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37 Ink
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[2017]
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English
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In this collection of award-winning stories, Maxine Beneba Clarke gives voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, and the mistreated. Her stories will challenge you, move you, and change the way you view this complex world we inhabit. Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on...
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This dramatic story gives an insight into the effects of war on individuals. We tend to see "war" as a whole and from a faraway distance. Here, you take a look at the raw and real situation of events. You get to know the characters and understand how the war affects their lives. Though it's fictional, it reflects on real events happening to people.
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Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with impunity. Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy to Tripoli in 1801 to repel "force with force." The Barbary War was also a proving ground for such young officers as William Bainbridge, Stephen...
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Maigret volume 6
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Français
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Inspector Maigret sets out to unravel multiple mysteries on foreign soil, aided by a bilingual Finnish cop.
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"Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory--in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war. Moved by her father's frustration, Noah's daughter...
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During the Vietnam era, many of the U.S. Navy SEALs (SEa, Air, Land commandos) never filed for a Purple Heart unless they were severely wounded. Thomas H. Keith, Master Chief, SEAL Team 2, is living proof. He carries a piece of shrapnel behind one lung, a reminder of the day he called in 40 mm mortar fire on the enemy that was trying to catch up to his crew as the crew hauled ass out of the bush. Not only did he never report it, it was never removed---it...
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"On a summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, two girls make a startling discovery: a young Arab man washed up on shore, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging against across the sea. When a simple plan to help the stranger goes horrifically wrong, all must face the consequences they have set in motion"--
12) Dead Ringer
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Mercy Lawrence is terrified. Bermuda airport facial recognition software has identified her as missing runway star, Traci Wallace. Despite Mercy's protests, Traci's husband, ex-CIA agent Thomas Wallace, is convinced Mercy is the mother of his ill six-year-old son. With only his son's welfare in mind, he abducts Mercy and takes her to a private island to care for the boy. But Mercy soon discovers there are men much more dangerous than a father desperate...
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Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They were not alone: Sherman, Davis, Jackson-nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers had been forged in the heat of Vera Cruz and Monterrey.
The Mexican...
14) In the Ruins
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All's fair in love and war, but only if you cheat.
Captain Jamie Callahan and Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan know the Metahuman Defense Force frowns on fraternization, but being together is worth the risk. When an Alpha Team mission requires Jamie and Kyle to fake a very real relationship in order to infiltrate a criminal alliance, Jamie understands it won't be easy. To ensure the mission is a success, he'll have to put his family's name on the line...
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A naïve nineteen-year-old Nigerian student, Emeka, meanders through the chaotic streets of Lagos under uncertainties and insecurities, on his way to the airport, hoping to realize his lifelong ambition of traveling to America. When he arrives in America, landing at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, he quickly realizes that he is now in a new world, far from the life he lived in Africa, culture shock staring him eyeballs to eyeballs. Fifteen minutes after...
16) Ruined Lives
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When Sandy Shores joined the CIA right out of college, she had no way of knowing that in fifteen years she would be returning home for good, too badly injured by a foreign general to continue her career with the agency. Opening a private investigators office seemed the logical thing to do, but getting involved with murder, multiple personalities, and rape were not in her plans. When she is dragged off into the forest to die and it becomes necessary...
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Love, honor, and family ties are intertwined in this epic tale set during World War I. A searing drama, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tells of a wealthy Argentinean family who quickly learn that the war is not to be taken lightly and find that their loyalties are split by the political turmoil around them.
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Because of wartime rationing, World War II folks faced fresh challenges to feed their families. The thought of running out of food or not being able to make ends meet led to great effort, many of these citizens had not so long ago survived the hunger of the Great Depression.
Many people are familiar with the concept of victory gardens, but does this seemingly quaint, archaic practice have more to teach us today? How did soldiers cope with their hunger...
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Erwin, Walter, John and Bruno Sax are four Jewish brothers, who fled Czechoslovakia ahead of the Nazi German takeover, before World War II.
Escaping down the Danube River, during dangerous times, they reached Palestine, where they enlisted in the British Army. Captured on Crete, they spent four years interned in a Prisoner of War camp in Poland, always under threat and constantly fearful for family members who had stayed behind.
Surviving the war,...
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Emeka is an immigrant who has just arrived in America, landing at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. He quickly realizes that he is now in a new world, far from the life he lived in Africa, culture shock staring him from eyeballs to eyeballs. Finally, Emeka seeks love on foreign soil and might find it in Nicole, but a miscarriage of justice and his arrest for crimes he didn't commit throws his future into chaos.
“Just Arrived” is a vivid portrait of an...