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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
According to a recent report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the number of mass protests has increased each year by over ten per cent. But we are not living in a world that is more just and democratic as a result. In If We Burn, acclaimed journalist and author of The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins sets out to answer a pivotal question: How did mass protest backfire in the 2010s? From the Arab Spring, to the Gezi Park...
83) Erasing time
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old twins Taylor and Sheridan are pulled into the future and must find a way to stop the evil government from using the time machine again.
84) Shattered
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sporting a new identity and desperate to fill in the blank spaces of her life pre-Slating, Kyla heads to a remote mountain town to try to reunite with the birth mother she was kidnapped from as a child. There she is hoping all the pieces of her life will come together and she can finally take charge of her own future"--
85) The lightstruck
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Vesper Vale sacrificed everything to save her city from the cursed storm. After becoming a vessel of The Great Queen, Vesper awakes from a slumber three years after her life altering choice. What she finds isn't a home freed from the terror of the storm, but one where its citizens are besieged by the even more sinister force of The Great King and his growing army of the lightstruck--once regular citizens who are now controlled by the ominous light...
86) Burning nation
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an island cursed by eternal winter, Sylvi agrees to run a late-season haul for a smuggler, but when they reach their destination, Sylvi must decide if she can abandon her cherished solitude and anonymity--and the favor of the icy spirit Winter--to join with the rebels.
Author
Series
Feverwake volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer's image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget--that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia. Now that Noam remembers the full extent of Lehrer's crimes, he's determined to use...
90) Rosemarked
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she is destined to live her last days in isolation. Dineas, broken by torture at the hands of the Amparan Empire, thirsts for revenge against his captors; he'll do anything to free his tribe from Amparan rule-- even if it means undertaking a plan that risks not only his life but his very self. The two are thrust together on a high-stakes mission to spy on the capital, and must find common ground to...
91) Umbertouched
Author
Series
Rosemarked volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shidadi and Dara are preparing for war. Even though Zivah and Dineas discovered a secret that could bring down the empire, their information is useless without proof. With their cover blown and their quest abandoned, their only remaining hope is to get home before Ampara brings the full might of its armies against their peoples. And after reluctantly falling in love, what will the two do with their lingering feelings? Time is running out-- especially...
92) Dove exiled
Author
Series
Dove chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After fleeing the Moon, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta hides on Earth and plots how to rescue her siblings from the wrath of the Lunar government.
93) A girl undone
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Having survived a violent confrontation with the US government, Avie is not out of danger. Both she and the young man she loves, Yates, have been declared terrorists, and Yates is hospitalized in critical condition, leaving Avie with the perilous task of carrying information that can bring down the Paternalist party, if she can get it into the right hands"--
94) The catalyst
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A breach has occurred between our world and another letting through two species of beings known as angels and demons, which have fused with the souls of humans. Angels have the ability to do magic, but demons do not. Battles have been fought and won, but there's a war threatening to break out, and Rose, our fifteen year-old Angel human, is prepared to fight to the death to save humankind.
95) Seven devils
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume 1859
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy's most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire's voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray. Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the intelligence gathered to the Resistance. But her partner for the mission, mechanic...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive Brotherhood--and when nuclear weapons are detonated in Washington, D.C. and New York, the Civil War suddenly turns into World War III.
97) R is for rebel
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After her parents are jailed for a failed resistance movement, Malley is sent to reform school, where she plans some resistance of her own.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucas Film Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The reign of the Galactic Empire has reached the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan, where aristocratic Thane Kyrell and rural villager Ciena Ree bond over their love of flying. Enrolling at the Imperial Academy together to become fighter pilots for the glorious Empire is nothing less than a dream come true for the both of them. But Thane sours on the dream when he sees firsthand the horrific tactics the Empire uses to maintain its ironclad rule. Bitter...
99) Street freaks
Author
Publisher
Grim Oak Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Receiving a dire warning immediately before his father disappears, Ash finds himself hunted in a futuristic mega-city where he searches for help from a human and part-human underworld.
Author
Publisher
Cinebook, Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After fleeing Confederate space, Caleb and Mezoke are hiding among a community of exiles disgusted by the corruption and violence infecting the galactic government. Caleb is recovering slowly, just as Angus, the living ship, is doing on a different world. But a powerful psychic link seems to exist between them, and all are actively hunted by both the authorities and a terrorist group. When running ceases to be the answer, the only option left is resistance......
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