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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
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When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause-a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen-and it could spell doom for the entire world.
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
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"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
4) Untouchable
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Publisher
[M.C. Pending]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Seventeen-year-old Tessa has lived her entire life in a world where her worth is defined by her rank in society. And her rank just happens to be the lowest- the Unranked- the Untouchables. The people that aren't treated as people. Tessa has her ways of living outside the law, scavenging and robbing anyone who has a face. But after being elected reluctant leader of a band of Untouchable children, Tessa has more than one life to look out for. She has...
5) Untamable
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Series
Untouchable trilogy volume 2
Publisher
[M.C. Pending]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Tessa survived. After being thrown into an elaborate death trap, former Untouchable, Tessa of the Sapphire Ward, managed a narrow escape. However, not everyone made it out alive, and now she must learn how to bear the weight of the loss and heal from the Labyrinth. Finding herself in an alliance with a secret society outside of the walls of Radiance, she is finally safe. But safety lies. Tessa forms her own agenda and will do whatever it takes to...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. After an accessible overview, the book asks students to examine the privilege inherent in approaching heterosexual and cisgender identities as 'normal, ' as well as the problems of treating queer gender and sexuality as 'abnormal.' Compelling real-life examples illustrate theory and empirical research, revealing phenomena that shape...
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
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A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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In the late 19th century, the British Empire has become a global power. Due to the strict class stratification, the average citizen has little chance of successfully rising up to the top, where the despicable nobility rules over them all. William James Moriarty, the second son of the Moriarty household, is a young mathematics professor who has displayed great cunning and intellect since he was a child. Along with his brothers Albert and Louis, he...
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