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Author
Series
Unbound trilogy (Eve Marie Mont) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Townsend is catapulted into the nineteenth century world of Jane Eyre and has a sense of belonging as a governess that she has never known in her real life.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Publisher
Videomax
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
A harsh reality of extreme poverty, injustice and ignorance that identify a Mexico in decline during the decade of the 70s. Through various sarcastic situations that the characters perform, they criticize society, but mainly the government. Not everything is misfortune, because this helps to overcome what society suffers from: the Mexican always gets ahead.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 5
Language
English
Description
Alex and his friends from Artimé are stranded on a newly-discovered island, and they are not alone, while in Quill, his twin Aaron's power base grows as he joins with an unlikely ally in a risky plan to finally conquer Artimé.
17) Bobby's story
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bobby tries to get his classmates to take an interest in homelessness, but they are all distracted by their own activities, so he features the problem in one of his popular comic books.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"W.H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, distinguished professor and author Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the great writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present. Today we are battling too much information, a society changing at lightning speed, algorithms aimed at shaping our every move,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership and offers "a welcome reminder of what government can accomplish if given the chance" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by...
Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by...
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