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[2022]
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"Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But dust always rises in a storm. Hassa moves through the...
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2023.
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"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
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[2023]
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"A tragicomic family saga set in a small Ethiopian town following the 1974 socialist revolution, told from the perspective of the youngest daughter of a large, formerly land-owning family, who contends with bullies, poverty, and a dictatorship with humor and a refusal to be silenced"--
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After Jason succeeds in finding a way back to Lyrian, he's immediately in more danger than ever. Meanwhile, Rachel and the others have made their own progress--as well as discovered new enemies. As the group ultimately rejoins, they strive to convince their most needed ally to join the war and form a rebellion strong enough to triumph against the emperor.
6) Wool
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
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Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is considered by many to be a masterpiece of political analysis and a compelling rationale against the French Revolution. Originally written as a letter in response to a young Parisian and later expanded upon and published in book format in January 1790, the work has greatly influenced conservative and classic liberal intellectuals and stands as a powerful argument against violent revolutions,...
8) Riot baby
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"Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for...
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"Ren Kolins is a silver wielder---a dangerous thing to be in the kingdom of Erdis, where magic has been outlawed for a century. Ren is just trying to survive, sticking to a life of petty thievery, card games, and pit fighting to get by. But when a wealthy rebel leader discovers her secret, he offers her a fortune to join his revolution. The caveat: she won't see a single coin until they overthrow the King. Behind the castle walls, a brutal group of...
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In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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[2017]
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"Morgan Freeman takes viewers on a global journey to meet with people from different cultures whose lives are shaped in surprising ways, and to explore themes that unite us all. At a time when global events seem to be driving cultures apart, this series aims to reveal the common humanity that lies inside each one of us. Each episode explores a single fundamental force or topic: freedom, peace, love, social division, power, and rebellion."--Container....
13) This rebel heart
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[2022]
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During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest, Csilla must decide whether to fight for her deeply flawed country or let it burn to the ground after her late parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated.
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man argues that human rights are inherent. As such, they cannot be conferred on citizens by their governments because to do so would mean that these rights can be revoked by that same government. Paine further suggests that government is responsible for protecting the rights of men, and therefore, the interests of governments and citizens are united. Within this context, Paine argues that revolution is acceptable when the...
15) Rebelwing
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2020.
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At New Columbia Preparatory Academy in a near-future Washington, D.C., black market smuggler Prudence Wu and friends Anabel, Alex, and Cat become key players in a conflict with the United Continental Confederacy.
Things just got weird for Prudence Wu. One minute, she's cashing in on a routine smuggling deal. The next, she's escaping enforcers on the wings of what very much appears to be a sentient cybernetic dragon. Pru is used to life throwing her...
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The overtly obvious and seemingly malicious maligning of our Founders by many Americans within our systems of education, government, and media is being, performed with a greater intensity at the passing of each year. This constant, incessant, and relentless barrage of misinformation and falsehoods about their beliefs, character, and intentions is not only blatantly, unjust on its face it is, being, done to achieve a larger goal. What might that goal...
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Una síntesis magistral de la pasión revolucionaria y sus fracasos en América Latina
Un recorrido por las diez revoluciones latinoamericanas del siglo xx: la mexicana (1910-1940), la nicaragüense de los años veinte, la cubana de los treinta y la de 1959, el varguismo brasileño, el peronismo argentino, la guatemalteca (1944-1954), la boliviana de 1952, la chilena (1970-1973) y la sandinista en 1979.
Traza un perfil desapasionado de sus principales...
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Does it really matter what the Founding Fathers believed? Would the discovery of their true beliefs alter the way we think of America? The men and women whom we refer to as the Founders began an unprecedented journey to form and build a new way of life, a new government, and a new country. Determined to establish a free republic founded on principles of liberty, democracy, and reverence for the God who gave them life and liberty, they forged one nation...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of Hilaire Bellocs most influential historical works:
The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry
The Path to Rome
The Old Road
Servile State, The Jews, Servile State, The French Revolution
Blenheim
Tourcoing
Crécy
Waterloo
Malplaquet
Poitiers
First and Last
Europe and the Faith
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church
The Jews
The Historic Thames
A Change in the Cabinet
A...
20) A La Medianoche
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- A la Medianoche - Es el testimonio personal de Javier Arzuaga, capellán en aquel tiempo de Casablanca, eran los primeros días de la revolución cubana, una desgarradora crónica de aquellos primeros meses del año 59 en la prisión de La Cabaña. Lo que yo escribí nació con espíritu e intención de testimonio. Un grupo de amigos cubanos venía insistiendo una y otra vez: Javier, esos recuerdos no te pertenecen, no tienes derecho a llevártelos...
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