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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II. 1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A division of the spoils : The chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of Raj--and represents the end of an era.
The towers of silence : Follows the decline of Barbie Batchelor, a one-time mission-school teacher, as the Anglo-Indian world begins to collapse around her.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?
5) Celia Garth
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king's army captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost. But when Francis Marion, a...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 292
Publisher
Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"These two classic novels, together with Charlotte Bronte's well-known Jane Eyre and Villette, comprise a magnificent oeuvre, each one a singular achievement of characterization, human understanding, and narrative elegance and drama.".
"Shirley is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the many failures of the greatest economic system in history, and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Western society, once thriving, is being torn apart by deep new rifts in its social and economic fabric. It's now populous cities versus rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less educated; wealthy versus developing countries. As these breaks have...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future. In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political discontent the likes of which had not been seen since the 1960s. The spark was the viral video of the horrific police murder of an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis....
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents;...
Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brilliant lawyer...A new and very important book. I would encourage all people...to read!"—President Donald J. Trump
"Absolutely amazing.... If you care about justice...read this book."—Sean Hannity
"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else."—Politico
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders...
"Absolutely amazing.... If you care about justice...read this book."—Sean Hannity
"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else."—Politico
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968, an episode she's managed to keep secret for more than forty years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she's about to let the world in on that shocking secret, as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions. Today, only a handful of people...
13) Nicotine
Author
Language
English
Description
Inheriting her hippie father's childhood home in New Jersey, a young woman who has rebelled against her family her entire life arrives at the house and encounters a group of charming anarchist squatters who share her political beliefs and fervent approach to life.
The conventional one in a non-conventional family, Penny Baker inherits her father's childhood home in New Jersey. She finds the property not overgrown and abandoned, but occupied by a...
Author
Publisher
Ocean Sur
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager-and thus a letter writer-for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught...
16) Poesía completa
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Gathers the noted Argentine author's thirteen books of verse, from "Fervor de Buenos Aires," first published in 1923, to "Los conjurados," from the year before his death, which display such themes as books, memory, labyrinths, and mirrors.
17) Rancho de Amor
Author
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a last-ditch effort to save a New York publishing house facing imminent closure, editor Catherine Doyle travels across the country to the small town of Sisquoc, California, in search of the famous Loretta de Bonnair, an elderly recluse and breakout author of the bestselling self-published romance novel that has the nation in a fervor. Instead, she runs into nothing but dead ends with a handsome cowboy who she's not sure if she should trust"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In early twentieth-century Russia, Sashenka Zeitlin becomes caught up in the revolutionary fervor destined to bring down the czar, as she deals with arrest and imprisonment by the czarist's secret police, the bloody battles that engulf the country under the brutal leadership of Stalin, marriage and motherhood, and a forbidden love affair."-- provided by publisher.
Publisher
Hoffman Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Whether it is a passion for exquisite linens, sterling silver, or fine English china--or simply the thrill of the hunt--that entices us to sift through old attics and antiques shops, estate sales, and European brocantes, we are kindred spirits, linked by an unbridled fervor for curating our favorite things.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on his years of first-hand reporting across China, including insights from scholars and diplomats and analyses of official speeches and documents, a Wall Street Journal correspondent provides a broad, lucid account of China's leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his Party, his nation and beyond.
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