Angela Jackson
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Español
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¿Por qué arriesgaron sus vidas las jóvenes británicas en unidades médicas durante la Guerra Civil española? ¿Por qué en España, cuando podían encontrar causas dignas más cerca? Las respuestas a estas y otras intrigantes preguntas pueden hallarse en este libro. A través de relatos orales y escritos, Angela Jackson analiza la interacción entre las mujeres británicas y la guerra en España, su motivación, su implicación y el efecto que...
2) The Darlings
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English
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A controversial new novel from the winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award. When Mark Darling is 15 years old, he is the golden boy, captain of the school soccer team, admired by all who know him. Until he kills his best friend in a freak accident. He spends the next decade drifting between the therapy couch and dead-end pursuits. Then along comes Sadie. A mender by nature, she tries her best to fix him and has enough...
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During a horrendous storm upon the North Sea, these Mariners sailed with all their might and courage and braved the icy waves towards a fjord on the east coast of Denmark. Their sail had been tethered and so the oarsmen rowed the vessel 'Thorknorr' towards some 'mudflats' into a cove where they anchored the longboat. These tribes from 700AD were self - sufficient and demonstrate how they foraged and built a temporary longhouse in the Aspen forest....
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Jacob returns to Keshin Ranch to look after the horses while his father goes to Europe on vacation. The old colonial ranch hasn't changed much over the years, but on Jacob's return to the old homestead he begins to dream about this mysterious white horse Mash, and the cotton plantation before the civil war broke out in 1862.
10) Blood Tree
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English
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Blood Tree is a story about slaves that come back to haunt those that hurt them. They were hung and bled out, left to die on the oak tree. And these were not slaves they were freed men.
Blood Tree is a folktale of haunting secrets of the past that brings forth vengeance in subtle way, prophesizing to young Black people that what happened in the past continues to live on in our presence. Blood Tree is about your past sins that come back to haunt you,...