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1) The deluge
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
2) Rampage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Life for Ethan and Zo used to be simple. Ethan co-founded a lucrative media start-up, and Zo was well on her way to becoming a successful filmmaker. Then they moved to a rural community for a little more tranquility--or so they thought. When newfound political activism transforms Zo into a barely recognizable ball of outrage and #MeToo allegations rock his old firm, Ethan finds himself a misfit in his own life. Enter a houseguest who is young, fun,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Wonderfully wicked ... a nonstop, pedal-to-the-metal romp." - Chicago Tribune Over-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making-and detonating-from a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the master Elmore Leonard's electrifying and explosively funny thriller Freaky Deaky. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls Leonard, "the world's greatest cops 'n' robbers novelist." The Seattle Times says, "Leonard is more...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale. Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As 1947 opens, Eva Cardon is the twenty-four-year-old owner of Washington, D.C.'s, most famous Black-owned restaurant. When her path crosses with Courtland, a handsome white senator from Georgia, both find themselves drawn to one another--but the danger of a relationship between a Black woman and a white man from the South could destroy them and everything they've worked for. Few women own upscale restaurants in civil rights era Washington, D.C. Fewer...
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