Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young...
Social problems
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Author:Gossard, Julia M.Summary: -
Author:Galeano, EduardoSummary: - Author:Hartmann, ThomSummary:
Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you’ll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures Hypothesis, which...
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Author:Ness, PatrickSummary:Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World...
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A risky decision endangers both Artimé and Quill in book five of the New York Times bestselling Unwanteds series, which Kirkus Reviews called "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter." Alex and his friends from Artimé are...
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Author:Freeman, JohnSummary:Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America-including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen...
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Some poems can live without souls / but mine remain ghastly fools flicking / uncomfortable narratives like / cigarette butts during class change.One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux...
- Author:Kerr, ConorSummary:
The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime thriller that doubles as a sharp critique of modern activism and challenges readers to consider what "Land Back" might really look like...
- Author:Ingraham, LauraSummary:
Radio personality Laura Ingraham is fed up with cultural elites on both coasts telling us how to run our lives. The American people are fed up with moral relativism, politicized education, open borders, fiscal excess, and a feckless...
- Author:Ness, PatrickSummary:
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
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Blackfoot storyteller Alexander Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the...
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Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:For more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to additional sessoins that continued...
- Author:McMann, LisaSummary:
The second book in the middle-grade dystopian fantasy series that Kirkus Reviews calls "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter," by New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann. Following the life-altering events at the...
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In this fourth installement Alex grows more confident in his role as the mage of Artime, expanding his skills and bringing to life his first creature--leading to both painful and surprisingly wonderful results. A team from Artime heads...
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, which aimed to highlight the social and economic pressures that some people were experiencing. Unlike other such writings at...
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:Presents the story of two children whose lives become bitter products of their father's educational philosophy.
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Author:Davis, MikeSummary:In a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future, Mike Davis, a provocative interpreter of the American metropolis unravels the secret history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California and shows how these tragedies could...
- Author:Neil, DanialSummary:
It is 1917, and a rather ruthless world of war and men. Women find themselves overwhelmed by the despotic nature of men. And in Edinburgh, it is no different. The war rages in Europe and the poverty at home fouls the cobbled streets....
- Author:Goswami, AmitSummary:
Amorçant la réflexion avec une question telle que «Dieu existe, alors qu’allons-nous faire de cette vérité?», Goswami en appelle à un plan d’action où les principes de l’activisme quantique seraient appliqués à un ensemble d’enjeux...
- Author:Joseph, Porsche, Joseph, FrederickSummary:
Featuring over two dozen interviews with activists, authors, actors, and politicians, this is the essential resource for those of us who want to leave the world better than we found it.
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