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English
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"Detective-Inspector Oliver Reed is assigned to guard social activist Emme O'Shea on her trip to Scotland where she will speak at an important summit on Shifter rights, but getting her there safely will be a challenge--especially when the two of them realize they might be falling in love"--
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Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxv, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rage Baking will offer over 50 cookie, cake, tart, and pie recipes as well as inspirational short stories/reflections/interviews with well-known bakers, and impassioned women and activists who have found a voice in and out of the kitchen, such as celebrity, cookbook author and activist Chrissy Teigen, actress and activist Maya Rudolph, Rebecca Traister (author of the bestselling book, Good and Mad), and comedian and political commentator Samantha...
4) Go further
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join actor/activist Woody Harrelson and friends as they take a hemp-fueled bus on an eco-consciousness raising 1300-mile incursion down the beautiful Pacific Coast from Seattle to Santa Barbara. Explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The goal is to show people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviors.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
In the early '70s, the radically enraged, bomb-planting fringe group call Weathermen had the distinction of being as alienated from the anti-war counterculture as the counterculture movement was from the rest of America. The group planned to blow up an empty building, but on March 6, 1970, an explosive accidentally went off in the New York Greenwich Village area, killing three of its own members and turning the rest of its members into outlaws on...
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English
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Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as...
7) Reckoning
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues -- political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making. The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred....
10) The Yes Men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005, 2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed -- hook, line and sinker -- the Yes Men must up the satirical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights.
11) I Huckabees
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kindhearted, but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
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English
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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of seventeen for speaking out against injustice even when it was terrifying to do so. She was an ordinary Muslim girl who wanted to attend school, and she refused to stop protesting for her rights even after being attacked by a powerful group in Pakistan who wanted women to remain in the shadows. She continues to fight for women's rights and free education for children all over the world"--
14) Little boy
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novelistic memoir by famed poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti"--
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Theodore Boone has spent more time in the courtroom than any thirteen year old boy ought to have but after being cleared of the charge of vandalism and theft, Theo is happy to once more dispense legal advice to his community. However, he uncovers corruption that he didn't expect. Theo finds himself and his loved ones in more danger than he could have anticipated. Theo will always stand up for what is right, though, no matter what the consequences....
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
193 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fantastic, heroic life of Nelson Mandela, brought to life in this landmark graphic work. Nelson Mandela’s memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that classic work comes this fully authorized graphic biography, which relays in picture form the life story of...
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a memoir about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice.
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
46 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
As we in the United States have the right to speak the truth, we also have the need to be told the truth. Throughout history, politicians, writers, environmentalists, political activists, and others have used this freedom to motivate and empower Americans to challenge the status quo. Artist Robert Shetterlyś fifty portraits, combined with thought-provoking quotes and concise biographies, offer a powerful view into what it means to be American, to...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the...
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