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"English anthropologist Andrew Banson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband, Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen...
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English
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Forty-year-old librarian Johanna Holland has settled into a rut, working all day and caring for her aging parents at night, and she is forced to learn to trust her future to God when her mom and dad announce plans to move to an assisted living facility and Sam Littleton, a widowed doctor with a calling to the mission field, appears in her life.
Author
Series
Notes from a spinning planet volume 2
Language
English
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Traveling in Papua New Guinea with her journalist aunt, twenty-year-old Maddie becomes fast friends with Lydia, a young woman with dreams of becoming a medical doctor--and a very dark secret.
8) Mister Pip
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
Español
Description
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic "Great Expectations."
10) Skylance
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Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
America's advanced top-secret reconnaissance plane is shot down in western New Guinea. Stony Man is dispatched to do the impossible : recover the plance or destroy it. Caught in the cross fire of a raging civil war, Bolan's army goes up against the shock troops of a first-world industrialist fighting his private war against America.
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