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21) Mr. President
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece-the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism-in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. A Penguin Classic. In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
Imagine Donald Trump as a woman, called Donna. Would Donna Trump have been viewed as blunt, honest, and refreshing? Would she have won the election? Imagine Hillary Clinton as a man. Howard Clinton says and does the exact same things as Hillary. Would Howard Clinton have been portrayed in a thousand pinterest images as a witch, stirring a cauldron or riding a broomstick? Would he have been called a bitch on countless T-shirts? Would his thoughtful,...
Author
Series
House immortal volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
To protect the people she loves, Matilda Case, one of the immortal galvanized, must stop the reoccurrence of an ancient time experiment, which gifted her and the other galvanized with immortality, in order to save the world from utter destruction.
25) Jade legacy
Author
Series
Green Bone saga volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now known and coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides, from traditional forces such as governments, mercenaries, and criminal kingpins, to modern players, including doctors, athletes, and movie studios. As the struggle over the control of jade grows ever larger and more deadly, the Kaul family, and...
26) The jump
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The stress of an oil refinery being built in their backyard, threatening their families' livelihood, prompts four working-class teens to join a dangerous scavenger hunt where the reward of power could change their families' fates and save the city they love so much.
Author
Series
Kindom trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is...
Author
Series
House immortal volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A galvanized woman with an endlessly repairable body, Matilda Case stumbles into an alternate time line that should not exist and, to save the world where her loved ones and friends are alive to survive, she must find a way to stitch together time once and for all while being hunted by a madman. By the national best-selling author of Infinity Bell.
Author
Series
Walking Dead series volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. The violent dictatorship within Woodbury all comes to a head.
31) Star eater
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she's able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day duties, the reality of preserving the Sisterhood of Aytrium's magical bloodline horrifies her. She wants out, whatever the cost. So when a shadowy cabal approaches Elfreda with an offer of escape, she leaps at the opportunity. As their spy, she gains access to the highest reaches of the Sisterhood, and...
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education. Businesses that rig the economy. Public policy that stifles opportunity and emboldens the extremes. As a result, this country is quickly heading toward a two-tiered society. Today's challenges call for nothing short of a paradigm shift...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the populist left and right offers a searing indictment of the managerial elite. Mainstream politicians and pundits explain today's populist unrest as a simple divide between "winners" and "losers." They recognize that globalization has created massive inequalities, but these are inevitable, they say--and the best we can do is throw a sop to the "deplorables" to keep them from revolting. But what...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class. Revealing and timely, this work will speak to young people who are engaged more than ever with the world around them, or to anyone who believes in a more just existence for all. Readers will be fascinated by...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his New York Times bestselling book The End of Power, Moisés Naím examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power, Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors that...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America's security state first started to weaponize these channels after 9/11, when they seemed like necessities to combat terrorism--but now they're a matter of course. Multinational companies...
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