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1) Iron gold
Author
Series
Red rising novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned"--
Author
Series
Record keeper volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. Everyone must obey the law--in every way--or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race. Arika Cobane is on the threshold of taking her place of privilege as a member of the Kongo elite after ten grueling years of training. But everything changes when a new student arrives speaking dangerous words of treason: What does peace matter...
3) Dark age
Author
Series
Red rising novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Every day across the U.S., 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In this sweeping debut, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe introduces us to the poor and unhoused of a small town in Washington, who grapple with desperation, a collapsing economy, and their own racism. Trash asks us to see anew the peril in which poor white people live. Can those deemed 'trash' join the resistance to the system that is killing us all?"--...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Invisible is the story of a young girl called Isabel and her family. They don't have much, but they have what they need to get by. Until one day, there isn't enough money to pay their rent and bills and they have to leave their home full of happy memories and move to the other side of the city. It is the story of a girl who goes on to make one of the hardest things anyone can ever make... a difference. And it is the story of those who are overlooked...
Author
Series
Fire sermon volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Concludes the story of psychic Omega Cass and her powerful Alpha twin, Zach, on a dystopian world struggling for balance between a backward government and its oppressed people centuries after a nuclear apocalypse.
9) Swept away
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
A trip into the Mediterranean Sea on a yacht becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
10) The seed of Cain
Author
Series
Record keeper volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"General Arika Cobane, beloved leader of the worker rebellion, makes a bold--but illegal--move to ensure the people's freedom. When her scheme fails and her co-conspirator hangs for treason, Arika--overworked and overwrought--blacks out. When she awakens, everything has changed. She's been stripped of her rank and power and the new leader of the Kongo, Kira Swan, is a charismatic traitor bent on consigning the Kongo under the guise of peace. Desperate,...
13) Broken Veil
Author
Series
Harbinger novels volume 5
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler's epic Harbinger series comes to a breathtaking conclusion as two women are swept into a battle that could destroy two worlds. Rescued from a world of poverty, Cettie Pratt has avoided a bleak destiny-until now. Deceived and manipulated, she has been groomed for the ultimate betrayal: to destroy her best friend and stop peace from uniting two war-torn worlds. Her path leads her to a mysterious underworld...
14) The Gilded Age
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
A typical average young woman, far from the standards of beauty established by the media, will try to conquer her former boss, a handsome and charismatic socialite who is used to interacting with beautiful actresses and models.
"Una típica joven promedio alejada de los estándares de belleza establecidos por los medios de comunicación, intentará conquistar a su exjefe, un apuesto y carismático socialité que está acostumbrado a relacionarse...
Author
Series
Snowpiercer. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[ebruary 2014]
Language
English
Description
"From fearsome engine to final car, all surviving human life is here: a complete hierarchy of the society we lost. The elite, as ever, travel in luxury at the front of the train - but for those in the rear coaches, life is squalid, miserable and short. Now the poor have had enough: it's time to seize control of the engine - and their future!" --
Author
Series
Moriarty the patriot volume 3
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero ... or a monster?.. Just as everything appears to be going his way, Sherlock finds himself arrested for...
18) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
Author
Series
Moriarty the patriot volume 10
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class caste system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? Adam Whiteley, member of the House of Commons, is willing to put his life on the...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Readers will be fascinated by this young adult adaptation of the nonfiction work as they follow narratives about real people that reveal an insidious phenomenon in the United States: a hidden caste system. Caste is not only about race or class; it is about power--which groups have it and which do not. Isabel Wilkerson explores historical social hierarchies, including those in India and Nazi Germany, and explains how perpetuating these rankings dehumanizes...
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