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Author
Series
Universal library volume 191
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1966, c1964
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Utilizing an innovative mashup of genres, including pulp fiction, dark comedy, and metafiction, This Book Is Not for You charts the actions of nineteen-year-old Neptune, a misfit and punk haunted by the death of his parents. Having fallen in with an anarchist group determined to blow up a university building, he steals the dynamite instead, igniting an entirely different brand of trouble: the murder of his mentor; a three-way manhunt; and the mystery...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power morphemes"-unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels as reined in as the mighty Ohio, a river confined by high floodwalls protecting his small Southern hometown. But all boundaries vanish when Thomas experiences first love with Alice, his new history teacher, a woman eight years his senior-and when he meets Shiloh, a misfit vagabond and anarchist who becomes his new role model. Fleeing to rural Vermont, this unlikely trio boldly pursues freedom,...
12) The east
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an operative from a private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group she unexpectedly falls for the group's leader.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Creation Lake is a novel about a freelance agent, a 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump"- making...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom?As Pitt delves into the case, he finds that there is more to the terrorism than the destructive gestures of misguided idealists. The police are running a lucrative...
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In 1892, Alexander Berkman tried to assassinate Henry Clay Frick for the latter's role in violently suppressing the Homestead Steel Strike. Berkman's attempt was unsuccessful. Berkman spent the next fourteen years in Pennsylvania's Western Penitentiary. Upon release, he wrote what was to become a classic of prison literature, and a profound testament to human courage in the face of oppression. This new edition of his account of those years is introduced...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump," making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her "contacts," shadowy figures in business and government-instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. In this region of centuries-old farms and ancient...
Author
Series
Ana Grey novels volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Recently returned to the job after a traumatic shooting incident, FBI agent Ana Gray is tapped for an undercover operation in which she is assigned to infiltrate a "family" of domestic terrorists led by the unstable and charismatic Julius Emerson Phelps.
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 1
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
2003, c1974
Language
English
Description
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of Emma Goldman, from her childhood in czarist Russia and emigration to the United States, to her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities and her fight against fascism during the Spanish Civil War.