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Series
Age of uprising volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Torwyn burns as Sanctan Egelrath tightens his grip on power. The Draconate Ministry has gathered its forces, determined to eradicate the Guilds, but Rosomon Hawkspur still stands in their way. Her only hope could lay with Lancelin Jagdor, sent to gather allies in their struggle against the usurper. Can even the greatest warrior in Torwyn hope to succeed with so many adversaries determined to stop him? Tyreta returns home with newfound strength and...
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Language
English
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"Exploring the Greater Middle East, which encompasses much of the Arab world, this book weaves together classic texts, immersive travel writing and voices from every country to reveal the impacts of history on the present state and make the case for classical realism as an approach to this vast region"--
Author
Series
Nameless republic novels volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traumatized by their escape from Bassa, Lilong and Danso have found safety in a vagabond colony on the edge of the emperor’s control. But time is running out on their refuge. A new bounty makes every person a threat, and whispers of magic have roused those eager for their own power. The journey home will be long, filled with twists and treachery, unexpected allies and fabled enemies. But surviving the journey is the least of their problems. Something...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business. But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling is abducted by Imperial soldiers, Enitan abandons her idyllic plans and weaves her tea tray up through the heart of the Vaalbaran...
5) Valdemar
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The refugees from the Empire have established a thriving city called Haven with the help of the Tayledras and their allies. But the Tayledras have begun a slow withdrawal to the dangerous lands known as the Pelagirs, leaving the humans of Haven to find their own way. But even with Haven settled, the lands around Haven are not without danger. Most of the danger comes in the form of magicians: magicians taking advantage of the abundant magical energy...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country's independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Another group of soldiers, completely cut off from the outside world, blindly follow the brutal orders of their commander in the name of serving their...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Defiant and vulgar, Princess Kaguya Takenouchi is not the heir to the moon's Silver Court that her mother's retainers had hoped for. But when the empress falls ill during a wave of terrorist attacks, Kaguya resolves to do right by her people and rise to the occasion. Unfortunately, Kaguya's enemies are a step ahead of her, and she ends up ejected from the moon and stranded on the primitive Tainted World below. Can she find her way back to the moon...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate officially takes effect, the British Empire - now covering a quarter of the world's land and boasting a population of 460 million - is the largest the world has ever seen. But it is also an empire in rapid transition. Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, Australia to the West Indies, One Fine Day is a tour of the British Empire at its pinnacle. Here, the Empire is at its biggest; but it is on a precipice,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Arias's debut opens with a blaze at an American Fruit Company's banana plantation in 1968 Costa Rica that has long-term consequences for Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family. Nearly three decades later, Teresa is dealing with an estranged daughter who wants to know about the fire, even as she must face her husband's ongoing absence and the imprecations of her mother's furious ghost.
13) Instruments of empire: colonial elites and U.S. governance in early national Louisiana, 1803-1815
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Michael Beauchamp's "Instruments of Empire" is an examination of the challenges posed to U.S. territorial expansion by the Louisiana Purchase, a development that transferred the sovereignty of a territory with a population who by birth, language, and religion differed substantially from the inhabitants of the United States, but who had been guaranteed the rights of full citizens. Beauchamp suggests that the subsequent process of gradual accommodation...
Series
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume examines the historical connections between the United States' Reconstruction and the country's emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism,...
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