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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

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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Mafi, Tahereh.

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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

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

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

Lynch, Paul

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYN

Balibrera, Gina Maria

Summary: "A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies, the ghosts of their murdered friends, who aren't yet done telling their stories. El Salvador, 1923. Graciela grows up on a volcano in a community...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024

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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

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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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

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

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.

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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

Mafi, Tahereh

1 hold on 1 copy

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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Mafi, 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."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in YA Series, Call number: YA FIC MAF

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."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013

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Mafi, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

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

Lynch, Paul

Summary: "On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC LYN

Mafi, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014

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

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

Mafi, Tahereh

1 hold on 1 copy

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't let her go without a fight."--

Format: text

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

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Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: "Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians arent free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Hes left with only two...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEP

Mafi, Tahereh.

3 holds on 3 copies

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Sepetys, Ruta

1 hold on 1 copy

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: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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Jacobs, John Hornor

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...

Format: text

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

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

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