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Global Search and Rescue volume 3
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English
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Kidnapped by rebels while serving as an interpreter in Ukraine, Signe Kincaid has spent the past decade secreting out valuable information about Russian assets in the US to her CIA handler. Fearing for her daughter after being discovered as an operative, Signe sends her to former Navy SEAL Hamilton Jones for safekeeping. When Ham discovers the reason Signe has kept her distance, he must choose between love for his wife and love for the nation he...
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One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.
This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of...
4) Information wars: how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do about it
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Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn of events, authoritarian governments are increasingly using it to create their own false narratives, and democracies are proving not to be very good at fighting it.
During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard...
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Back in Canada after a harrowing vacation gone wrong, Michael Barrett tries to put all thought of Ukraine and his mysterious captor turned friend, Dmitri, from his mind. This would be a little easier to do if a million dollars had not just popped into his bank account. A mistake, a message? Would he ever put this adventure behind him, and did a part of him miss the only interesting, yet terrifying, thing that had ever happened to him?
6) Cold East
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The clock is ticking. Will Aidan Snow be able to save the world...again?
In Ukraine, MI6 operative Aidan Snow rescues a British national held by Russian insurgents.
In the United States, a terrorist attack is thwarted by a man who does not exist.
In Russia, a notorious Chechen terrorist escapes from the nation's most secure prison
In Afghanistan, a Red Army soldier long given up for dead delivers a chilling message: Al-Qaeda has an RA-115A.
As...
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(The authors will donate100% of the proceeds from sales of this book and ebook to the Ukrainian Foundation in April and May)
Who Stole the Dog Books? Can Dog-tention Save the Day?
Someone has been stealing Bash's favorite dog books from the library, books that help calm him when the world is too loud, too bright, or too busy.
Bash enlists the aid of Grandma Vera, a feisty immigrant from Ukraine and the town's assistant mayor, to help identify...
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36 years after the Chernobyl disaster, war has again embattled Ukraine. However, this time, unlike in 1986, the enemy is able to be seen and is not invisible. Russia is trying to take Ukraine and rebuild the Iron Curtain.
We will not let them.
I have known Evgeny for some time, we met via our connection with Chornobyl, and have spoken periodically ever since.
He showed me his diaries some time ago, and I had an idea to translate them to English,...
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"Stark remains a brilliant observer of the academia scene"-The Prairies Book Review Love Stephanie Plum's wit, Kinsey Millhone's grit, or Spenser's wry take on academia? Try the Doctor Rowena Halley series! Loves hurts. Sometimes it kills. After the tumultuous events of the previous semester, Russian professor Rowena Halley has found a new job. This time it's a one-semester adjunct position in Charlotte, North Carolina. Not ideal, but better than...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The Hype Machine is a machine that connects us in a worldwide communication network, exchanging trillions of messages a day. It was designed to stimulate our neurological impulses and draw us in, but it also persuades us to change how we shop, vote, and exercise.
#2 The debate about what happened in Crimea continues today. Russia denies it was an annexation, while...
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Clarity Press
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2022
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English
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Faced with the startling and blaring unity of global Western mainstream messaging, the public has become ever more distrustful of the MSM narratives—and with good reason. Authoritative sources have begun pushing back and offering cogent challenges to these proclaimed truths—and in turn, the digital gatekeepers have been increasingly cracking down on what they regard as unwelcome alternative views—irrespective of the stature of the persons
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