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1) Gentlehands
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
2) Testimony
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At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire...
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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 22
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2023.
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In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village,...
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"Unmasking al-Qaeda Role" presents a meticulous exploration of the extremist group's profound influence on the political, social, and military landscapes of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. As one of the most formidable and influential jihadist organizations, al-Qaeda's ideologies and operations have significantly shaped the trajectories of conflicts in these nations, leaving an indelible mark on their histories.Central facets of the book include:Origins...
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In the early 1900s, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) committed the Armenian Genocide as part of their pursuit of Pan-Turkist and Pan-Islamist aspirations known as "ittihadism." The CUP also sought to Turkify non-Muslim property, reminiscent of the Aryanization program in Nazi Germany that targeted Jewish assets. The ittihadist dream was shattered when the Ottoman Empire collapsed following their defeat in the Great War.
Established in 1923...
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Con la firma de los acuerdos de paz entre el Gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP surgió la pregunta sobre la factibilidad de su implementación. Esta coyuntura hizo pertinente la reflexión sobre la implementación de las políticas públicas. Este libro contiene una selección de las ponencias más significativas del VIII Coloquio Internacional sobre Políticas Públicas: Implementación de Políticas Públicas y Construcción de Paz (2017, Universidad...
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La pandemia de la covid-19 ha significado un momento de reflexión para los procesos de integración de América Latina, los cuales se han visto desbordados por su impacto y consecuencias ante la falta de respuestas multilaterales, colaborativas y consensuadas, al preferir actuar de manera individual con prevalencia de soberanías nacionales sobre una actuación de soberanías compartidas. Con ello se está demostrando que, en lo institucional, se...
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Este libro analiza el lugar que ocupan las víctimas de crímenes de Estado en Colombia en los escenarios transicionales creados a partir de la implementación de la ley de Justicia y Paz. Tomando como referencia los escenarios que han surgido a partir de esta ley, se consideran algunos marcos de participación determinados para las víctimas en los escenarios judiciales, algunas de las prácticas que se generan como resultado de la reinserción paramilitar...
9) Alibi
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Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany during World War II, travels to Venice in 1946 to meet up with his wealthy expatriate mother, and finds the city untouched, but the people deeply ravaged by the war, a fact that becomes dangerously clear when his lover Claudia, a Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust, meets up with the Venetian doctor who happens to be his mother's new suitor.
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To his friends and neighbors, Glenn L. Carle was a wholesome, stereotypical New England Yankee, a former athlete struggling against incipient middle age, someone always with his nose in an abstruse book. But for two decades Carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis about nearly everything. "I was almost never who I said I was, or did what I claimed to be doing." He was a CIA spy. He thrived in an environment of duplicity and ambiguity, flourishing...
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Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-Fiction
The story of Pec-Kosovo's most destroyed city during the wars in Serbia
For every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed.
Reporters weren't allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned he...
12) American War
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Explore the intricate web of American foreign policy in this insightful and comprehensive book that delves into the nation's diplomatic journey on the global stage. From the founding fathers to the present day, this meticulously researched work traces the evolution of U.S. foreign policy, unraveling the key decisions, turning points, and global engagements that have shaped America's role in international affairs.With a keen focus on the motivations,...
13) Comando conjunto: El grupo de exterminio más secreto de la dictadura. Edición revisada y actualizada
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El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes—Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo—desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio. El organismo secreto fue responsable de brutales secuestros, torturas, desapariciones y asesinatos en distintos centros de detención de Santiago.
Parece volver a ser necesario, quizás más necesario que nunca, recordar el horror....
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Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 3
A Dr. Ruth Galloway Mystery volume Bk. 3
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 3
A Dr. Ruth Galloway Mystery volume Bk. 3
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 3
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Just back from maternity leave, Ruth is finding it difficult to juggle motherhood and work. The presence of DCI Harry Nelson—the married father of her daughter, Kate—does not help. The bones, skeletons of six men with their arms bound, turn out to be about seventy years old, which leads Nelson and Ruth to the war years, a desperate time on this stretch of coastland. Home Guard veteran Archie Whitcliffe reveals the existence of a secret the old...
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls," politicians, activists, and celebrities from all around the world-among them First Lady Michelle Obama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai-protested. Some of the...
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While the flames of World War II still raged, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin issued a warning to the Nazi leaders. Those responsible for the torture and murder of millions of innocent and defenseless civilians were promised that "... the three Allied Powers will pursue them to the furthest corners of the earth and deliver them to their judges so that justice may be done."
That promise was not kept. Justice was not done. In 1945, twelve of the most...
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“Unstable Ground” looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity-ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence.
Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including...
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Los acontecimientos de la última década exigen nuevos enfoques para prevención de atrocidades que sean adaptables, innovadoras y independiente de una doctrina centrada en el estado. Con el Objetivo de reducir los factores de riesgo como la guerra civil, defendemos una nuevo marco normativo llamado El derecho a ayudar (DA), lo que fortalecería la coordinación internacional y Apoyo a las campañas de resistencia civil no violentas que exigen derechos,...
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Les événements de la dernière décennie exigent de nouvelles approches en matière de prévention des atrocités, qui soient adaptables, innovantes et indépendantes d'une doctrine centrée sur l'État. Dans le but de réduire les facteurs de risque tels que la guerre civile, nous soutenons un nouveau cadre normatif dénommé Droit d'Assistance (DdA), qui renforcerait la coordination internationale et le soutien aux campagnes de résistance civile...
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Somewhere Out There is a story of one person's experience with being, adopted. Most adopted children do not have any medical history or accurate information on their story. The author's search for a medical history sheds light on the many barriers that adopted children face trying to get information.
Adopted from Homestead Maternity Home in Fort Worth, Texas, she learns how the agency "marketed" their services and the similar stories told to adoptive...