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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as high-walled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class — descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China — find purpose...
Author
Language
English
Description
""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--whichgroups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
Author
Series
(Jessica Bird)Bourbon kings volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the creme de la creme of high society -- just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder. No one is above suspicion -- especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward....
Author
Series
Legend volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Day and Eden struggle with who they've become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance between them, and Eden finds himself drawn into Ross City's dark side, where his legendary brother may not be able to save him.
5) Devil's cut
Author
Series
(Jessica Bird)Bourbon kings volume 3
Language
English
Description
At first, the death of William Baldwine, the head of the Bradford family, was ruled a suicide. But then his eldest son and sworn enemy, Edward, came forward and confessed to what was, in fact, a murder. Now in police custody, Edward mourns not the disintegration of his family or his loss of freedom . . . but the woman he left behind. His love, Sutton Smythe, is the only person he has ever truly cared about, but as she is the CEO of the Bradford Bourbon...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies — with hardware, software, and networks at their core —will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human. In The Second Machine Age MIT’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical, milquetoast techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. And even though he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is actually ninety years old. Clearly, he is a Titan-one of this dystopian,...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
9) Dark age
Author
Series
Red rising novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
"A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he's an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Readers will be fascinated by this young adult adaptation of the nonfiction work as they follow narratives about real people that reveal an insidious phenomenon in the United States: a hidden caste system. Caste is not only about race or class; it is about power--which groups have it and which do not. Isabel Wilkerson explores historical social hierarchies, including those in India and Nazi Germany, and explains how perpetuating these rankings dehumanizes...
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