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Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While America flourished in the golden years of the 1950s, the decade was also marked by intense paranoia and social anxiety. It was a period in which intense pressures brought to bear on individuals and societies converged in remarkable ways with landmark developments in the sciences of brain and behavior. Andreas Killen looks at the Laurentian Symposium, an international meeting of neuroscientists who met to discuss breakthroughs challenging then...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
Formats
Description
An assassination attempt on the head of Russian intelligence leads United States President Jack Ryan into the middle of a Chinese plot that could change the world as we know it.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari's [book] is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 78
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A billionaire has an idea for reversing global warming, but will it work? And what will the consequences for the planet be? A disparate group of characters from around the globe fight to solve the problem of global warming, but some of their ideas may be worse than climate change itself.
Author
Publisher
Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
More than a bipolar conflict between two Superpowers, the decades-long Cold War had implications for the entire world. In this accessible, comprehensive retelling, Carole K. Fink provides new insights and perspectives on key events with an emphasis on people, power, and ideas, along with cultural coverage “from the Beetle to the Beatles.” Cold War goes beyond US-USSR relations to explore the Cold War from an international perspective, including...
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Language
English
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states. Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A powerful, revelatory book about the year that would signal the beginning of the Cold War, the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the rivalry between the United States and the USSR. Victor Sebestyen reveals the events of 1946 by chronologically framing what was taking place in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with seminal decisions made by heads of state that would profoundly change the old order forever. --Amazon.com
14) The mission song
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Language
English
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Description
Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador (alias Salvo) has long looked for someone to guide his life. Enter Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence. Bruno's African upbringing and fluency in numerous African languages have made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats--and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room," Salvo translates intercepted phone...
15) Cold War
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
16) Trigger point
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a near-future world where the United States has emerged from painful wars and a devastating recession, the president sends troops to Uganda, where aid workers have been massacred by terrorists, in spite of warnings from the Chinese government to keep out.
17) Believe me
Author
Series
Shatter me volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"It's been two weeks since Juliette and Warner toppled The Reestablishment for good. Everyone at the Sanctuary is working round the clock to stabilize the world in the aftermath. Warner is thinking about more than politics. Since Juliette accepted his proposal, he's been eager for the two of them to officially begin their lives together. But it's been hard to find peace and joy amidst so much chaos. Even Juliette is distracted by all they have to...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Empire and the Five Kings is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture to reveal the stakes facing the West as America retreats from its leadership role, a process that did not begin with Donald Trump's presidency and is not likely to end with him. The crisis is one whose roots can be found as far back as antiquity and whose resolution will require the West to find a new way forward if its...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on over a decade of research, ... [the author] explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity"--
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