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This book opens a window into the world of people who are forced to flee their homeland to survive: refugees. To understand this world, you'll read the words, stories, hopes, expectations, and often despairs of the refugees themselves. Danielle Vella takes the reader along on her travels from Africa to the Middle East to Europe to the US to meet and interview refugees -and tell their stories.
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Cleo, scion of a once-prominent Cuban family and a promising young writer in her own right, travels to Spain to collect a prestigious award. There, Cuban expats view her with suspicion--assuming she's an informant for the Castro regime. To Cleo's surprise, that suspicion follows her home to Cuba, where she finds herself under constant surveillance by the government. When she meets and falls in love with a Hollywood filmmaker, she discovers her family...
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Esta es una historia de ignominia y muerte donde se exploran la fortaleza y la debilidad ocultas en el hombre, expresadas en el asesinato del padre, ritual tan antiguo como vigente, para reconocer nuestra naturaleza ambigua, aceptarla y amarla.
In this novel, reality hits hard. Someone must die to atone for accumulated guilt and this someone is the father. Rather than being representative of nobility, kindness and respect, he is all the opposite....
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It has been nearly seventy years since Hitler's armies won the war, and sixteen-year-old Zara St. James lives in the Shenandoah hills, part of the Eastern American Territories, under the rule of the Nazis--but a resistance movement is growing, and Zara, who dreams of freedom, may be the key to its success.
10) Incantation
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During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.
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Les sectes fermées peuvent constituer un environnement o des enfants subissent des mauvais traitements qui sont justifiés par une idéologie religieuse. Les jeunes vivant dans ces communautés isolées doivent alors être protégés, mais intervenir en milieu sectaire est ardu et beaucoup plus complexe qu'on peut l'imaginer.
Quels sont les défis auxquels sont confrontés les professionnels des services sociaux quand ils ont à intervenir auprès...
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Each time the issue of racism is mentioned, tensions immediately run high, reason is thrown out the window, and emotional outbursts run rampant. Even though a lot of effort has been done to fight it, the devastating consequences continue to this day.
In this book, Dr. Tangumonkem challenges the status quo and presents a perspective that is both provocative and inspirational. Contrary to what you hear from those stoking the flames of racism and fermenting...
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Three young women go to help rebuild Afghanistan for different personal reasons. Their mission is largely successful until they are kidnapped. In meeting with the natives - both the good and the bad, and in interacting with one another in good times, and bad times, they discover love beyond themselves. Overshadowing them is an Afghan warrior-princess, who is as much a part of the controversies in the land as she becomes a part of theirs. There is...
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The Xaverian Missionaries of the United Kingdom and the United States organized an international conference of dialogue and exchange between humanists, atheists, and religious believers. This journal is a compilation of the presentations and reflections that built bridges of understanding and challenge to both the atheists and the theists. It is hoped this journal will encourage others to come together in respectful dialogue, seeking the common ground...
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This book covers the history of humanity from the garden of Eden to present day and how humans find a way to ignore the rules of God and society which eventually leads to their demise either physically or spiritually. The author uses personal experience and events of the last half century combined with Biblical application to bring the reader to an awareness of why people act the way they do when it doesn't seem to make sense. Prophecy in the Scriptures...
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As we move along in this century, many of us as men and women have encountered some type of destructible traits in our lives, whether it may be turmoil, adversity, mental illness, persecution, or even slavery.
In fact, many of us of our loved ones will suffer from these destructible traits while being incarcerated physically with the ability to gain a imprison mind. While on the other hand, those who are in the free world can also be in prison, not...
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This work, carried out prior to the creation of The Republic of South Sudan, focuses on the Christian perspective of reconciliation and peace in South Sudan. In a country gripped in what was set to be, until recently, Africa's longest running civil war the Sudanese state had been, on many occasions, inherently unjust, repressive, and extremely violent against sections of its own citizens resulting in long lasting conflict and war. This conflict has...
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Since heretics have positively revolutionized history and ecclesiastical dogma, we ought to praise and celebrate their lives. Whether we agree with their theology or not, we ought to emulate their bravery and boldness. If you would like to honor Martin Luther, Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, and Peter Waldo, make sure to read this book.26 pages; 25 poems.
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Terrorism could be the heading of the running chapter in human history though strife had always been its grand title. Assorted terrorist groups, to espouse their parochial causes, have been targeting their ideological opponents with utter cynicism but with articulated grievances and identified opponents besides defined terror zones that are amenable for containment and redressal and / or both, at some stage or the other.
But what of the jihadi terrorism,...
20) The Impact of Ethnic, Political, and Religious Violence on Northern Nigeria, and a Theological Re
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This publication seeks to challenge established thinking about the causes of violence in Northern Nigeria. It explores immediate and long-term effects of that violence through reflection, study, and survey of previous research. The fundamental argument within is that ethnic, political and religious violence has affected Christian perspective and core values and thus has hampered efforts towards just peacemaking.
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