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Wayward Pines volume 3
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English
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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...
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"Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow ("4: Take responsibility for the face of the world"), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent ("11: Investigate"),...
3) Winter's end
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
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.
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Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
�2013.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2250, the Council controls the world's fresh water sources. To keep the peace they have, through years of indoctrination, weeded out all emotion--or so they thought. Luca is the son of the Deliverer--who will one day himself have to travel underground and negotiate with the Rat Men for fresh water--and he seems to have retained his emotions. Which makes him dangerous in the eyes of the Council.
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Series
Founding of Valdemar volume 3
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The refugees from the Empire have established a thriving city called Haven with the help of the Tayledras and their allies. But the Tayledras have begun a slow withdrawal to the dangerous lands known as the Pelagirs, leaving the humans of Haven to find their own way. But even with Haven settled, the lands around Haven are not without danger. Most of the danger comes in the form of magicians: magicians taking advantage of the abundant magical energy...
10) The dangerous case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Explores the consensus of more than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that President Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation. --Publisher
"Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which...
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Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented view of modern day Iran from one of its own sons, award-winning Iranian author, Amir Ahmadi Arian, told directly to the American reader. A powerful and harrowing psychological portrayal of an individual struggle against the state written in the tradition of The Stranger and 1984, THEN THE FISH SWALLOWED HIM is an urgent exposé of how power can bend reality and the people forced to live within its parameters"--
12) Briar girls
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lena has a secret: the touch of her skin can kill. Cursed by a witch before she was born, Lena has always lived in fear and isolation. But after a devastating mistake, she and her father are forced to flee to a village near the Silence, a mysterious forest with a reputation for luring people into the trees, never to be seen again… Until the night an enigmatic girl stumbles out of the Silence and into Lena’s sheltered world. Miranda comes...
14) The dangerous case of Donald Trump: 37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books and imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants. He lashes out. He threatens violence. He holds rallies...
16) Grace
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Grace travels on a decrepit train toward a border that may not exist, recalling events that brought her to choose life over being a suicide bomber, and dreaming of freedom from the extremist religion-based government of Keran Berj.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On the Marble Cliffs (Auf den Marmorklippen) is a novella by Ernst Jünger published in 1939 describing the upheaval and ruin of a serene agricultural society. The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the rough pastoral folk in the surrounding hills, who feel increasing pressure from the unscrupulous and lowly followers of the dreaded head forester. The narrator and protagonist lives on the marble...
18) Bloodthirsty
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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From the masters of American frontier storytelling, another chapter in the Buckhorn saga-a blood-pounding tale of one man's sacred mission to bring justice to the American west, the only way he knows how.
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