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Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest--until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Written when he was only 24, this is Nabokov's earliest major work and his only full-length play, presented here for the first time in English. The story involves an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to prevent.
44) The darkening
Author
Series
Darkening volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing that...
Author
Series
Dang dai wen xue volume 128
Publisher
Yuan shen chu ban she you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
47) La Selección
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español
Description
America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illéa's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Viva la revolucion! Find out how Che Guevara--a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt--ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause. His very image has become associated with a spirit of rebellion, but Ernesto Guevara--known around the world simply as Che--didn't dream of becoming a revolutionary. Author Ellen Labrecque takes readers on a journey through Che's life starting with his childhood in Argentina, to his...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A first-ever biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu finally tells the whole story of one of the most prominent characters of the late 19th century whose trial for indecency heralded decadence's demise - and his own."--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts have been made to get Castro to tell his own story, but only now, in the twilight of his years, has he been prepared to set out the details for the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That's up for debate, but "Who Was Betsy Ross?" tells the story of...
54) Rosa: a novel
Author
Series
Berlin trilogy (Jonathan Rabb) volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
In post-World War I Berlin, Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner investigates a series of murders in which five women--including revolutionary leader Rosa Luxemburg--turn up dead with identical markings etched into their backs.
Author
Series
Jing dian xin ban shi jie ming zhu volume 7
Publisher
Feng yun shi dai chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Arthur Burton, an English Catholic, travels to Italy to study to be a priest. He discovers radical ideas, renounces Catholicism, and fights against the injustices of 1840s Italy.
56) Countdown to independence: a revolution of ideas in England and her American colonies : 1760-1776
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Examines the people and events both in the American colonies and in Great Britain between 1760 and 1776 that led to the American Revolution.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who...
60) Fidel Castro
Author
Series
Publisher
Sutton
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Describes Castro's personality--charming, intelligent, and persistent--and the troubling political circumstances that have placed him on the world stage for so long.
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