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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Overlooked Americans, public policy expert Elizabeth Currid-Halkett breaks through stereotypes about rural America. She traces how small towns are doing as well as, or better than, cities by many measures. She also shows how rural and urban Americans share core values, from opposing racism and upholding environmentalism to believing in democracy. When we focus too heavily on the far-right fringe, we overlook the millions of rural Americans...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a culture trapped in the present tense, how can we keep the past from disappearing? When we lose sight of the past, our ability to understand ourselves on both a national and personal level is inhibited. While exploring the darker constants in modern American life - violence, militarization, rapid technological change, inability to be truly attentive - and the disorientation these elements induce, Colette Brooks examines how the past disappears...
Author
Publisher
Roca Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Spanish language edition
Physical Desc
558 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world.
Saliendo de prisión, Sombra se encuentra con el enigmático señor Miércoles, que dice ser un refugiado de una guerra antigua, un dios y también el rey de América. Juntos se embarcan en un viaje extraño a través...
Author
Series
American gods volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader--heading towards to the inevitable god war in this final arc to the bestselling comic series!" --
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What does it take to be a good American? And who gets to decide? Journalist Jess McHugh examines thirteen seemingly innocuous, mega-bestselling reference books, guidebooks, and self-help books that have become blueprints for core American values and shaped our national story"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction-with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The former speaker of the House reveals how "Big Government" socialism is crippling America--and offers strategies and insights for everyday citizens to overcome its influence.
Socialists have taken over the modern Democratic Party, big business, news media, entertainment, and academia. This "Big Government Socialism" is crippling America, and we have serious decisions to make about the future of our nation. Gingrich describes the polling that shows...
11) Founding gardeners: the revolutionary generation, nature, and the shaping of the American nation
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
x, 349 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 219 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had 'uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations.' In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still trying to measure the influence of the immense fratricidal...
Author
Series
American gods volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war."--
Author
Series
American gods volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jorge Ramos, an Emmy award-winning journalist, Univision's longtime anchorman and widely considered the "voice of the voiceless" within the Latino community, was forcefully removed from an Iowa press conference in 2015 by then-candidate Donald Trump after trying to ask about his plans on immigration. In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current research and statistics, with a journalist's nose for a story, and interweaving his own personal experience, Ramos shows us the changing face of America while also trying to find an explanation for why he, and millions of others, still feel like strangers in this country"--Back cover of English-language...
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