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Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.
After repeated coups and periods of military rule, Ghana is now one of Africa's longest enduring democratic republics. Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators compares the political proclivities of two generations of African Americans who moved to Ghana. Steven J. L. Taylor blends archival and ethnographic...
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"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but...
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[The author] turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to...
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In Cuba, Castro has finally relinquished power. . . . now a mysterious exile (Che Guevara?) returns to finish the revolution.
When a strange man appears in rural towns around Cuba quietly advocating a new kind of politics he calls "the True Republic," old-timers begin to suspect that the elderly stranger, who calls himself Ernesto Blanco, may actually be the martyr Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Shortly after Blanco's appearance, Fidel Castro steps down...
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Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these memoirs. It shows how, after years of incarceration, Charushin and friends thrived in Siberian exile, raising children and contributing to science and culture there. While Charushin's memoirs end...
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The wild hunt trilogy volume 2
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This sequel to Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper continues the story of a young man who has been sentenced to death, and then exiled, for his magical abilities.
As Gair struggles with grief over the loss of the only home he had known, and his beloved, he is walking into a conflict that's greater and more deadly than he or his mentor ever anticipated. A storm of unrest is spreading across the land and they are going to be caught up in it-at a...
7) Educated for freedom: the incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation
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The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery
In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation...
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In the Pictish kingdom of Cait, human stone-carver Eithni and her fey lover, the deer-woman Sable, survive in exile-even if they chafe at the need to hide their true selves from the people of Cenn River. But they know that if Sable's one-time liege, a Lightlord of the fey, finds them here in the mortal realm, his revenge will eclipse anything mere humans could enact ten-fold.So when gathering winter storms give rise to old superstitions about "The...
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Sequel to Lucky John
After years of exile during Commonwealth rule following the English Civil Wars, Owen Montgomery is home to stay in his Monmouthshire with John, the rescued kitchen lad who has become the light of Owen's life.
Owen has enjoyed eighteen months of peace since his tenure as an official envoy on behalf of King Charles II. In the autumn of 1661, Owen is torn from his comfortable life by a summons from his brother Lewis, a courtier...
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In the latter part of 1939, German leader Adolf Hitler made a pact with the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to invade Poland. Confident that British and French leaders would opt for a weak peace settlement, Hitler's army stormed in from the north, south and west on September 1st, while Stalin's Red Army invaded from the east on September 17th.
This story, part fact and part fiction, is an account of the suffering endured by the Polish people at this...
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As an assistant editor at the prestigious Hanhat Publishers, Evie Southiel is entrusted with fine-tuning the manuscripts of the company's most important authors. Her skills as a book witch allow her to manipulate the stories she reviews and bring them to life. When her girlfriend steals the secret manuscript of Hanhat's best-selling author and leaks it to the press, Evie is exiled to become a journey carrier with the Pack-Horse Librarians in the eastern...
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"Eddie's Bastard" is William Amos Mann IV, known as Billy -- the son of a heroic pilot killed in Vietnam and an unknown woman. The last in a line of proud, individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket at the door of the dilapidated mansion where his bitter, hard-drinking grandfather, Thomas Mann, has exiled himself. Astonished and moved by the arrival of his unexpected progeny, Thomas sets out to raise the boy himself -- on...
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DEA Agent Hector Ramirez is on his first undercover mission. He's been sent to a Buddhist monastery deep in the woods of Maine, where he's investigating a confusing web of connections between a Peruvian drug gang, a prominent Mormon family and the monastery's leaders. Dallin Rigby, the young son of a prominent Mormon family, has been sent on a year-long retreat while the scandal associated with his mission to Peru dies down. The men, the sex, the...
14) The Empty Throne
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The Kingdom of Cremisio is in turmoil-the royal family dead by assassination, a secret heir no one can find, and three enemy kingdoms fighting bitterly to each take control of Cremisio for themselves. If the missing heir cannot be identified and located, Cremisio will fall once and for all, and thousands of people will die with it. Only one person knows the identity of the missing heir: Lord Cohea Szelis, the Duke of Lindquist, also known as the Fox...
15) Snow Globes
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Based around the holidays, the Snow Globes series follows a family as it comes together over four winters. Daniel, an elementary school teacher with a big heart and a collection of snow globes to match his travels, longs for a place to belong. When a snowstorm strands him in the home of Jeff and his daughter, Abby, Daniel wonders if this could be the family he yearns for. Out of misfortune, can a wish come true? Over time, Daniel, Jeff, and Abby's...
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Savage Sword of Conan volume 1
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The Savage Sword of Conan is back from Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics!
Featuring an epic new Conan tale from John Arcudi and Max von Fafner, the rousing return of Solomon Kane written and drawn by Patch Zircher, an electric prose story from Jim Zub, spectacular art pin-ups, and more. The Savage Sword of Conan #1 heralds a new era of adrenaline-fueled adventure!
CONAN THE GENERAL - Warrior. Thief. And now, General... Promised riches beyond...
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Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society. Not long after the book's publication in 1790, Radishchev was condemned to death for...
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Une île en Méditerranée, trait d'union entre terre et ciel, lieu de l'exil et de tous les possibles. Certains natifs de génération en génération, perpétuent les traditions, les autres choisissent la liberté. Parallèlement, une autre île lointaine, parmi des milliers en jeux de miroirs éclatés, révèle la fragilité de l'existence. Vanina quelques décennies plus tt décidera de fuir l'héritage mortifère, tandis que Kimiko aujourd'hui...
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Border walls. Muslim registries. Refugees fleeing the U.S.In 2013, it was a warning. Now it's the news.What's next? Read it before it happens.----------Luis Ojeda owes his life to the Pacifico Norte cartel. Literally. Now it's time to pay. Luis helped American Muslims escape the U.S. during the ten years following a major terrorist attack on Chicago. He retired after a border guard left him near death. Now in 2032, the Nortes give Luis a choice: pay...
20) Heroines
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A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order―pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature."
― from Heroines
On the last day of December, 2009...
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