon uncovered efforts by...
15) Rednecks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history. Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars-from the Matewan Massacre through the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed conflict on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Pinquickle's Folly, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns to his signature world of Corona, introducing a dynamic new part of the southern coast never written of before as a great starting place for readers in the DemonWars Saga: The Buccaneers. The first adventure in the Buccaneers trilogy begins in the free sea outside of the control of the usurping Xoconai empire, where the dwarven powrie pirates and merchants sail. But the...