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2) Threshold
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Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning.
5) Smothered
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Upon graduating from Columbia University, Eloise "Lou" Hansen is grimly determined to find a job and move out of her parents' home, while her mother is equally determined to keep her there. Told through tweets, journal entries, receipts, text messages, and more.
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In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.
This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist,
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"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.
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Wayward children volume 6
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Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines-- a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of...
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Rome's golden age comes to life through writings of the time, revealing surprising parallels between their concerns and ours. We learn of Roman urban problems from Juvenal, of patriotism from Cincinnatus, and of the Justinian Code reaffirming their great legacy of laws...equal justice for all citizens. An LCA release.
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"The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers' Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world will collapse. What is the effect of constant fear on...
15) Louis Riel
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Profile of Louis Riel the founding father of Manitoba who in the 1880s help the Métis secure equal rights to own their own land, speak French, and build Catholic schools.
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Celebrate the right to resist!
Human rights belong to every single one of us, but they are often under threat. Developed in collaboration with Amnesty International, Rise Up! encourages young people to engage in peaceful protest and stand up for freedom. Photographs of protest posters celebrate the ongoing fight for gender equality, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, refugee and immigrant rights, peace, and the environment.
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Adventurer's guide volume 2
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Anne, Penelope and Hiro are tasked with an unwanted quest: to kill the dragon queen. This could start a war between people and the dragon clan, but ignoring the quest could have equally devastating results. So to avoid disaster and save the world, the three friends must face dragon trials, defeat robots, and circumvent bureaucracy.
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Dans une petite ville du sud des États-Unis, Petites Cendres, un policier à cheval s'approche de Grégoire, un itinérant noir couché dans la rue. L'homme rappelle toutes les injustices que ses ancêtres ont subies aux mains des Blancs. Le policier, piqué à vif, s'apprête à l'arrêter lorsqu'arrive Petites Cendres, un travesti, s'interpose et essaie de parlementer avec le policier.
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Elements of genius volume 1
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Nikki Tesla is a genius, who amuses herself by inventing things, like her father. Unfortunately most of her inventions have serious, even lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor), so she is enrolled in the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional. When her death ray disappears she sets out to find out who took it and what they are planning to do with it.
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