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What has to die before you force yourself to change? That's the question facing the always quirky and often-queer characters of Canary. From the communal showers of a hot yoga studio to seedy pubs on Vancouver's East Side, from Catholic merchandise salesmen to hitchhiking teenage lesbians, the people and places of Nancy Jo Cullen's debut are asphyxiating slowly on ordinary life. Yet in this joint-smoking urban underground, we also glimpse the families,...
5002) A Cry in Unison
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In Debrecen, Hungary, Judy grows up in a warm and lively family, but when the Nazis invade in 1944, she is crowded into a ghetto, her life now shaped by fear and hopelessness. When the cattle cars take Judy and her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, she truly leaves her precious childhood behind as she scrambles to survive in the shadow of the gas chambers, one brutal day at a time. Judy survives by clinging to her sisters, to friends, and to fleeting...
5003) Holy Ceremony
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Ariel Kafka novels volume 3
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The third in the Ariel Kafka series. There are two Jewish cops in all of Helsinki. One of them, Ariel Kafka, a lieutenant in the Violent Crime Unit, identifies himself as a policeman first, then a Finn, and lastly a Jew. Kafka is a stubborn, dedicated policeman with wry sense of humor, always willing to risk his career to get an answer. A woman's body scrawled with religious texts is found in a Helsinki apartment. It turns out she wasn't murdered:...
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Des témoignages poignants de prisonniers de guerre durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
«Ils m'ont volé mes plus belles années », m'a un jour confié Marcel Goffin, 20 ans en 1940 et prisonnier en Allemagne jusqu'en 1945.
Combien ont-ils été, jeunes hommes et femmes, à subir le même sort? Combien restent-ils aujourd'hui à pouvoir raconter? Leur nombre se réduit forcément d'année en année, hélas. Pour éviter que leur histoire s'efface...
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Volker R. Berghahn is the Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University. His books include American Big Business in Britain and Germany and Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (both Princeton).
The moral and political role of German journalists before, during, and after the Nazi dictatorship
Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades....
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En el campamento de los yanquis se ha producido un tiroteo
A Dionisio Romero le han acribillado a balazos en este poblado de infraviviendas a las afueras de Madrid. Todos los vecinos saben que la cosa no va a acabar así, que en ese lugar la sangre se lava con más sangre. Y lo primero que se encuentra Javier Valenzuela al llegar al lugar de los hechos es a un chaval de 14 años que busca un cigarrillo para liarse un canuto y que palmea por bulerías....
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Mayo del 68, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Entender el descontento generalizado de la sociedad francesa que conduce al Mayo francés, en especial de los estudiantes, que no se identifican con los valores que se promueven
• Analizar la actuación de los distintos actores que intervinieron en el...
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The Jeremiah Bible Study Series captures Dr. David Jeremiah's forty-plus years of commitment in teaching the Word of God. In each study, he will help readers understand what the Bible says, what it meant to the people at the time it was written, and what it means to them today.
Sections in each lesson include:
• Getting Started: An opening question to introduce readers to the lesson
• Setting the Stage: A short reflection to explain the context...
5009) A Matter of Time
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One morning, with no warning, Gopal, respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father, walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big House, where her parents live in oppressive silence: they have not spoken to each other in 35 years. As the mystery of this long silence is unraveled, a horrifying story of loss and pain is laid bare-a story that seems...
5010) A Promise of Sweet Tea
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In A Promise of Sweet Tea, a Jewish community comes alive in this vividly told story of a childhood interrupted by the Holocaust. In his wry and evocative prose, Pinchas Blitt conjures Kortelisy - a humble, vibrant village in the backwoods of western Ukraine. Young Pinchas lives in fear of Cossacks and wolves and the local antisemitic children, but he finds belonging in the rich texts and traditions of his ancestors. When the Soviets invade, Pinchas's...
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Ce livre raconte une histoire oubliée. Celle d'une étonnante modernité qui s'est propagée à Montréal au début du xxe siècle. Des spectacles amalgamant revues d'actualité, épisodes de films d'aventures américains, sketchs, chansons, parodies et monologues faisaient le bonheur du public venu se distraire, même le dimanche! Sur scène et à cté de l'écran, c'est la langue de la rue et des manufactures qui se faisait entendre.
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One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global...
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"An admirably balanced assessment of an enormously complicated man who, wrongly but not ignobly, stood athwart history." - Kirkus Reviews, starred
"Elegantly written, delicately nuanced, this compelling account brings Joe Kennedy and his family to life." - Bob Self, author of Neville Chamberlain: A Biography
"A thoroughly revisionist but remarkably persuasive history of Joseph P. Kennedy's years in London" - David Nasaw , author of Pulitzer Prize–nominee...
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From bestselling author Melody Carlson comes a series about four friends determined to change their lives … and their world: Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily-The Girls of Harbor View. Each of the eight books in this complete collection contains unique stories about the girls, their friendship and faith, and their desires to make their lives and their world a better place.
Girl Power: The four friends meet and band together against some local bullies....
5015) Daring to Hope
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When Rachel and her husband, Avrumeh, escape from the Siemiatycze ghetto in Poland one cold winter night in 1942 with their four-year-old daughter, Chana, they are desperate for refuge. Turned away by their closest friends, they are forced to wander the countryside looking for places to hide and asking for help from strangers and acquaintances. For close to two years, every day is filled with uncertainty for them and for the courageous farmers who...
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On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem's King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory Government of Palestine. The ensuing explosion killed ninety-one Britons, Arabs, and Jews, in roughly equal numbers, at the time the greatest death toll...
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In August 1914, the Isle of Man was in the middle of a very successful summer season. The tourist industry was crucial to the island, but suddenly holiday-makers left and the Steam Packet vessels that normally brought them were requisitioned. The future was uncertain for those who relied on the season and their pleas for assistance were ignored. For some, the cost of living became impossibly high and without the welfare measures that had been brought...
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In Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below, Norrin M. Ripsman explains how regional rivals make peace and how outside actors can encourage regional peacemaking. Through a qualitative empirical analysis of all the regional rivalries that terminated in peace treaties in the twentieth century-including detailed case studies of the Franco-German, Egyptian-Israeli, and Israeli-Jordanian peace settlements-Ripsman concludes that efforts to encourage peacemaking...
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A book of images of a Wolverine family deep in the forest of Northern Finland. Some of these photographs show behaviour that has rarely been seen in the wild - a female Wolverine lactating, and feeding kits outside of the den, and that are already two thirds fully grown. This book is also a tribute to the Conservation efforts to bring this animal back from the brink of extinction in Finland.
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In Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s, Michael Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony over an international economic order under attack abroad and lacking support at home. The goal of the nations that supported NIEO was to negotiate a redistribution of money and power from the...
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