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One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by Myles Horton, a white southerner with roots in the labor movement. There, the trio united behind a shared mission: preparing Black southerners to pass the daunting Jim Crow era voter registration literacy tests that were designed to disenfranchise them....
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English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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Lexile measure:
1150L
Language:
English
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"In October 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered a series of lectures to the two women's colleges at Cambridge University, and the result was thus: A Room of One's Own, an extended essay that outlines the limitations on women throughout history and in her own time. Through a series of metaphors, scenarios, and analysis of her literary predecessors-which includes a powerful thought experiment about a fictional sister of William Shakespeare and musings on...
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Lexile measure:
1470L
Language:
English
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From the publisher. After the publication of his masterpiece of political theory, Leviathan, Or the Matter, and Power of Commonwealth Ecclesiastic and Civil, in 1651, opponents charged Thomas Hobbes with atheism and banned and burned his books. The English Parliament, in a search for scapegoats, even claimed that the theories found in Leviathan were a likely cause of the Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. For the modern reader, though, Hobbes...
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English
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Falling in love with her paramour but unable to divorce because of societal conventions, married Jazz Age socialite Theresa Marshall tries to make the best of the situation but reconsiders her values when her lover falls for her soon-to-be sister-in-law.
"A beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby's New York"--Book jacket.
6. Heidi
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Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
"A hardcover edition of the classic Swiss novel, in Helen B. Dole's English translation and with illustrations by William Sharp from the 1945 edition"--
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English
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Russia 1917: Beautiful, educated Svetlana Petrova defied her stifling aristocratic family to join a revolution promising freedom. Now, released after years of imprisonment, she discovers her socialist party vying for power against the dictatorial Bolsheviks and her beloved uncle, a champion of her cause, was murdered by a mysterious assassin named Orlova. Her signature? Blinding her victims before she kills them. Svetlana resolves to avenge his death...
9. OZ
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Publisher:
Caliber Comics
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Based on the series of novels from Frank L. Baum. Return to and witness the incredible land of OZ after Dorothy and Toto had their famous adventure. But now… The Emerald City is tarnished. The Yellow Brick Road is in ruins. Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, are gone. OZ is no longer a happy fantasyland of wonderful wizards and innocent singers. It is an OZ where a great evil has darkened the skies and come to despoil the land. And into this world of...
11. The blue castle
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English
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In early 1920s Canada, drastic circumstances give Valancy, a twenty-nine-year-old unmarried woman resigned to being an "old maid," the courage to defy her controlling family and escape to a life of her own choosing.
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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"When young Charlie Boykin gains entry into the wealthy society of the most exclusive part of Nashville, he falls under its spell. But he soon learns what he'd have to give up in return in this novel that asks why we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses"--Provided by publisher.
13. The ambassadors
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Lexile measure:
1150L
Language:
English
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"One of the great masterpieces of James's late period--and the author's own favorite among his works. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY. First published in 1903, The Ambassadors follows the middle-aged Lambert Strether, dispatched from Massachusetts to Paris by his wealthy fiancee to "rescue" her son Chad from the corrupting influences of Europe and its wicked women. Once Strether arrives in Paris, however, Chad introduces him to a world that he finds refined and...
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English
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Draws on unique access to classified CIA files to document the role of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" in promoting American Cold War agendas in the 1950s, revealing how the CIA helped publish the Soviet-banned book in Russian to an enthusiastic black-market audience.
16. Hester
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts...
17. Clan Dominance
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Tantor Media, Inc
Language:
English
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Nothing is ever given freely. One has to pay the full price for everything one gets. Easy money for a seemingly minor quest in a game? Well, you're obviously being played for a mark. Suddenly stumbled upon a unique spell coveted by the entire world of Waldyra? That automatically makes you the quarry for the game's top clans, each of which will be hunting you-IRL as well as inside the game. Or have you, perhaps, chanced upon a gift from a legendary...
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Publisher:
Mad Cave Studios Inc
Language:
English
Description:
Ishbaal reveals information about the source of the Golden Sun and it's importance. With that information, Michael and Gabrielle set off to find Raphael and Uriel. Lucifer reveals the truth about his treachery to Azrael and she uses that knowledge to strike at the heart of the Archangels' true purpose. Upon Azrael's arrival at Raphael's camp, tragedy strikes and Raphael has no choice but to fight Azrael, Sandalphon, and Metatron. A raging Raphael...
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Publisher:
Caliber Comics
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
A mini-series set in the world of OZ, the popular Caliber Comic series based on the Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum, as it concentrates on Scarecrow and his tattered lover, Scraps. Set in the days when Oz was controlled by the Nome King and when the Scarecrow was under the evil spell of the Nome King's amulet, Scraps must decide which side to ultimately join - Scarecrow or the Freedom Fighters. This series is about the ill-fated love between Scraps...