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Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Lisbeth Salander-- the heart of Larsson's two previous novels-- lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce...
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English
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"The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. This Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages, making it the perfect gift book. Born in the United States, raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd lacks a sense of home in either. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who...
3) Bog child
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"The film considers the unparalleled stretch of violence during the 20th century as a single, unrelenting 'war of the world' that began with Japan's invasion of Russia in 1904 and continued through the Korean War all the way to an ongoing 'Third Word's War'"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Tanya Selvaratnam met Eric Schneiderman, they fell quickly and effortlessly in love-fueling each other's growing political ambition. But their power dynamic soon took a dark turn, as Schneiderman criticized Selvaratnam and began to try to control her, even telling her that he would have to kill her if they broke up. Sex turned frighteningly violent. At a friend's urging, she opened up to a domestic violence expert, who confirmed what Selvaratnam,...
8) China room
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English
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"A transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contemporary Indian diaspora Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend their days hard at work in the family's "china room,"...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Historian Fergusson provides a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale...
10) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction-a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly "parties of interest" to the government tell their stories. A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Colombia is in chaos, caught in a bitter war between its government and insurgent guerrillas. A team of U.S. Navy SEALS are sent on a secret mission to observe a meeting between the factions and ensure peace is the end result. But when the meeting is attacked and the leaders of both sides are murdered, the SEAL team is framed for the assault. Abandoned by their own government and trapped behind enemy lines, the group must survive long enough to find...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1967-1972 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and shelters for battered women, held marches and sit-ins for abortion and equal rights, famously took over offices and buildings, and pioneered...
14) World's end
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Offers a collection of the Nobel prize-winning Chilean author's poems from 1969, in which he condemns the hypocrisy and violence of the twentieth century and praises those who work for change, accompanied by a new English translation.
Collects a book-length poem by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, presented in both Spanish and English, in which he examines issues of social and political disillusionment.
"This first complete English translation of Pablo...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Part family story and part urban history, this work is a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago, and in cities across the nation. The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first campaign beyond the South. In this book, the author identifies the true causes of the...
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Series
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A distinguished cultural critic blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s.
Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple. Alice Walker made history in 1983 when...
17) Beyond the gates
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other primary documents, to show how Italian citizens lived and experienced the fascist regime under Mussolini...
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Here are the complete scripts for every one of the 45 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus and some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere; every silly set-up, every clever conceit, every snide insult and saucy aside from these now classic skits, including The Ministry of Silly Walks, the Dead Parrot, and more.
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Publisher
Page Two Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Holding space is the practice of compassionately witnessing, accepting, and supporting someone without judgement, while retaining your boundaries and sense of self. The ability to “hold space” for yourself and for others has never been more urgent. Faced with global issues of climate change, political unrest, violence, and economic crises, more citizens of the world are experiencing disconnection, grief, and a deep sense of loneliness than at...
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