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"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Conrad's classic tale tells of Marlow's journey through the Congo in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. During his adventure, Marlow finds himself questioning his own nature and values as well as those of his society. Illus. 144pp BRODART CO., c2005.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain's leading military historian Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain's most decorated and respected World War II historians, he argues that this was the "last imperial war," with almost a century-long lead-up of global imperial expansion, which reached its peak in the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A bestselling British author's American debut-in this brilliantly illuminating work exploring the realities and legacies of empire, Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in its imperial past. In prose that is at once both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how the past is everywhere in the United Kingdom, also drawing critical links to similarities in the United States...
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Series
Age of uprising volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Torwyn burns as Sanctan Egelrath tightens his grip on power. The Draconate Ministry has gathered its forces, determined to eradicate the Guilds, but Rosomon Hawkspur still stands in their way. Her only hope could lay with Lancelin Jagdor, sent to gather allies in their struggle against the usurper. Can even the greatest warrior in Torwyn hope to succeed with so many adversaries determined to stop him? Tyreta returns home with newfound strength and...
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Mermaid the witch and the sea volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. The brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don't trust, don't stick out, don't feel. When the pirates prepare to sell their unsuspecting passengers into...
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English
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From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii's emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France-all without destroying itself in the process? In...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, are anxious about the future of the "land that we love." In America's Expiration Date, trusted political commentator Cal Thomas offers a diagnosis of what's wrong with the United States and prophetically reminds us that change will come when Americans look to God instead of Washington"--
There is a deep-seated feeling that we need to improve our country. Our culture is increasingly immoral, the...
10) Into the west
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as empty...
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Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"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
Series
Age of uprising volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The nation of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, and their responsibility is to keep the gears of the empire turning. It's exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is sent to the distant frontier to earn his stripes in the military. It is here that he faces a threat he could have never seen coming:...
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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips. Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch. "Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence," wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz. Originally published in 1902,...
14) Legacy of war
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Series
Courtney novels volume 18
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The war is over, Hitler is dead, and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe. Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire...
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Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"All rise: resistance and rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered during a tumultuous period in South African history....
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Explores the historical development of American culture and how elements of what has made the United States a leading player in world affairs, including economic liberalism and free enterprise, have ultimately contributed to its decline.
17) Sweep of stars
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Series
Astra Black volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to...
18) Loot
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas hones his craft and learns to read French and then meets...
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world"--
Castillo explores the politics and ethics of reading. She insists we are capable of a more engaged relationship not just within our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled historys. She builds a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers, takes aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island base, it operated on a shoestring with the help of local...
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