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Synopsis: This is a story of environmental concerns, mired in the corruption, politics and race of present-day South Africa. It involves two unlikely protagonists: Paul Fairfax is a disillusioned environmental scientist, while Asha is a singer, unsure of her career and choices in life. They meet ...
Citizens’ stories of state abuse, from secret wiretapping to unjust imprisonment and worse, make headlines daily. In the hands of novelist Gordon Dale, they drive a masterful political thriller. As Fool’s Republic opens, Simon Wyley floats in a tiny all-white cell. A short-order cook ...
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A young boy grows to adulthood watching the horrors of the Pol Pot regime destroy Cambodia. One in a series of ten stories in the compilation A Collection of Dirty Little Stories.
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Anita Tavares just arrived at the Santo Domingo airport in the Dominican Republic, and she is there on crucial business. Tavares is the powerful and highly visible face of a worldwide HIV/AIDS donor foundation. She's in charge of funding in an effort to fight the disease, and she'll stop at no...
A man from a traditional Irish family decides to be a movie star with the help of family and friends he succeeds. He is enamored with the power that seems to accrue with stardom. Weary of this he decides to take advantage of his celebrity and make a career change. Thinking that his starpower stat...
A rollicking debut novel set in a Scottish fast-food joint. Think Nick Hornby for the anti-globalization generation!
T.O. Reynolds,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Xlibris Corporation
Chris Chaney,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Xlibris Corporation
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The 1960s still loom in the national rearview mirror as a kind of cultural myth. Where did it all come from - the activism, the violence, the drugs, the counterculture, the permissiveness, the radical politics - and what were they thinking? This book answers these questions in a neat ciném...
Louis Auchincloss,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Alex Crane is on top of the world. President of one of the largest banks in the country, an early retirement to beautiful Lake Wawasee is not far away. But when a routine audit reveals that tens of millions of dollars have been skimmed from his bank's IRA accounts, his apparently secure world is ...
Steven Fazekas,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by AuthorHouse
Mick Smith,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Xlibris Corporation
Thomas Essama Mveng,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Xlibris Corporation
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. For many, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death is required reading for various courses and curriculums and for others, who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic wo...
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Set in Scotland after the Jacobite rebellion, young David Balfour leaves home and goes to the sinister House of Shaws. There, he finds himself kidnapped, the victim of his uncle's plot to cheat him of his inheritance, aboard a ship bound for America. He teams up with the Jacobite loyalist and spy...
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Upton Sinclair’s muckraking masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicago’s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, an...
Rodrigo Garcia Bernal,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by AuthorHouse
It is the year 2020 and the world has become a place run by a socialist/corporatist government. The preceding ten years brought about large changes in America and the world as laws were passed that enabled the government to take total control of people's lives. Hunting, sports, eating real food...