Author: Guat Eng Chuah
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Category : Malaysian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Sarah Dyck
Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Sarah Dyck's selection and skillful translation of the memoirs of people who survived the Soviet inferno between 1915 to 1950 opens a rare window through which readers can begin to grasp the reality of life in the Soviet empire for those judged to be "enemies of the People". These stories provide graphic, personal documentation of a land and a people in turmoil. Volume 1 in the Mennonite Reflections series.

Author: Anne Malcom
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Languages : en
Pages : 432

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People make love seem complicated. Intricate. Novels try to capture its intensity; music tries to rein in its soul.I've read every novel I could. I've lived and breathed every song that I could listen to. The sounds fill my unquiet mind.Then he came.Killian.He brought with him the beauty of silence that echoes through my soul and showed me love isn't complicated. It's simple. Beautiful.Some say love at first sight doesn't exist, that you can't find your soul mate at sixteen years old. Those are people rooted in reality, chained to the confines of life that dictates how you are meant to think. Killian broke those chains. He broke everything, shattered it so I can see that reality is overrated, that daydreams can somehow come to life.My life tumbled into darkness in the time after I met him, so dark I'm not sure I'll ever see the light again. But he is always at my side. His life means he knows how to navigate the dark and he can lead me out.I wade through the darkness with him at my side.We'll be together forever; I'm certain of that.Until I'm not.Note: This is book one of two. Killian and Lexie's story does not end here and will be continued in a following book.

Author: Robert Flynn
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875654746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Robert Flynn's new novel, Echoes of Glory centers on a fictitious Texas county that embraces its legends, but not its actual history. Set in the Reagan era, the novel exposes shared myths as lies and the truth, lacking all comfort. In his inimitable style Flynn paints a portrait of the denizens of the county who tacitly embrace the legend as all too human and all too frail. Overshadowed by the accomplishments of adjacent Doss County, Mills County clings to its legends—the legendary Mills brothers. One brother had died at the Alamo, one at Goliad, three had fought at San Jacinto. The three survivors marched into the center of Texas bringing with them stories of heroism and acorns from the San Jacinto battlefield. According to tradition, they planted an oak tree for each hero who had died at the Alamo. Then there was Timpson Smith, sole survivor of Second Platoon of Marine reserves, who had prevented the North Korean army from driving U.S. and U.N. forces into the sea. To honor their memory the county erected a monument, "Second to None," topped with the heroic figure of Timpson Smith. But there is a less heroic side of Mills County. When Deputy Sheriff Larry Maddin decides to run against Sheriff and Local Hero Timpson Smith, and a drama professor at the university announces that he will write a play depicting the true story of Second Platoon, many fear the dark underside of Mills County will be exposed.

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Languages : en
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Los Angeles high school students look at photographs of the ruin and destruction of human life and property caused by the Germans during WW II. A docent of the Martyrs Memorial of the Jewish Federation Council recounts for them how the Nazis separated Jews and then sent them to death. It is important, she tells them, to learn how to live with persons of diverse cultures and beliefs so that such mass extermination may never happen again.

Author: May Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781960174031
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The world knows me as the Demon's Daughter. He's a famous serial killer. And I may have been his accomplice. But no one knows for sure except for me. The dangerous, cruel men of the Sphinx secret society intend to uncover my secrets...and break me. Stellan, my childhood crush who lost his sister to the Demon. Cain, the boy with the face of an angel to who manipulation comes as easy as breathing; Remington, the playboy soccer star full of secrets. Pax, the dark psycho who hides behind his fists. I hoped for a second chance at Darkwood University, only to have my dream ripped away the first time I kissed one of the handsome bastards. They know who I am. And they're determined to make me pay. They should have thought twice about who they were playing with. Because I am the demon's daughter. And just because they have the power, the connections, the faces and bodies of gods... do they really think they'll win? I wanted a new life, not a war. But if they insist, we'll see who ends up playing.

Author: Alison Hughes
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459817087
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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With soft illustrations and soothing text, this is a quiet story about learning to find calm in the busy world around you. When the party's over and the baby finally falls asleep, when the dog is all barked out and the screens are dark, the Silence pads in on soft, furry feet. A warm, comforting presence, the Silence curls up in a sun-beam like a cuddly cat and helps you read, think and be still. The Silence is friends with the Dark. Together they soothe the jagged edges left when the Noise has rolled on and gently launch the boats of your dreams into the night. When the day becomes overwhelming or other feelings become too big, the Silence slips in.

Author: Nomi Dave
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665463X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution’s Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be. Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution’s Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.

Author: Andre Norton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812552744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Two American astronauts, a man and a woman, sail into space to search for a missing team of Russian scientists. The search takes them to a planet which is populated by aliens who have devolved into animals.

Author: Patrick W. O'Bryon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991078295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Berlin, November 1941. Targeted by enemies and abandoned by allies, agent Ryan Lemmon has a serious problem. His American handler hopes he will fail. The Gestapo has posted his image across the Reich. And the Criminal Police have already picked up his scent. His hands are tied and his options few. Then, from a tram on crowded Alexanderplatz he spots a ghost from his past. Faced with a chance to acquire valuable intelligence, he joins a criminal enterprise rife with danger where his failure could undermine the entire British was effort. A sequel to the Corridor of Darkness trilogy, Echoes of Silence evokes the menace of Nazi Germany at the moment its conquest of Europe appears both imminent and certain.