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1) Restore me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Juliette takes over Sector 45 as the Supreme Commander of North America, but when tragedy strikes, she must face the darkness that lives both around and inside her to overcome the challenge of using her power only for good in the face of adversity.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the savior of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army...
3) Ser rojo
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
mayo de 2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Javier Argüello indaga en la memoria de sus padres y la suya propia para relatar la historia del sueño roto de una generación que quiso cambiar el mundo. "Los colores se intercambiaban y seguían siendo los mismos. En el fondo no se trataba de colores ni de ideas, sino de la vieja fórmula del soy más fuerte y te aplasto que atraviesa países, fronteras, ideologías y banderas." Los padres de Javier Argüello se conocieron en un barco yendo a...
6) Imagine me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 6
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Using the identity of Ella Sommers, Juliette teams up with Warner to bring down the Reestablishment while struggling to understand the past that haunts her.
7) Prophet song
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Formats
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"A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies, the ghosts of their murdered friends, who aren't yet done telling their stories. El Salvador, 1923. Graciela grows up on a volcano in a community of indigenous women indentured to coffee plantations owned...
10) Defy me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Juliette Ferrars isn't who she thinks she is. Still reeling from the explosive events of the Continental Symposium and the secrets Warner has been keeping, Juliette has nowhere to turn and doesn't know whom she can trust. She's desperate for answers, but to get them, she'll have to face the nightmares that have been chasing her for a lifetime.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Butterfly Hill volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns to Valparaiso from Maine, she decides to uncover the truth about what happened in Butterfly Hill during the dictatorship and find her missing friend, Lucila.
Author
Language
English
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Description
#1 New York Times The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century,...
15) Shatter me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a postapocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, dictators have shaped the world we live in. How did they seize and wield power? What forces rose up against them or resisted them in secret? How did they finally come to the bitter end? This series answers those questions in six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.
18) Ignite me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Juliette questions everything she ever believed about Adam and her abilities when she is forced to team up with Warner to stop the Reestablishment.
19) Unravel me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight."--
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Escrita entre 1920 y 1933 y publicada en 1946, "El señor presidente" es uno de los máximos exponentes de la llamada ±novela del dictador¬ en la que se encuadran otras obras fundamentales como Tirano Banderas, de Valle-Inclán; Yo el Supremo, de Roa Bastos; El otoño del patriarca, de García Márquez, o, más recientemente, La Fiesta del Chivo y Tiempos recios, de Mario Vargas Llosa. En ella, Asturias se inspira en el último gobierno de Manuel...
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