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82) 47
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Number Forty-Seven, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
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"Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven...
84) Avalon
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"Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon."--
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This website provides editorially independent news reports and commentary from local reporters to promote democratic values in European countries where free press is banned or not fully established. RFE/RL is a private, nonprofit corporation funded through the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent federal government agency.
86) In focus
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This website includes uncensored news reports from Asian countries on human rights violations, freedom of expression, political persecution, and other topics.
87) Radio Free Asia
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This website provides editorially independent news reports and commentary for listeners in Asia and elsewhere where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation funded through the US Agency for Global Media, an independent federal government agency.
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"Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined point in the future. It was a revolutionary march with its...
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In the long-awaited follow-up to his 2016 best-seller The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray interrogates the vicious new culture wars playing out in our media, universities, homes and perhaps the most violent place of all: online. The Madness of Crowds is a must-read polemic-a vociferous demand for a return to free speech in an age of mass hysteria and political correctness. The global conversations around sexuality, race, mental health and...
100) Polaris
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"Jeth Seagrave and his crew of mercenaries are pulled into one last high-stakes mission"--
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