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Author
Series
Empress of a thousand skies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Empress Rhee, also known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta{u2019}an, is the sole surviving heir to a powerful dynasty. She{u2019}ll stop at nothing to avenge her family and claim her throne. Fugitive Aly has risen above his war refugee origins to find fame as the dashing star of a DroneVision show. When he{u2019}s falsely accused of killing Rhee, he's forced to prove his innocence to save his reputation {u2013} and his life. With planets on the brink...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster.With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West) voice Marc Lamont Hill and New York Times bestselling author...
25) With liberty and justice for some: how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A book that shows us how to work through thorny moral questions by examining their parts in broad daylight, equipping us to not only identify our own positions but to defend them as well. It demonstrates the relevance of philosophy to our everyday lives, and offers some clear-eyed tools to those who want to learn how to better fight for justice and liberation for all"--
28) The climate book
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts -- geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders -- to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster"--
30) If I run
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Casey Cox's DNA is all over the crime scene. There's no use talking to the police; they have failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she's arrested--or worse. The truth doesn't matter. But what is the truth? That's the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey."--Jacket.
31) Borderline
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet Marty--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... Meg--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... Lily--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... Cassie--the redhead with her own private agenda... and Weaver--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive and approachable guide to understanding and working toward racial justice, with tools to start making a difference today. We live in a divided and polarized time. Previously ignored racial and social tensions have erupted around the world in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Covid-19, climate change, and the Trump presidency. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? We can start by learning and listening to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
France Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Who has power? Who creates the rules? How do identities intersect? In this next book in the Empower the Future series, explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilsons lived experience, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond to calls to action and form your own views on the F word. This book is for everyone. Discover...
34) Noor
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1898
Language
English
Description
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds. In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry argues that these beliefs couldn't be more wrong--and that the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. She presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness--one that will give us a better...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain. And Nelson "Nails" McKenna has been his enforcer since he was a teenager, though his heart's not really in the dirty work. Then one night in a local roadhouse, Nails goes too far, defending a woman, and even Burroughs's reach can't get him out of this one. With a dead body and countless witnesses, Nails and the woman become fugitives on the run, and unlikely partners....
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the activism involved in the ongoing fight for racial justice in the United States. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, a time line, a Think-About-It section, and an index."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Dandelion dynasty volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Wily, charming Kuni Garu--a bandit--and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu--the son of a deposed duke--seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, soaring battle kites, underwater boats, magical books, shapeshifting gods, and scaled whales who seem to prophesy the future. Once the emperor has been...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Centered on sermons and lectures by the Rev. Dr. William Barber, leader of the Moral Monday, Forward Together Movement in North Carolina, this book advocates a broad-based moral movement for economic and social justice, rooted in the fundamental American values of freedom, justice, and equality for all"--
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