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2) The siren
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to work as a Siren and lure strangers to their deaths after being rescued from drowning by the Ocean, Kahlen falls in love with a human and defies the rules of her service in order to follow her heart.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. In this account of contemporary slavery, journalist Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told--and heard. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, Skinner has produced a moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time. After spending four years infiltrating...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company...
7) La sirena
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Kahlen es una sirena, obligada a servir a Oceania atrayendo seres humanos a las acuosas tumbas con su voz, la cual es mortal para cualquier humano que la escuche. Akinli es humano. Un chico amable y guapo, él es todo lo que Kahlen jamas había soñado. Enamorarse pone a ambos en peligro... pero Kahlen no puede soportar mantenerse apartada. ¿Lo arriesgara todo para seguir los latidos de su corazón?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor
"As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering...
"As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The Industry of Souls is the story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen arrested for spying in the Soviet Union in the early 1950's. Eventually freed from the gulag in the 1970's, he finds he has no reason to return to the West-he has become Russian in everything but birth. Now, on the day of his 80th birthday, Russia has changed. Communism has evaporated. In the aftermath, information has come to light that Alex is still alive. This moving story...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise and fall of a powerful early twentieth-century German chemical conglomerate, documenting its connection to the Nazi party that resulted in its leaders' trials for murder and slave labor, and evaluating its wartime activities.
Author
Publisher
Basic
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
After the division of North and South Korea, Kang's family returned to North Korea from Japan, where his grandparents had emigrated in the 1930s. His grandfather had amassed a fortune and his grandmother became a committed Communist. They were fired with idealism and committed to building a new Korea, only to be removed without trial to a remote concentration camp, apparently because the grandfather was suspected of counter-revolutionary tendencies....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
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