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1) Reckoning
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Explores ways to create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honor the dead, to reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose. It reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand one's unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one's own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom"--
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English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it--to the sheriff, to his defense...
Pub. Date
[2013], c1986
Language
English
Description
Boom and bust economic cycles are inevitable in countries that are dependent primarily on resource exports - for example, Canada's reliance on minerals, timber, and wheat. Perhaps the most spectacular boom and bust experienced in Canada was the Alberta oil crisis in the '70s and early '80s. A drop in world oil prices meant that business people who knew how to ride a tornado (as one man described the experience) simply cut their losses and moved out...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, tales of workplace harassment were prevalent. During the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, it gave men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus. And yet legal, political, and cultural efforts, often spearheaded by women of color, were quietly paving the way for the takedown of abusers and harassers. Hirshman delivers the sweeping story of the struggle...
Author
Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan returns to investigate the disappearance of a mobster's daughter with ties to cases better left untouched.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The Reckoning will examine America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer...
Author
Series
Darkest powers volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Chloe, a necromancer, struggles to understand her feelings for werewolf Derek and his sorcerer brother, Simon, while seeking a way to enter the headquarters of the sinister Edison Group and rescue her aunt Lauren and friend Rachelle.
10) The reckoning
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Shunned from the Plain community, Katherine Mayfield is now living the modern life she used to dream about, a life that includes the attention of a handsome suitor. Yet, as the seasons pass, her heart yearns for her Amish family . . . and the love she left behind. This special edition includes photographs from the set of the Hallmark Channel original movie!
11) Reckoning
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the powerful families who control the Board bring their battle for supremacy to Port Authority, Falise Taglioni is chosen to ensure her family emerges triumphant, while the inhabitants of Port Authority, genetically altered, tough and self-reliant, prepare to defend their planet.
12) The reckoning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Shunned by the township she was raised in, a young Amish woman finds herself enjoying an affluent life in the secular world and engaged to a successful businessman. When a long lost love unexpectedly returns from her past with a startling revelation, she is torn between her newfound modern life and the simplicity of her humble past, and must now choose the life, and the man, that wll finally give her peace of mind.
13) The reckoning
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After losing her husband during the Great Plague, Grace is unjustly accused of being a witch and placed in the custody of England's most ruthless witch-hunter, Judge Moorcroft. Forced to endure torture while steadfastly maintaining her innocence, Grace faces her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.
14) The reckoning
Author
Series
Zodiac Academy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The week of The Reckoning has begun. And senior students have been tasked with making the freshmen's lives pure hell as we prepare to take the assessment that will decide whether we stay at Zodiac Academy or lose our places here forever. With the lunar eclipse on the horizon, my sister and I have more to worry about than just passing of our exams. A dark plot is unfolding and the shadows are drawing closer. It looks like our enemies could be closer...
15) The reckoning
Author
Series
Taker volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of immortal woman Lanny, whose obsessive desires compel her to risk everything and influence the destinies of Luke, Adair, and Jonathan.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The film begins with vengeance: U.S. General Douglas MacArthur’s 1945 military trial of Japan’s General Tomoyuki Yamashita for horrific atrocities in the Philippines. Despite the lack of any evidence that Yamashita ordered or even knew about the atrocities, he was condemned to death, raising the question: Are commanders responsible for crimes their troops commit?
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sue Klebold, Mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold, gives her first television interview nearly 17 Years after the tragedy. She talks about her relationship with her son, about the victims, and about what happened inside her home leading up to the Columbine shooting. Diane Sawyer examines teenage mental health, warning signs of a child in crisis, and the possibility of preventing the next school shooting.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Drawing on first-hand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, the author highlights the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded-racism, segregation and class inequalities.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Language
English
Description
After 9/11, the U.S. government turned to torture-in defiance of domestic and international laws-to extract information about and from incarcerated terrorists and others who might become terrorists. Were it not for defense attorneys and human rights organizations, those prisoners would be ignored. But that's changing. The ACLU and the international literary and human rights group PEN have teamed up to comb through 150,000 declassified documents to...
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