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Author
Series
Patriots volume 4
Language
English
Description
A survivalist thriller follows the efforts of two American expat families to survive in the midst of a global economic collapse marked by the powerful rise of a radicalized Islamic government.
When a complete economic and social collapse sweeps the globe, a group of American patriots -- thousands of miles away from their families and everything they know -- must fight for their very survival and find their way to safety as the world crumbles around...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the Vermeer painting of the same title, Girl with Pearl Earring, this novel takes the reader inside the world of the 17th century Delft. In seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order -rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant -and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children....
Author
Series
World made by hand novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president, and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. Their challenges play out in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields, and rivers no longer polluted...
6) Burntown
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown." Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night her father Miles drowned in a flood that left her and her mother Lily homeless. A respected professor, Miles was also an inventor of fantastic...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling reeducation compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies. They are forced to carry out grueling physical work and are encouraged to inform on each other for dissident behavior. The prize: winning the chance at freedom. They're overseen by preadolescent supervisor, the Child, who delights in reward systems and excessive punishments. When agricultural...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Author
Series
Sisters in time volume 1931
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries"--
Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the elephant known as the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the way he kills,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
GN 810L
Language
English
Description
"Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s as he looks back on his career, Chan has spent a lifetime making comics in his native Singapore since he was a boy of 16, in 1954. The artist doubles here as both the narrator and the subject matter, as his life story parallels the changes in Singapore over five decades since the war. The evolution of his artwork mirrors the evolution of both his homeland and the comic book medium itself. The myriad...
14) Worlds apart
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Greek
Description
A young college student falls in love with a Syrian refuge. An unhappy sales manager has an affair with a Swedish executive. A German retiree romances a wistful housewife. Their worlds collide in present day Greece against the backdrop of a ruinous financial collapse.
15) One evil summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Summer at the beach and Amanda Conklin's stuck in summer school. Well, atleast she doesn't have to take care of her little brother and sister. That's Chrissy's job. Chrissy seems like the perfect babysitter, but Amanda soon learns Chrissy's terrible secret.
Publisher
The Community Solution
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis, feeding the population, and an ongoing challenge; how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farms and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one"--Back cover.
"Quand Cuba a perdu l'accès au pétrole soviétique au début...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Bianca Bridge has always dreamed of becoming a writer. But Trididadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government official is a surefire way to ruin your prospects. So when Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the island's beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts, realizing that working on his magazine is the closest to her dreams she'll get. As Bianca begins to embrace her power and...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five years after his high school graduation, David Halpert returns to a place that most people flee. But David is making his own escape--from his divorce and the death of his son. In Detroit, David learns about the double shooting of his high school girlfriend Natalie and her black half-brother, Dirk. As David becomes involved with Natalie's sister, he will discover that both he and his hometown have reasons to hope. As compelling an urban...
