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University of Arizona Press
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English
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Collection of stories heard from migrants crossing the Arizona desert to find jobs, join families, or start new lives. These are firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Samaritans, a humanitarian group seeking to provide these travelers with medical aid, water, and food.
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University of Missouri
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"The Spanish Civil War created a conflict for Americans who preferred that the United States remain uninvolved in foreign affairs. Despite the country's isolationist tendencies, opposition to the rise of fascism across Europe convinced many Americans that they had to act in support of the Spanish Republic. While much has been written about the war itself and its international volunteers, little attention has been paid to those who coordinated these...
92) Rogue
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2008.
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English
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Blake, a millionaire dot-com entrepreneur and Maxine a psychiatrist specializing in childhood trauma and adolescent suicide are divorced. Maxine is about to marry Dr. Charles West when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of Blake's palatial foreign homes and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants Maxine in his life again, as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives.
93) Three cups of tea: one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations-- one school at a time
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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
94) The sunflower
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Evans, bestselling author of "The Christmas Box" and "Perfect Day," returns with a heartwarming tale about two people who have to pick up the pieces after their lives derail in unexpected ways.
95) The last face
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A passionate and poignant story of two lovers brought together and brutally torn apart by violent conflict in a war-torn country.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Shortly after receiving the news that they will soon be reunited with their families back in the United States, a unit serving in Iraq is deployed on one last humanitarian mission. Their objective is to deliver medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. Upon arriving in the village, the unit is viciously ambushed and many lives are lost. Now, as the four surviving members of the battalion return home and attempt to readjust to civilian life, the...
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2009.
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Español
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An account of Greg Mortenson's campaign to build schools for girls in dangerous, remote, and anti-American Taliban territory in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This work is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man is changing the world.
La verdadera e increible historia de un hombre y su campana humanitaria en territorio taliban.
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"At 26, idealistic baker Mia West has her entire life planned out: a Craftsman cottage in Seattle, baking at The Butter Emporium, and the love of her life, her boyfriend Ethan, by her side. But when Ethan breaks up with her instead of proposing on their sixth dating anniversary (with the Tiffany blue box in his pocket), Mia's carefully planned future crumbles. Adrift and devastated, she determines to find new meaning in her life by helping those...