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Tsao, Vincent

Summary: "JUNTA is the game of power, intrigue, money and revolution in in an all too familiar banana republic. In this multi-player game, the players, as the ruling families of la Republica, connive, cajole, threaten and ally their way to the fattest Swiss bank account. Players and critics alike have recognized JUNTA as a classic among games. The Washington Post praised the tense, fun play, GAMES...

Format: three dimensional object

Publisher / Publication Date: West End Games 1985

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Pandi

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAN

Feathers, Beka

Summary: "Why the people? Is democracy actually the best form of government? Does it ever work like it's supposed to? Join Lin and Julie as they wonder aloud how America can ever be a democracy when citizens seem to disagree about everything. With them, we are whisted through political history, journeying through different systems of power, including monarchy, theocracy, dictatorship, and oligarchy....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 FEA

Mafi, Tahereh.

2 holds on 2 copies

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAF

Sepetys, Ruta

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIC

Dikötter, Frank

Summary: "Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 DIK

Sepetys, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019

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Dikötter, Frank

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 DIK

Davis, Kenneth C.

Summary: "A nonfiction account of some of the deadliest dictators in modern history." --publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company 2022

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 920 DAV

Mafi, Tahereh

Summary: With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette must navigate relationships, both old and new, as she continues her mission to take The Reestablishment down once and for all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Montero, Rosa

Summary: "Hablar de algunos de los tiranos mas conocidos del siglo XX a traves de la vision de sus esposas, amantes e hijas, y del lugar que la mujer ocupaba en sus proyectos megalomaniacos, es poder ahondar en la historia europea desde otra perspectiva y ampliar la comprension de las tragedias sociales por medio del analisis de las tragedias domesticas. Es como meterse por la puerta de atras de las...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Debols!llo 2017

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MON

Oda, Eiichirō

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ONE

Clark, Andrea Yaryura

Summary: "New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Kramer, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KRA

Ressa, Maria

Summary: Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RES

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESSA, MARIA RES

Atogun, Odafe

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATO

Cardenas, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Kendzior, Sarah

Summary: "Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye? Do you see enemies all around you? If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing, well, you've just stumbled upon the playbook that will guide you step by step towards making your big lie a reality. Join Gaslit Nation co-hosts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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Mafi, Tahereh

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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 postapocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Miller-Lachmann, Lyn

Summary: Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sónia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIL

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIL

Sepetys, Ruta

1 hold on 3 copies

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SEP

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Septys 2019

Applebaum, Anne

Summary: "From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 APP

Kershaw, Ian

Summary: "From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age's uniquely devastating despots-and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KER

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