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"The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now the late 90's and despite their parent's harrowing past, Ai and her tightknit group of school friends: charismatic Brigitte, sweet, endearing Bowie, shy, inscrutable Tin, and politically minded Sying, lead seemingly ordinary lives, far removed from the unimaginable...
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Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this novel is based on the author's personal story. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege...
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A brand-new space fantasy novel from master world-builder Valerie Valdes! A refugee with a secret, a dangerous foe, and a road trip that could either save a planet or start a war.
Where peace is lost, may we find it.
Five years ago, Kelana Gardavros lost everything in the war against the Pale empire. Now Kel Garda is just another refugee living on the edge of an isolated star system. No one knows she was once a member of an Order whose military...
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"S.L. Hinde's intensely interesting volume 'The Fall of the Congo Arabs'...describes the Belgian expedition into the Upper Congo Basin in 1892...some...observations are too horrible for quotation...the passion for cannibalism."-Chicago Tribune, March 11, 1897
"Captain Hinde...entered the service of the Congo Free State...got his chance to distinguish himself in the remarkable campaign by which the Arab power was overthrown...soldiery on both sides...
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"Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers, by Samuel C. Reid...is the most entertaining work of the kind that has come under our view...gives an accurate account of the scouting expeditions of McCulloch's Rangers...including the skirmishes with the Indians...sketches of the lives of those celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker." -Natchez Weekly Courier, March 22, 1848
"Samuel Chester Reid...joined Captain Ben McCulloch's...
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In her Muslim hijab, with her downturned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans." "Twenty years ago, Najwa then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class, westernised Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But Najwa's days of innocence ended when a military coup forced the young woman and her family into political...
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The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886—1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of US ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany,...
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"Burgon identifies Petra with ancient Edom, and reads its present-day desolation as the fulfillment of biblical prophecies concerning Israel's ancient enemy." - The Creationist Debate (2006)
"Petra...lies in ancient Edom, a perfect place of refuge from the Antichrist during the Tribulation period." -The A Complete Overview of Bible Prophecy (2012)
"Petra stands in the land of ancient Edom, modern-day Jordan." - The Swindoll Study Bible (2018)
"Petra...
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The author of the bestselling We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada (LLP 2022), Toula Drimonis traces the history of sanctuary, examines myths about refugees and migrants, and interviews with migration.
Human migration and the right to seek asylum from harm have been constants throughout the history of human existence. But only recently has Canada been forced to confront a global displacement crisis that much of the rest...
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"Dr. J.H. Allen of Portland...a strong and interesting speaker and many of his ideas and the results of his researches are original and unique...ancestry of Queen Victoria has been traced all the way back to Adam." -Spokane Chronicle, Nov. 8, 1902
"J.H. Allen, evangelist, is evidently a man who believes that the Bible says is the word of God...the author dispels the prevailing notion that all prophecy is fulfilled...the children of Abraham are to...
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Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Françoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light on the life trajectories of various groups of Jews, including displaced persons, partisan fighters, hidden children, and refugees from Nazism.
Ouzan shows that personal success is not only a...
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