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Righting Wrongs
20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World
2022
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2022 INDIES Winner Silver, Juvenile Nonfiction (Children's)Many young people aren't aware that determined individuals created the rights we now take for granted.The idea of human rights is relatively recent, coming out of a post–World War II effort to draw nations together and prevent or lessen suffering. Righting Wrongs introduces children to the true stories of 20 real people who invented and fought for these ideas. Without them, m...
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- Alexa Elmy
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- The Bond Trilogy
Unabridged
11 hours 37 min
2022
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Winner of the Bronze Medal in the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.Kirk brings the reader into an intricate, well-imagined world— a landscape so credible it instantly feels like a classic. Beth Kander, author of the Original Syn TrilogyTrust what you see, not what you’re told.In a society that made males obsolete, the Weave engineers a female’s abilities. Girls like Dinitra are engineered by Sowers and assigned their life purpose when they turn ...
2021
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AESTHETIC: A Dark Academia Anthology is full of Young Adult and New Adult fiction set in academic settings! The included genres span Murder Mysteries, Thrillers, Dark Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, and Sci-Fi all written by 25+ authors from around the globe.
The Shining Path
A History of the Millenarian War in Peru
- Translated by
- Robin Kirk
2000
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First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde’s reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the governmen...
More Terrible Than Death
Drugs, Violence, and America's War in Colombia
2009
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More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis of the political realities that shape the expanding war on drugs and the growing U.S. military presence there. Looking at the war from the ground up, interviewing and profiling human ...
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- Bloodhound
2014
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Ex-con and FBI consultant Travis Clevenger may not have superpowers, but he can put a beatdown on anyone who does! When a superhuman tragedy shocks the nation, a rogue scientist announces that he can avert future disasters by granting powers to citizens who pass his personal background check! The ensuing wave of new superhumans and national panic sets Clevenger and Special Agent Saffron Bell on their biggest--and most personal--case yet! Collects Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine #1-#5...
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2011
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An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the political map of Latin America and gave hope to those resisting colonialism everywhere. In The Story of Che Guevara Lucía Álvarez de Toledo follows Che from his birth in Rosario and his early years in his pare...
- Translated by
- Anna Kushner
2009
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"A compelling fictional personage-by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding."—Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAn audacious "biography" of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late ...
A Lexicon of Terror
Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
1999
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"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and ...
2011
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An exposé of the controversial friendship between Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Fidel Castro.Few contemporary writers are more revered by Americans than Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. And few political leaders are more reviled than Fidel Castro. Yet these two seemingly disparate men are close friends. What could possibly unite these tw...
Pablo Escobar
My Father
2016
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM PABLO ESCOBAR’S SONUntil now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar – from books to film to the cult series ‘Narcos’. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only capturing half the truth, and never from the intimacy of his own home. Now, more than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with Escobar, his so...
Murder City
Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
2010
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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad.In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants-a beauty queen ...











