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Defy the night volume 1
Language
English
Description
The kingdom of Kandala is recovering from a devastating plague but the cure is rare and expensive, so a girl hatches a plan to infiltrate the castle and bring the corrupt system crashing down.
Author
Series
Farseer volume 3
Language
English
Description
King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz, or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest, perhaps to death. Only Verity's return or the heir his princess carries can save the...
3) Coup
Publisher
Lone Oak Games
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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In a future where the government is run for profit, all but a priviledged few live lives of poverty and desperation. The Resistance rises out of these oppressed masses in revolt and throws the government into chaos. Many see hope for a brighter future for the first time in their lives. Others see opportunity for absolute power. To take command, you must destroy the influence of your rivals and drive them into exile. Only one can survive.
4) Greythorne
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English
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Aurelia thought she saved her kingdom, only to watch it fall apart and have her people turn against her. Retreating to Greythorne, a friend's ancestral home, she is surrounded by enemies -- even the house itself seems to have a sinister desire to harm her -- yet she's determined to protect her family even through her darkest moments.
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"Glory centres around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional African country, and the drama that follows for an unruly nation of animals on the path to true liberation. At the center of this tumult is Destiny, who has returned to the motherland from America to bear witness to revolution--and, unwittingly, narrate the secret history and the potential legacy of the women who have quietly pulled the strings in this country....
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The sixth side of the Pentagon (1968): From a first-person perspective, Marker documents the October 1967 march on the Pentagon for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam;
The embassy (1973): Political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Karsman has a dozen different people living in his head, each the master of a different set of skills and hoping to gain mastery of Karsman's body. He survives on a backwater planet dominated by the Muljaddy, a mostly ambivalent religious autocracy, where devotion and prayer can be traded in for subsistence wages and enough food to survive. Surrounded by artifacts of a long dead civilization, the population survives off its salvage, with Karsman...
10) Purple hibiscus
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at homea...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The saga of El Mariachi continues when a corrupt CIA agent forces him out of hiding to help sabotage an assassination attempt on the President of Mexico by an evil cartel kingpin. El Mariachi has his own reason for helping, he is doing it for revenge. Special features include: deleted scenes, commentary, featurettes, and more.
12) Fall with honor
Author
Series
Vampire earth volume 7
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
David Valentine, who is leading a company of soldiers in the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth, joins forces with a guerrilla army planning to establish a new freehold in the Appalachian Mountains.
13) Hunter killer
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American submarine captain teams up with a group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and save the world from an imminent catastrophe.
14) Ukraine on fire
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the historical premises of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, its current political backstage and its dangerous potential for the world. The speakers of the highest rank, president of Russia Vladimir Putin, ex-president of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych, interviewed by the filmmaker Oliver Stone share their thoughts about the reasons of the conflict and ways to solve it.
Publisher
Days of Wonder
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Crossing into the Land of 1001 Nights, your caravan arrives at the fabled Sultanate of Naqala. The old sultan just died and control of Naqala is up for grabs!... Five Tribes builds on a long tradition of German games with wooden meeples in a unique twist on the worker placement game genre. It's when, how and where you dis-place tribes of assassins, builders, elders, merchants & viziers that will determine your victory or failure!"--Adapted from box....
Author
Series
Defy the night volume 1
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Un reino dividido por la corrupción. Un rey desesperado que intenta mantener el control. Una joven dispuesta a arriesgarlo todo para destruirlo todo.
The kingdom of Kandala is recovering from a devastating plague but the cure is rare and expensive, so a girl hatches a plan to infiltrate the castle and bring the corrupt system crashing down.
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