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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution to reveal how a group of men, which included Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere, ignited a rebellion that gave birth to a radical political experiment--a new nation known as the United States.
22) Michael Collins
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
24) The selection
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare.
25) The one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--Provided by publisher.
27) The iron heel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1907, “The Iron Heel” is Jack London’s dystopian novel about the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. Displaying the socialist views that were held by London himself and that were prevalent at the beginning of the 20th century, “The Iron Heel” tells the story of events far in the future when a small, wealthy class squeezes out the middle class and effectively rules with brutality for three centuries until...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Before America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon₂s life. The Prince₂s story opens the week before the Selection begins and follows Maxon through the first day of the competition. Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would be living in the palace as a member of the royal guard. In the guard's story, listeners will learn of Aspen₂s life within the palace wall, and the truth...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutschers magisterial...
31) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
32) Uptight
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An updated remake of John Ford's 1935 film, The Informer. Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto and the Irish Republicans are replaced by black revolutionary fighters. Days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Tank Williams is an unemployed and itinerant steelworker who turns over his militant friend Johnny to the police for the $1,000 reward, resulting in an underground all-points bulletin to exact vengeance on the squealer.
Author
Series
Company of Rogues volume 16
Publisher
A Signet Select book
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she finds him hiding out in her bedroom, Lady Hermione Merryhew helps Lieutenant Mark Thayne, who has infiltrated a group of revolutionaries who are planning a bloodbath in London, evade the law so he can bring them down.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times)
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Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a...
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