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2) Towers Fall
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Towers trilogy volume 3
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English
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War. Fire. Destruction. Xhea believed that the Lower City had weathered the worst of its troubles-that their only remaining fight would be the struggle to rebuild before winter. She was wrong.
Now her home is under attack from an unexpected source. The Central Spire, the City's greatest power, is intent on destroying the heart of the magical entity that resides beneath the Lower City's streets. The people on the ground have three days to evacuate-or...
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life
Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | "This book is simply terrific." —Heather Cox Richardson | "Ambitious and engrossing." —New York Times Book Review | "A must-read."
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#1 Kenyon College is a small, liberal arts school in Ohio. It was given a $75 million donation in 2017 to build a new West Quad, which included a new admissions office. The school is known for its rich and diverse student body, but one of its neighbors is the last remaining source of good blue-collar jobs in the area.
#2 The students at Kenyon College, a small liberal...
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The Book of Revelation describes natural disasters that we have only recently come to know about: coronal mass ejections, global wildfires, asteroid impacts. Could it be that they lie not far in the future? The vision of the four horsemen came to pass in 1870-1945. Nineteen centuries after the Romans drove the Jews from their land, Israel in 1948 was restored to statehood, and Jesus foretold that there would be people alive then who would still be...
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Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes, the resentful “non-college” crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries, seem on the brink of a civil war. This conflict is, the culmination of an almost, secret history of the United States since World War II, centered on the college diploma and how, it devolved from a symbol of America’s commitment to learning,...
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Dark Tower (graphic novels) volume 4
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Marvel Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Upon discovering the deadly seeing sphere known as Maerlyn's Grapefruit has been stolen, Steven Deschain also finds that his son Roland has murdered his mother.
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English
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"Discover the true story of the Twin Towers--how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed. When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers--also known as the World Trade Center--and the buildings were seen as...
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, a deeply reported look at the broken state of college in America, arguing that access to college is the defining political issue of our time, propelling everything from Occupy Wall Street to the election of Donald Trump to the George Floyd protests.
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When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home. Includes author's note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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This title examines Ground Zero from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the cleanup of the debris of the Word Trade Center to the construction of the Freedom Tower, the Tribute in Light, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and the continued rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex's buildings.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 16
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English
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In this homage to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Faith Fairchild is asked to cater a very small, very private college reunion on an isolated New England island-an event that could be her dream job. But when she discovers the true reason for the get-together, not even the spectacular ocean views can keep it from turning into a nightmare. Thirty years ago, bestselling suspense writer Barbara Bailey Bishop lost her twin sister in a tower...
13) Ninth Ward
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English
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In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
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Frederica Potter series volume 4
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English
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Amid the effervescence and turbulence of the 1960s, Frederica finds a career in television in London, while events in Yorkshire threaten to turn her life and the lives of the people she loves upside down.
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English
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It's unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It's unimaginable because in 1814 enemies didn't fly overhead, they marched through the streets; and for 26 hours in August, the British enemy marched through Washington, D.C. and set fire to government buildings, including the U.S. Capitol and the White House. Relying on first-hand accounts, historian Jane Hampton Cook weaves together several different...
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Eon Kid volume 16
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English
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Marty Ally and Violet try to escape but are stopped by Kahn the General's second-in-command. Meanwhile the CDF forces have their hands full in rounding up the Iron Tower employees and guards but are ambushed by the General's forces and forced to retreat as the Iron Tower falls into the hands of the enemy.
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Dark Horse Comics, LLC
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The world of Guts, the Black Swordsman, is changing in a hurry. Though a demonic maelstrom has leveled the dreaded Tower of Conviction and ended the reign of terror of its grand inquisitor, Mozgus, peace has not returned to Midland. The Tower's fall has heralded the unexpected return of Griffith, Guts former leader, last seen transformed from a shattered husk into one of the demon lords of the Godhand. but Griffith looks like his old self again —...
19) Sugar
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In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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In the past 15 years we have seen the Towers fall again and again in a series of powerful documentaries and TV shows. Movies have expertly rendered the courage of first responders and the passenger takeover on United Flight 93. But in the smoke of 9/11, one story still remains largely overlooked: the attack on the Pentagon...On September 11th, 184 people lost their lives at the Pentagon. Today many people are surprised to hear that the Pentagon was...
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