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President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America," but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103, killing 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back. Instead, the grieving relatives of the victims did the unthinkable-as mere civilians-and tried to force Libya to pay for its crime. Lawyers told the families that they could never sue Libya in American courts, and they were right. This would require...
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Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1989.
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English
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A brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture’s contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups. “You mustn’t be eaten by the kimono,” says Genshu, making reference to the traditional Japanese dress designed to...
3) Uprising
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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Supernatural singles volume 3
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English
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"Olive Maxwell much prefers teaching about the supernatural world to taking part in it and leaves the magical shenanigans to her two sisters-the Prima-Apparent and Bounty Hunter-In-Training. But after assigning her college students a project designed to nudge them outside their comfort zones, Olive realizes that she's never once stepped a toe over her own...and it's about time that changed. Her first trip into the unknown? Moving in with her long-time...
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Secrets of the sky volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Kiya and Kinjal return to the Kingdom Beyond. For their next adventure in the Kingdom Beyond, twins Kiya and Kinjal must help the flying horses with a sudden invasion of their lands. It turns out that the tree ghosts are losing their forest! To save the trees, and the Kingdom, they must use their collective knowledge of this world and of course their magic!
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Sia's first proper album since 2016 is so filled to the brim with pop perfection, it almost overwhelms with how effortless it is for her to craft such instantly connectable songs. The collection is everything Sia does best, and the sonic equivalent of a myriad of things: an empowering embrace, secrets told late at night, going to the best party in the world, the vulnerability of declaring you love someone, the steadfast determination to keep going,...
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1972.
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English
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In an instant, accountant Henry Pulling's dull life becomes a whirlwind adventure of old love affairs, espionage, kidnappings and more money than he has ever dreamed of when his Aunt Augusta takes him under her wing to add a lot of color to his gray existence in the madcap TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT.When Augusta (Academy and Tony Award winner Maggie Smith) sees her nephew, Henry (Alec McGowan), at her sister's funeral, the grand old dame with a wicked past...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity-not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change. Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Here, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask:...
10) Rebel skies
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Rebel skies volume 1
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Tundra
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret -- she can make folded paper figures come to life with a flick of her finger. But when the Midori is attacked and Kurara's secret turns out to be a power treasured across the empire, a gut-wrenching escape leads her to the gruff Himura, who takes...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When you are outside on a summer's day, have you ever seen fine powder on a flower or floating on the breeze? That's pollen, almost invisible, waiting for the only thing it needs -- a ride on the wind, or a wing, or a feather. And it's the pollinators, small and mighty, who hold the world together with their work.
12) Atlas adventure!
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Kids will explore destinations all around the world while learning critical thinking skills and new ways to view their surroundings.
Explore the lakes, dells and wishing wells of Ireland in this story for Saint Patrick's Day.
Visit the city by the bay. Take in all the sights of San Francisco with this FarFaria storybook!
Speak French and take a trip to Paris with Suzette, the crepe maker, and her customers in this fun and educational book app!...
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Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"With their stunning black-and-orange wings, monarch butterflies are one of the most recognizable insects on the planet. But despite their delicate beauty, these creatures are warriors. The moment they hatch, they're fighting for their lives. Everything is the enemy: from the very leaf they live on to the humans and animals around them to nature itself. How does such a tiny egg survive to become a butterfly? And even after emerging from the cocoon,...
14) The real deal
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Is it harder to keep a secret when the world is watching - or to tell the truth when no-one is listening? Belle Simon was just 12 years old when she was one of six girls plucked from obscurity to star in reality TV sensation The Real Deal. Under the wing of dazzling star Donna Mayfair, she and the other five girls were meant to become world-famous actresses, singers and dancers. But at 26, Belle is trying to live anonymously, away from being loved...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
"This book surveys the history of fascism in the United States from the 1930s to the present, examining the rise of right-wing groups from the interwar period to the Trump era, along with the response of antifascists"--
Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the USA established a staunch anti-fascist reputation...
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Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Imagine a Museum of Lost Art. If this imaginary museum contained just the artwork we knew was lost-- whether from theft, purposeful destruction, vandalism, war, or the forces of nature--it would still contain more masterpieces than those in all the world's current museums combined. Imagine that! Art historian Noah Charney guides you through just such an imaginary museum. In 12 fascinating lectures accompanied by stunning graphics, you will hear...
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SuperDrew volume 2
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Snowy Wings Pubishing
Pub. Date
[2024].
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English
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"Who says kids can't make a difference in the adult world? Not SuperDrew, and he's proved it big time. Not only did Drew and Jazz sneak into Donhil Corporation and uncover their secret supervillain plans, but they even negotiated a shaky truce with CEO Lungowe to get them out safely. They could call it quits there and count themselves lucky. But that would mean letting Donhil Corp win, wiping out humanity's free will in the name of world peace. Like...
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Publisher
Jenna Katerin Moran
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Death's daughter steals a girl's self-hate to decorate her garden. An accidental bond of fate forms between them-across the vast uncharted wildlands between their worlds and a great gulf of time-and begins a friendship redefining both. A book for all who long to cast aside their weighty cloaks of human skin, unfurl the feathered wings beneath, and fall into the sky.In Perdition, where Death's daughter's garden grows, your dreams are dead. Your heart...
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Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Multiple
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The growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980 was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, also in Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries, which were dubbed and screened in Japan. Their Japanese audiences felt oppressed by the US after World War II, and not only sympathized but also identified with the Palestinians.
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