Sepetys, Ruta
Summary: Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction SepSummary: From Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, dictators have shaped the world we live in. How did they seize and wield power? What forces rose up against them or resisted them in secret? How did they finally come to the bitter end? This series answers those questions in six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DICSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "Madrid, 1957. Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth. Photography introduces him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEPPandi
Summary: "The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANDikötter, Frank
Summary: Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 DIKMafi, Tahereh.
Summary: Juliette Ferrars isn't who she thinks she is. Still reeling from the explosive events of the Continental Symposium and the secrets Warner has been keeping, Juliette has nowhere to turn and doesn't know whom she can trust. She's desperate for answers, but to get them, she'll have to face the nightmares that have been chasing her for a lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: "The Straw Hat crew is reunited again in Zou, but this animal kingdom is already in a state of collapse when Luffy gets there. As the mystery of the events that transpired on Zou is slowly unraveled, new questions arise about Sanji's background"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ONEMafi, Tahereh
Summary: Juliette thought she'd won. She took over sector 45 and now has Warner by her side. She's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch--and with so much power in her young hands, the world is watching her every move, waiting to see what happens next."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFDobson, William J.
Summary: "Across the globe, there is a war raging between dictators and those who challenge their rule. With groundbreaking reporting and brilliant analysis, acclaimed journalist William J. Dobson reveals the inner workings of today's authoritarian regimes and takes us behind the lines in this battle for the future of freedom."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 DOBKramer, J. Kasper
Summary: In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KRAKreie, Chris
Summary: A few days after aliens attack Earth, Austin and his mother arrive safely at an emergency shelter, but they soon realize the shelter is not exactly a safe haven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KREGessen, Masha
Summary: "An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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Summary: "A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them are an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: S.F. Hebert 2014Mafi, Tahereh
Summary: Juliette questions everything she ever believed about Adam and her abilities when she is forced to team up with Warner to stop the Reestablishment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Childrens Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFMafi, Tahereh
Summary: The explosive finale to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series. Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: "A stunning debut from a fresh Nigerian literary voice: a mesmerizing, deceptively simple, Kafkaesque narrative, resonant of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and lightly informed by the life of Nigerian musical superstar Fela Kuti--a powerful story of love, sacrifice, and courage. The day a stained brown envelope reaches Taduno from his homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATOCardenas, Mauro Javier
Summary: "Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends-an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright-who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHunter, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 321.9 HUNSepetys, Ruta
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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Summary: [The author] turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACMafi, Tahereh.
Summary: 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 post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFMafi, Tahereh.
Summary: tickticktickticktickit's almosttime for war. Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her-people with gifts-and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance. She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch. Or from Warner, who wants Juliette...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2013
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Mafi, Tahereh.
Summary: "Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won'tlet her go without a fight."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAFOda, Eiichiro
Summary: "The Straw Hats have successfully freed the people of Dressrosa from Doflamingo's tyrannical grip, but can they make it off the island alive? With some of the Navy's strongest officers on their tail, Luffy and his crew are going to need some new allies!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016