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1) The target
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are...
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent over one hundred of his Detroit employees and their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families--Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret--and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin. Margaret was seventeen when her father was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. Heartbroken and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death.
Author
Publisher
Rialta Ediciones
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"El cuerpo nunca olvida. Trabajo forzado, hombre nuevo y memoria en Cuba (1959-2008) se inserta en una genealog̕a de estudios sobre Cuba que, parad̤jicamente, no han sido producidos en la isla, lo cual ya es demostraci̤n suficiente de que todo lo que el libro retrata contin͠a intacto. Su virtud principal es recomponer el car̀cter sisťmico y estructural del trabajo forzado y, m̀s all̀ de ľ, de la violencia estatal y la participaci̤n en ella...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
7) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Features three films on the Black Panther Party made in 1968-1969 by the Newsreel film collective and additional footage on Black Panther history and legacy. Includes extensive video and audio interviews with party members and movement participants as well as documents from the Roz Payne Archives chronicling the movement and government attempts to suppress it.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Por qué a usted no la mataron?", le preguntan constantemente a Dede Mirabal. "Quedé viva para contarles la historia", responde ella. Y en las páginas de Vivas en su jardín hace exactamente eso: nos cuenta la historia de sus tres hermanas, Patria, Minerva y María Teresa, conocidas como "las Mariposas, cuya oposición a la dictadura de Rafael Leonidas Trujillo les costó la vida, sacudió los cimientos de la sociedad dominicana y desencadenó...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gulag," acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.
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