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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Crisis has a way of laying bare our truest selves: who we trust, which principles and impulses we heed, whose lives we deem expendable. As it ravaged millions of lives, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed and accentuated the dividing lines that had already, for decades, splintered American public life. Against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election, misinformation regimes, and the transformation of the facemask into a flagrant political symbol,...
2. 2020
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Language:
English
Description:
In the tradition of 1984 and It Can't Happen Here, 2020 is a timely dystopian novel about a country divided, a terrorist attack, and an populist leader who promises he alone is the solution. In 2020, Britain is at a breaking point. Years of economic turmoil, bitter debates over immigration, anger at the political elites, and fears about the future have created a maelstrom, a dis-United Kingdom, with citizens tempted to find easy answers in demagoguery...
3. 2020
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Language:
English
Description:
2020: Can the President of the United States do this? Chandler Scott, a rising TV journalist, tries to connect the dots in a country mired in another financial crisis. Cyber terrorists add to the flames of fear. The public yearns for help from its leaders who respond in ways previously unimagined. Politics and economics collide during the election of 2020. Chandler uncovers a dark, far-reaching conspiracy that plants the seeds for the next crisis,...
4. 2020
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Publisher:
The Sentinel
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
Spanish
Description:
Chandler Scott, un periodista de televisión en ascenso, intenta conectar los puntos en un país sumido en otra crisis financiera. Los terroristas cibernéticos se suman a las llamas del miedo. El público anhela la ayuda de sus líderes que responden de manera inimaginable. La política y la economía chocarán durante la elección presidencial de 2020. Chandler descubre las semillas de la próxima crisis, una crisis que daría forma al futuro de...
5. 2020
Author:
Publisher:
Ben Spies
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
From award-winning young author Ben SpiesEarth's orbit is moving closer to the Sun and our planet is heating up at an alarming rate.The spacecraft sent by NASA, to find a new home for the human race, has been destroyed by an alien force..Twelve-year-old Jacob and his mother, Susan, are fighting for survival while witnessing the horrors of an apocalyptic world. With so many threats to our planet, the true enemy may not come from outer space, but from...
6. 2020
Author:
Publisher:
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
Spanish
Description:
La científica Jéssica Salles no paraba de quitarle dolor, aún más después de que su descubrimiento fue anunciado como mérito de su ex profesor. No era fácil admitir que la academia de ciencias la ignoraba. Sólo el padre Victor, escurrido por Cornelio de los laboratorios de la USP, demostró interés en sus investigaciones. Se convirtieron en amigos, hasta que Victor fue atacado, casi perdiendo la vida. La policía relacionó el golpe a otros...
7. 2020
Author:
Publisher:
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
The scientist Jessica Salles didn't stop complaining, especially after her discovery was announced as the merit of her former teacher. It was not easy to admit that the science academy had ignored her. Only Father Victor, expulsed by Cornelio from the USP laboratories, had shown interest in her research. They became friends until Victor was attacked, almost losing his life. Police had linked the beating to other murders. But why had he survived? Suddenly...
8. 2020
Publisher:
Stadium Media
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
While attempting to travel to the safety of his uncle's farm, a 16-year-old cult runaway finds himself fighting for his life in a desolate post apocalyptic American landscape until a mysterious stranger offers him hope of survival in this new, cruel world.
10. The art lesson
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Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 590L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there much more regimented.
Author:
Series:
Strega Nona volume 1
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 730L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
Author:
Series:
Strega Nona volume 8
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 530L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Strega Nona sends home gifts of candy and bubble bath while on vacation, but when Bambolona grabs the candy, Big Anthony is left with a lot of bubbles.
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Series:
Publisher:
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
Description:
"This narrative nonfiction title introduces young readers to the 2020 Black Lives Matter marches. These large protests, filled with powerful and courageous voices, shined a light on important issues concerning police brutality and racism. Each book includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and timeline"--
Author:
Series:
George Smiley volume 3
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
Author:
Publisher:
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
This narrative nonfiction title introduces young readers to the 2020 Black Lives Matter marches. These large protests, filled with powerful and courageous voices, shined a light on important issues concerning police brutality and racism. Each book includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and timeline. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Index Informative sidebars Table of contents Millions...
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Language:
Spanish
Description:
El año 2020 ha sido un año de terribles privaciones y sufrimientos a niveles Bíblicos; año en que nos invade un nuevo virus, creando una pandemia mundial; hiriéndonos a todos, por igual, sepultándonos eternamente en las profundas aguas del olvido. Todos estos meses del 2020 nos han agobiado la vida a un nivel casi apocalíptico; el encerramiento obligatorio, el uso de mascarillas, los toques de queda; todo esto nos indica que este caos no se...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observation turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There's a dirty joke shared...