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1) Eyes open
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English
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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.
2) Brotherhood
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"After a fundamentalist Islamist government publicly executes two young people for being in love, their mothers begin a secret correspondence to deal with their grief that leads to the publication of an underground newspaper and ultimately a rebellion."--
3) The betrayed
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English
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"Carrying on her late father's fight against the dictatorial regime in control of The Philippines, while her flamboyant older sister Lali reacts to his death by marrying the enemy, shy, idealistic Pilar is prey to her desires and ambitions as she tries to find her place in a rapidly changing world."--
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The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty, and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth...
5) Prophet song
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English
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A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards...
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"Under the protection of the Orbis Mercenary company, Michael and his family and friends are deeply involved in the seemingly rival conspiracies that are tearing The Hollows apart. With the death of the King, both the Corrupt Prince and his sister Serena are vying for the throne, while the Rebel Emperor is spreading lies amongst the people, and all of them want Michael dead"--
7) Born in salt
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Fifty years after a coup replaced President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a fascist dictatorship, America is a land of hopelessness. Ben Adamson, a 19-year-old farm boy in southern Illinois, wants only to spend his time fishing and hunting. But when his dead brother demands justice for his suspicious fate in a colonial war, Ben and Rachel, his brother's fiancée, are drawn into an underground revolutionary movement. After staging a rally against the...
8) Shatter me
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English
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"One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. An opportunity for a deadly weapon. Juliette has never fought for herself before. But when she's reunited with the one person...
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English
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"A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them are an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma. The Chairman's power is absolute and appears strong,...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"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 manuscript. See About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Then she...
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Español
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"La autora de Lágrimas en el mar y Entre tonos de gris regresa con un extraordinario y cautivante relato de amor, silencio y secretos situado en la época de la dictadura de Franco en España. Madrid, 1957. Bajo la dictadura fascista del General Francisco Franco, España esconde un oscuro secreto. Entre los empresarios y turistas extranjeros que llegan al país con la acogedora promesa del sol y del buen vino se encuentra Daniel Matheson, hijo de...
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Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
On Dec. 13, 1981 Mehmet Shehu, a man who was number two in the Albanian government, was killed. Was it murder or suicide? Many different politicians in the country might stand to gain from this death. A wonderful analysis of dictatorship and communistic government.
13) Destroźa me
Author
Series
Shatter me ; 1
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La piel de Juliette es mortal. La uĺtima vez que toco ́a alguien, lo mato.́ Por eso lleva 264 diás encerrada en una celda, sin tocar a nadie. En el exterior, el mundo esta ́devastado: los animales, las plantas y el cielo azul no son maś que el cuento de un pasado feliz. Las personas que han sobrevivido solo tienen una palabra en sus mentes: ±guerra». Y Warner, un joven perverso, es quien intenta restablecer el orden en medio del caos{u2026}...
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Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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 exile. Arriving full of hope, the musician discovers that...
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