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The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction examines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex psychological and moral subjects. Employing relevant methodological tools of narrative theory, Erin McGlothlin analyzes these unsettling depictions, which manifest a certain tension regarding the ethics of representation and identification. Such works,...
45302) A Theft
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A THEFT IN AMENHOTEP III'S PALACE. A CRAZED QUEEN. CAN KIYA RESTORE PEACE TO THE PALACE? When the Queen's earring goes missing, the entire court of Amenhotep III descends into chaos as the Pharaoh and his Queen search for the only link she has left to her beloved father. In desperation, and fear of Queen Tiye's formidable wrath, the Pharaoh calls in his High Seer and High Priest in the hopes the gods may look favourably upon their search, and guide...
45303) Margaret Bourke-White
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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As a young girl, Margaret Bourke-White dreamed of having great adventures-the kind only a brave and fearless woman would have. As she grew up, she found that the camera was her ticket to adventure. Her portraits of people in terrible circumstances-from the desperate farmers of the Dust Bowl to the victims of World War II's horrors-made her famous worldwide. With her camera always at the ready, Margaret faced many challenges, including floods, bombings,...
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When you play a double game, if you lose… you die.
Tasked by General Napoleon Bonaparte with effecting a perilous entry into the fortress convent of Valletta, Lieutenant Vanderville sides with a renegade Maltese desperate to end the oppressive rule of the Knights of St John.
When his companion is lost, the mission goes from bad to worse as he discovers treachery and murder are stalking the agents he is supposed to be meeting, his only allies....
45306) King Alfred of England
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The biography of Alfred the Great, the ninth-century king who fended off the Vikings and converted their leader to Christianity.
King of Wessex from 871 to 886 AD, and king of the Anglo-Saxons until 899 AD, the man who would later be known as Alfred the Great saved his realm from the Vikings even as surrounding kingdoms fell to them. He then made the conversion of the Vikings' leader, Guthrum, to Christianity a condition of their peace treaty-and...
45307) The Homecoming
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The Land Girls are back in a brand new story from the creator and writer of the popular, award-winning BBC drama.
Your favourite Sunday teatime drama brought to life on the page!
Land Girl Connie Carter thought she'd finally left her past behind once and for all when she married Henry Jameson, Helmstead's vicar and the love of her life. Headstrong Connie and mild-mannered Henry might be different as chalk and cheese, but she's determined to be the...
45308) Refugees on the Run
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Imagination station volume 27
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Over 1 Million Sold in the Series!
When kids step into the Imagination Station they travel back in time and across the world with cousins Patrick and Beth. Each book is historically accurate, and readers will grow in their faith and knowledge of history as they race through each unforgettable story.
In Refugees on the Run, the cousins meet Lena, a Jewish girl from Lithuania. Lena and her extended family, who are Jews from Poland, are desperate to...
45309) Marine Air Group 25 and SCAT
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Marine Air Group 25 was a pioneering combat air transport unit that entered overseas service during the Guadalcanal campaign in September 1942, helping to achieve the first American offensive victory of the war in the Pacific. It quickly gained fame for its rapid delivery of vital supplies and its lifesaving evacuation of casualties. During the fight for Guadalcanal, Marine Air Group 25 became the nucleus of the joint-service SOPAC (South Pacific)...
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One loan child, with a fear of being lost and a passion to learn, unknowingly travels a path leading to his discovery of secret government technology problems that could destroy the US space program and the lives of courageous astronauts.
Realizing that his special secret knowledge could be sold to the highest bidder, those in power are forced to believe he is a Russian Spy, not once, but three times.
Along his reluctant journey of endless mystery...
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In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal system like that of Europe in the Middle Ages. But everything began to change when American Commodore Perry and his troops sailed to the Land of the Rising...
45312) The Black Buccaneer
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In 1718, long before the turbulent years of the American Revolution, life on a Maine sheep farm is a quiet affair. But unbeknownst to 14-year-old Jeremy Swan, his island home is ripe for plundering by sea raiders, who swoop down and drag him away. Once aboard the Revenge, it's all he can do to keep from getting keelhauled by the villainous Pharaoh Daggs. But what sinister secret is that pirate hiding in his trunk? To find out, Jeremy enlists the help...
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"What would it be like to keep a secret for fifty years? Never telling your parents, your children, or even your husband?"
“Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park” tells the true story of Daisy Lawrence. Following extensive research, the author uses snippets of information, unpublished photographs and her own recollections to describe scenes from her mother's poor, but happy, upbringing in London, and the disruptions caused by the...
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Pierre Loti livre ses impressions à la découverte d'un Moyen-Orient fastueux et enchanteur.
En mai 1900, de retour d'Inde, Loti entreprend de traverser la Perse (l'Iran actuel) et de se rendre à Ispahan, voyage qu'il raconte dans ce récit publié en 1904. Il est tout d'abord frappé à son arrivée par la vision des monuments d'émail bleu, aperçus de loin. Mais il rapporte que le silence et l'isolement autour de la ville sont tels que l'on...
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Pioneering Across America
They came with courage, faith and optimism... and very little else. The stories of dauntless spirit told here include the author's ancestors who pioneered across the ocean in 1618 and 1620 to Jamestown and Plymouth. The odyssey continues with chronicles of 18th century Pennsylvania and crossing the Appalachians with Daniel Boone. Revolutionary War tales, Oregon Trail sagas, triumph and heartache are all wrapped up in this,...
45316) A Small Person Far Away
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Out of the Hitler time volume 3
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Partly autobiographical, this is the third title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past... Berlin is where Anna lived before Hitler, when she was still a German child; before she spoke a word of English, before her family had all become refugees. Long before her happy new existence in London. But Mama is...
45317) New Mexico Filmmaking
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The moderate climate and majestic western landscapes of New Mexico make it an enchanting locale for the motion picture industry. Thomas A. Edison's crew shot the very first film in the state at the Isleta Indian Pueblo in 1897. Silent-era icons like directors Romaine Fielding and Tom Mix shortly followed to take over the small town of Las Vegas, setting the stage for an explosion of western movies. Today, New Mexico's generous incentive programs and...
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Biographer Steven J. Holmes once wrote that John Muir was "one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity." In his lifetime, the engineer, author, biologist, and activist worked alongside powerful men such as President Theodore Roosevelt, railroad executive E. H. Harriman, and conservationist Gifford Pinchot. Muir was responsible for the creation of the Sierra Club and he played an important role in preserving the Yosemite...
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In the spring of 1863, Union colonel Abel D. Streight sought to raid and destroy parts of the vital span of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in north Georgia with his mule-riding infantry brigade. Determined to thwart the potentially deadly attack, Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest fervently pursued Streight's forces. With the help of unlikely ally fifteen-year-old Emma Sansom of Gadson, Alabama, Forrest falsely convinced Streight he was...
45320) Button Down
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Ever since local boy Lester Ward got drafted by the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, Tugs Button's scrawny cousin Ned can think of nothing but football. Sure, Lester's younger bully of a brother is determined to keep Ned and his gang from ever getting near a real pickup game. But Ned has a few things going for him: he can catch and sometimes even throw, much to his surprise. And he's got his eccentric grandpa Ike, who may have less get-up-and-go these...
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