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Author
Series
Wayward Pines volume 3
Language
English
Description
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town's creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get them killed. But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying...
4) Winter's end
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.
Author
Language
English
Description
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...
Author
Series
Ambler's travels volume 3
Publisher
Ka'u Choices Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Economic collapse has forced sweeping confiscations of real and personal property. The United States converts to a fully managed economy. Much of the population has been forced into, concentrated into, camps in warmer states. A desperate newly autocratic government has created a reformed education system, gigantic make-work salvage operations, and required jobs training programs. Restructuring is rigorous. Stringent military style law enforcement...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Commencing in 'our times' and set in the fictional 'Free Republic of Aburiria, ' Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mozaic, this magnificent novel reveals humanity in all its endlessly suprising complexity."--Cover.
Publisher
World Peace Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Identifies and characterizes the most repressive states and singles out which are aggressive. Defines the actions constituting repression and proposes a method of measuring human rights violations, presenting an index of nation-state repressiveness. Offers a way to decide which repressive and rogue states are most deserving of strong policy attention"--Provided by publisher.
10) Indomitus
Author
Series
Warhammer 40 volume 000
Publisher
Black Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Indomitus Crusade begins! For nearly ten years, the Indomitus Crusade has waged a war of defiance and reconquest in the war-torn Imperium. Attached to Crusade Fleet Quintus - dubbed the Cursed Fleet by many - the Ultramarines of the Ithraca's Vengeance are drawn to a stricken world. With millions enslaved, a malign necron technology siphons the souls of the innocent and heralds the Silent Kingdom's expansion. The Ultramarines face an impossible...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical -- even during the driver's strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his. Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined...
Author
Series
Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte volume Band 11
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
18) There is no evil
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a piercing drama about a subject he knows well: the costs of living under a repressive, brutal government. Winner of the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, There Is No Evil is a film in four chapters, each telling a different story related to the death penalty in contemporary Iran. The first story concerns a family man who, as we come to see, pays a grave moral price for his comfortable middle-class...
20) Into the west
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as empty...