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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note." --
22) Find me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Collects two novellas in the "Shatter Me" series, including "Shadow Me," where Kenji tries to balance his friendship with Juliette with his responsibilities as a leader of the resistance.
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Series
Language
Español
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Lectorum y Editorial Cõ presenta con orgullo una reedición imprescindible de la obra capital de Miguel Ángel Asturias: El Señor Presidente, relato que se sumerge en la cosmogonía maya, en la lucha entre el Bien y el Mal, y en la figura reiterada, todopoderosa y primitiva del dictador, en este caso, la de Manuel Estrada Cabrera, presidente de Guatemala de 1898 a 1920, y contra quien el mismo Asturias combatió.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
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English
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Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bola©ło and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities -- but not for Glory, who has no plan for what's next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she's never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way ... until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a person's infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is...
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Language
English
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A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945-from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature. Arguing that the tragedies...
28) Dictatorship
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Discusses dictatorships as a political system, and details the history of dictatorships throughout the world"--Provided by publisher.
29) Dictatorship
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history and theory behind dictatorship as a political system and explains how it has been applied in practice.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The rise of a dictator never happens the same way. Dictators have absolute power over a country, but how they obtain that power and what they use it for makes this form of government one of the most interesting political systems in the world.
32) The composition
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
35) Dictatorship
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, ignorance, and injustice. What is the nature of dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And...
37) Unite me
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Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Juliette will not stand alone. In a battle that will decide the fate of her world. In Destroy me, Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45, refuses to let her go. In Fracture me, Adam, Juliette's first love, will do anything to get her back."--Publisher's description
39) Dictatorship
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Describes what a dictator is, how he or she takes over a country, and what it is like to live under such a regime. The history of how dictatorships have evolved, the rise and fall of dictators, and the future of dictatorships are examined"--Provided by publisher.