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A New Atlantis 

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The 5th Wave

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Paperback features over fifty pages of bonus materials, including a sneak peek of Insurgent, an author Q&A, a discussion guide, a Divergent playlist, faction manifestos, and more! In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her. Veronica Roth is the New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, the first in a trilogy of dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.

Divergent

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Herland is a novel by an American feminist, sociologist, novelist, poet, scientific writer, teacher and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.Herland is a Utopia. The book describes an isolated society that consists only of women, who reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). As a result, they have an ideal social order: no wars, conflicts or dominance. The novel wasn't published as a book until 1979.

Herland

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The History of a Radical Poem, from Percy Shelley to the Triangle Factory Fire

Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley's poem "The Masque
of Anarchy," from its conception in Italy and suppression in England to the moment it became a
catalyst for protest among New York City workers a century later.

Shelley penned the poem in 1819, after hearing of the Peterloo Massacre, where British cavalry
charged peaceful political demonstrators near Manchester. His words would later inspire figures
as wide-ranging as Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi--and also Pauline Newman, the
woman the New York Times called the "New Joan of Arc" in 1907. Newman was a Jewish immigrantnbsp;who worked in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and came to be a leading organizer--and
the first female organizer--of one of America's most powerful unions, the International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union. As she marched with tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of New
Yorkers in the streets, Shelley's poem never ceased to inspire her.
"Shake your chains to earth like dew," it implores. "Ye are many--they are few."

Masks of Anarchy

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An American Scandal in Black and White

When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation--and forced the couple into an annulment trial. "A compelling read."--Boston Globe "This is a great story....Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone tell it very well."--Chicago Tribune

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