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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
3) Shatter me
Author
Series
Shatter me volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a postapocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
4) Prophet song
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
5) Animal farm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
6) Americanah
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu — beautiful, self-assured — departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze — the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor...
7) Bibliolepsy
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother — a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang — and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out...
Author
Series
Gray Man thrillers volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam's regime. Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn't end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam's rule -- and a potent threat to the Syrian...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been toppled in a violent coup d'etat, bringing to power a brutal military dictatorship. With turmoil in the streets and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in chaos--and others are just looking to make it through another day. American expat Matt Amaker, forced out of his beachfront scuba shop by a drug-smuggling...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
70 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"A leading Latin American writer effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship in Chile. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Animal farm: A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
1984: The cautionary tale of a man caught in a political nightmare in which the power of a totalitarian state is pitted against the personal freedom of the individual.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardo's life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan. Starring...
15) Grandes miradas
Author
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
El juez Guido Pazos se ha enfrentado a la corrupcion en el Peru de Vladimiro Montesinos. Cuando Guido es asesinado, su novia Gabriela decide tomar venganza. Para hacerlo debe convocar a los fantasmas de su ninez. En el proceso, Gabriela descubre su zona de penumbra y de violencia interior. Su vida se convierte en una busqueda delirante de los confines de la moral. Al rastrear a los autores de la muerte de Guido, se sumerge en aquello que siempre habia...
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 6
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
634 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Into the Flames, volume 6 of the Fire and Steel series, begins as Adolf Hitler completes his transformation of the German Republic into a total, harsh dictatorship and as the Great Depression continues to ravage the United States. The tumultuous times bring new experiences, new challenges, new opportunities, and not a few tragedies into the lives of the Eckhardt and Westland families. In America, Mitch and Edie Westland continue their struggle to...
17) Rojo
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Shortly before the 1976 Argentine coup d'etat that established a military dictatorship in the country, a successful lawyer finds himself entangled in various shady affairs as a result of an altercation with a stranger that did not end well.
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 5
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Volume 5 of the Fire and Steel saga, the Eckhardt and the Westland families move into one of the most turbulent times in history. Facing tectonic shifts like few generations have ever seen, they are caught up in a whirlwind that will permanently and profoundly alter their lives.
Mired in the depths of a global economic depression, the world takes little notice of a 1930 Parliamentary election in the floundering democracy of Germany. But overnight,...
19) Embrace the fire
Author
Series
Shadow warriors volume 3
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
620 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Middle East, refugees fleeing dictatorship and terrorism pour across the borders into Europe, destabilizing countries already in the throes of economic crisis. But not all who seek refuge share the same reasons for so doing. . . In the UK, the nationalist far Right gathers strength, fueled by a government unable or unwilling to protect its own. England is on the brink. All it will take to send it tumbling into the abyss. . .is a single push....
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism,...
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