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1) Santa Olivia
Author
Series
Santa Olivia volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"A SF/fantasy novel set in the near future and featuring a young woman with special genetically engineered 'wolf-like' powers"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Using rare archival footage and remarkable interviews with witnesses, Pilger's film discloses America's secret history in the region, the destruction wrought by the equivalent of one Hiroshima attack every day for twelve years, and the top secret project that made guinea pigs of the population of the Marshall Islands.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon known as the Redoubt, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge is escalating into civil war. Against this backdrop, twelve stories of ordinary lives explore the loneliness, fragility, and heartbreak inherent to love. Families feel the far-reaching shockwaves of displacement and division. A mother makes a hard choice for her sons when their father goes to lead a standoff with the federal...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother--but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Based on diaries and e-mail correspondence that Amiry kept to maintain her sanity from 1981 to 2004, the book evokes, through a series of irreverent, darkly funny vignettes, the frustrations, cabin fever, and downright misery of daily life in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Miki Kratsman (born 1959) has worked as a photojournalist in the Palestinian Occupied Territories for over three decades. Originally created in the context of daily news, his photographs look at both "wanted men"--Individuals sought by the Israeli state--and the everyman and everywoman on the street who, by virtue of being Palestinian in a particular time and place, can be seen as a "suspect." Kratsman has also provoked long-term interaction around...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In West Bank cities and small villages alike, men and women, young and old--a group of unforgettable characters--share their lives with Ehrenreich and make their own case for resistance and resilience in the face of life under occupation. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating...