Ahmed, Sara
Summary: "As long as feminists have existed, they have been accused of being "killjoys," "buzzkills," "party poopers," and "wet blankets." For having the audacity to insist on a more-just world, feminists are criticized for getting in the way of other people's happiness. In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, renowned feminist theorist Sara Ahmed reclaims the feminist killjoy-showing how killing joy can be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 AHMLittman, Sarah
Summary: "After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, Declan Taylor accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again. He's forced to get a job to help his family out, and his best friend, Jake Lehrer, is flirting with Declan's crush, or ditching him to hang out with the team or his friends from synagogue. Declan plays a lot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LITWillrich, Michael
Summary: "In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property. Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants. But to many others, anarchism was a terrifyingly foreign ideology. Determined to crush it, government officials launched a decades-long “war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 WILBurrough, Bryan
Summary: An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and America's revolutionary counterculture documents terrorist activities stemming from radical beliefs, tracing the stories of such groups as the Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BURKeith, LeeAnna
Summary: "A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEITalty, Stephan
Summary: The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from a master of narrative nonfiction. No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORESH, DAVID TALSummary: Set in the very near future, it centers on one family's struggle to survive an occupied Los Angeles, now a dangerous world of divided ideologies. While some choose to collaborate with the occupation and benefit from the new order, others rebel and suffer the consequences. Will Bowman a former FBI agent, and his wife Katie have been separated from their son during the invasion and do whatever is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLAlinsky, Saul David
Summary: First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 ALIFanone, Michael
Summary: "An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FANONE FANMacLean, Nancy
Summary: "An explosive expose of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution. "Perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government." --Booklist (starred review) Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 MACSummary: The continuing story of Will and Katie and their family as they struggle to stay together in occupied Los Angeles in the wake of an alien invasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLSummary: It traces the events that led McVeigh to that day and recounts the stories of the survivors, first-responders, US Marshals, FBI investigators, and journalists who covered the events. The film provides an in-depth and provocative exploration of the white supremacist, extremist militia movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s and still makes news today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OKLSummary: From executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Ryan Condal (Hercules), the critically acclaimed drama returns for it's third and final season. Colony Season 3 begins six months after the end of the previous season, with the Bowman's now living in a cabin in the woods and trying to rebuild a life outside of the walls. When they are reached by a group of Gray Hats, they are forced to run away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLCruz, Ted
Summary: "The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. In this shocking new book, Senator Ted Cruz takes readers inside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 CRURonson, Jon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.42 RONSummary: "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLAContents: Tommy gun (live from Shea Stadium) (The Clash) -- MPLA (Tapper Zukie) -- Soul rebel (Bob Marley) -- There is power in a union (Billy Bragg) -- This land is your land (Woody Guthrie) -- Choice of colors (The Impressions) -- Backlash blues (Nina Simone) -- When the revolution comes (The Last Poets) -- H2Ogate blues (GIl Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson) -- Out of the blue (Robert Wyatt) -- Rock el...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2008
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJPicciolini, Christian
Summary: "At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist ideology, a neo-Nazi terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. By the time he left the movement years later and was able to see clearly for the first time, Picciolini...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 PICSchatz, Kate
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political, social, and cultural movements in American history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SCHBontinck, Dimitri
Summary: Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend, fell into the clutches of a radical mosque. Dimitri watched helplessly as his son, Jay, transformed from a gentle boy to a soldier in training, wearing traditional robes and following a strict diet. Completely brainwashed, Jay snuck out of the house and traveled to Syria, all but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONTINCK, DIMITRI BONDallek, Matthew
Summary: "Founded in 1958 by a small band of anti-New Deal businessmen, the John Birch Society held that a vast communist conspiracy existed within America and posed an existential threat to the country. Birchers railed against the federal government, defended segregation, and accused liberal elites of conspiring to destroy the country's core values--Christianity, capitalism, and individual freedom....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 DALHoffman, Abbie.
Contents: Contents: From Revolution for the hell of it -- From Woodstock Nation -- From Steal this book -- New writings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Walls Eight Windows 1989
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Summary: "In the near future, as fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a boat headed to Ireland, which is rumored to be accepting refugees and is the last country not yet overrun by extremists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022