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Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries
“Ripped from the headlines,” this book connects current and recent events as seemingly disparate as the murderous conflicts between narco-traffikers on the streets of Juarez, Mexico, and Israel’s 2006 defeat in Lebanon by the...
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The Report
The best historical fiction breathes life into inanimate history. Protagonists fight wars, influence events, or survive horrifying disasters such as the bomb shelter tragedy in London’s Bethnal Green on March 8, 1943. To commemorate...
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The Green Corn Rebellion
Like the “Okies” immortalized in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, the impoverished Oklahoma farmers in William Cunningham’s 1935 novel understand that unchecked capitalism leaves the rich as bloated as the flies feasting on the...
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Six Million Crucifixions
Two thousand years of Christian anti-Semitism provided the “nitroglycerin” for the “dynamite” of the Final Solution: “The Nazis simply had to light the match,” Gabriel Wilensky writes. His accessible first book details the...
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Those Who Dare
American Lieutenant John Randal’s experiences in the British Commandos’ Small Scale Raiding Forces during World War II provide readers with the opportunity to experience a daring moment in military history. Randal participates in...
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Making It Right
Imagining the auto paint business as a pizza chain that guarantees one hundred mini-slices of pepperoni per pizza but provides diners with as few as sixty-five, these two volumes—Technical Guide for auto industry professionals and a...
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The School of Possibilities
Deprived of his beloved skateboard and sent unwillingly to a school that “promises each year to offer a chance to a few desperate children,” Storm Steele enters sixth grade at the School of Possibilities, where he is tormented by a...
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Cecilia
A secret diary, written on papyrus scrolls to a beloved deceased sister, re-imagines the life of Cecilia, a young Roman martyred for being a secret Christian. In Catholic tradition, Cecilia is renowned for her beautiful voice and the...