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4) Salt houses
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
From the day he saw her in "Roman Holiday," Toshi, a young Japanese, has been infatuated with Audrey Hepburn and all things female-American. He gets his chance to try the real thing when he moves to Tokyo where there is no shortage of American women. The novel follows him from one culture shock to another. A debut in fiction.
6) The new American revolution: using the power of the individual to save our nation from extremists
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Pundit Bruce explores the shift in American attitudes since the tragedy of September 11. She maintains that in our effort to take this nation back from nihilistic extremists, the new tools for today's patriot include American Nationalism, individualism, gun ownership, the tearing down of liberal institutions, personal activism, and knowing the enemy. The "Hate America First" ideology has prevailed for far too long, says Bruce, and she now offers a...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008, ©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Southern California high school senior Sofi Mendoza lies to her parents and crosses the border for a weekend party, she has no idea that she will get stuck in a Mexican village with family she has never met before, unable to return to the United States and the easy life she knew.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Valentina apparently has the perfect life in the United States. Her universe trembles when her boyfriend proposes marriage and she must confront her family. Both will have to survive the cultural shock and their charismatic ex-boyfriend discovering in the way that in the end, the things that really matter have no surname or borders.
10) Indelicacy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Hailed by critics as one of the most thoughtful and important TV dramas ever, the sweeping fourteen-part remastered adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet is the story of the men and women of both ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
12) The long falling
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A woman in rural Ireland kills her husband to free herself of his abuse. She flees to her son in Dublin, but he does not keep her secret and her bid for freedom fails. A first novel.
13) Ali & Ava
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly as two people develop a deep connection despite the lingering legacy of past relationships. A compelling love story enveloped in music and imbued with humor. BAFTA nominee for Best British Film.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down. It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive. The Old School way may harbor microaggressions. Therefore, Old School philosophy must be diminished. Those crusading against Old School now have a name: Snowflakes. You may have seen them...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Crocodile Dundee: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test -- a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Continuing the adventures of the eccentric Australian, Crocodile Dundee, he and his beautiful girlfriend are threatened by a ruthless gang of drug dealers. Dundee evens the odds by leading the hoods to his turf,...
16) Pleasantville
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Twin siblings David and Jennifer couldn't be more different: she curses, smokes, and sleeps around; David is a prototypical nerdy outcast. Then, one dark and stormy night, they're sucked into the TV and Pleasantville: a perfect suburban Disneyland suffused with church-social niceness and Rotary Club boosterism. Jennifer despises it all. So, like a pint-size Lauren Bacall, she refuses to play the role of poodle-skirted good girl and introduces one...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"David French examines the depths of the American ideological divide, diagnoses its core causes, and provides a hopeful path forward. Polarization. Tribalization. Division. Some look at the growing political tension in our nation and call it a "cold civil war." Others say it's nothing more than the culture war of the last three decades, amplified beyond reason by social media. David French argues that it's something else-the beginning of a national...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today's heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to reveal how, ultimately, liberals always win.Though they may seem to be dividing the country irreparably, today's heated cultural and political battles between right...
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