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Author
Publisher
eBookPro Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Munich, 1945. Max Fischer cannot remember anything from his life before the concentration camp. Not his family, not his occupation, not even his own name. All he is left with is the sickening, maniacal laugh that echoes in his head. More than haunting his every waking moment, the laugh is Max's only connection to his lost past. For a holocaust survivor, recalling the past comes with a heavy toll. Just months after the allied forces liberated the...
Author
Series
League volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
726 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
""It's official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?" Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But surrender isn't in him. He will fight to the bitter end. A resolve that is sorely tested when he narrowly escapes a trap that leaves him severely wounded. With what...
Author
Publisher
Larson Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With some 200 million people affected by armed conflict or genocide, refugees are appearing in record numbers. War Torn takes us beyond the headlines into the lives of civilians caught up in war's destructive power in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Guatemala, and Sri Lanka. Alongside stories that convey the destruction and heartbreak of armed conflict, Ken Miller captures the courage and resilience he calls "a remarkable kind of light," an essential counterpoint...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This powerful memoir weaves the stories of valiant women who survived the Rwandan genocide with the struggle of their champion, Karen Sherman, to recover from her own history of abuse. The strength of these women helped Karen find her own way--through conflict zones and confrontations with corrupt officials to a renewed commitment to her family.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor's autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Rithy Panh was only eleven years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks. But defying the odds is what this Gyron Force officer does best, and Bastien won't rest until he lays his betrayers in their graves. Ten years later, he...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million...
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
205 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : colour illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A hundred days of carnage, twenty-five years of rebirth--Provided by publisher.
In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were...
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