J. Charles
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A political satire follows a haphazard government effort to quell an ensuing crisis when the world's supply of a key pharmaceutical ingredient is depleted at the beginning of a mysterious pathogen outbreak.
4) Watchers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been...
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Carving Out a Humanity gathers some of our country's brightest progressive legal stars in a volume that illuminates the facets of the law that have continued to perpetuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium. Originally delivered as Derrick Bell Lectures in a series at NYU School of Law, begun in 1995 and running up through 2019, Carving Out a Humanity offers an unprecedented array of today's most creative...