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Esmirna en llamas
Par Homero Aridjis. 2013
"The narrative takes place in Smyrna, the birthplace of Nicias, a former Greek army captain, where he returns after a…
long period of combat. The sadness in the air is the product of the inevitable Greek defeat and the constant memories from before the war. However, even under the constant threat of the Turks, Nicias undertakes the search for love, embodied in the figure of Eurydice, the beloved young woman he abandoned when he enlisted in the army. It is this quest that restores harmony to the spirit and body of Nicias. The reader of Smyrna in Flames will discover that the brutal and bloodthirsty events typical of a wartime conflict are masterfully cushioned by Aridjis' poetic language." -- Translation provided by NLSThe capture (Griffin Task Force #03)
Par Julie Coulter Bellon. 2017
The day Julian buys an engagement ring for Zaya, terrorist Nazer al-Raimi abducts her. It takes nearly six months to…
find her, but Zaya has suffered during captivity. Though she's grateful to Julian for breaking her out, she wants nothing to do with him. Before he can show her how much he still loves her, Nazer finds them and vows revenge. Can Julian keep Zaya safe and still stop Nazer once and for all? LDS fiction. AdultNosotros caminamos en sueños
Par Patricio Pron. 2014
"A stupid war, an invisible enemy, confused governors, a battlefield, the Falkland Islands, and a narrator that unveils the truths…
and lies behind all this with freshness and irony. «Do not judge the war in terms of beauty. In fact, it is like people: it has to be beautiful inside, because it is too ugly on the outside». A bomb remains in mid air and resists falling. Exhausted and hungry soldiers look up and they wonder if all wars are like that. They do not know who the enemy is or where he is, but they keep walking in dreams, like sleepwalkers, fighting for a piece of land that does not belong to anyone, defending a country that floats on a subsoil of misery and corruption. There is nothing normal or predictable in |We Walk in Dreams|, the edited and extended version of the novel where Patricio Pron told «not what really happened or could have happened, but what happened indeed, although only in the childish imagination» of the author, who was six years old when the war between Argentina and Great Britain started. |We Walk in Dreams| talks about that confrontation, but the true theme of this comic novel is what happens when people kill on behalf of nationalism, what happens when common sense leaves room for cowardice and stupidity disguised as patriotism. Pron's view is a satire of all wars, a story simultaneously inhabited by the spirits of Samuel Beckett, César Aira, Martin Amis and Fogwill that only take the reader as prisoner." -- Provided by publisherWhere you come from
Par Saša Stanišić. 2021
In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later,…
the boy's father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Translated from the 2019 German edition. Strong language and some violence. 2021Bring out the dog: stories
Par Will Mackin. 2018
The eleven stories in Will Mackin's mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force…
in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kit. Whenever possible he incorporated those notes into his journals. Years later, he used those journals to write this book. He gives a realistic inside view on what it takes to fight the Taliban. UnratedCuando llora el cielo (Canción del mártir #02)
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"At the close of World War II, a shell-shocked soldier, Jan Jovic, was forced to inflict a game of life…
and death on a peaceful Bosnian community. In a few short hours, this young man was confronted by more love-and hate-than most experience in a lifetime. Years later, Jan has become a world-renowned writer with widespread influence in the United States, his past buried deep in his memory. Until, at the most inopportune time, the game Jan witnessed comes back to haunt him . . . and unwittingly leads him to a beautiful broken woman caught in an underworld of crime. Jan must now defeat an evil rarely seen. But there is a price. One that even this war-scarred soldier can't imagine." -- Amazon.comTiempos revueltos
Par Vionette G Negretti. 2010
"This bestseller in Puerto Rico is the complete story of the only revolution against the United States, told from the…
perspective of Comandante Elio Torresola, who led the rebel forces to victory during El Grito de Jayuya. In 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists stunned the world when they succeeded in destroying the international image of the United States as the 'Champion of Democracy' by declaring the Republic of Puerto Rico and extending the reach of the rebellion into the heartland of the United States through a direct attack on President Truman. |Times of Upheaval| is the product of a three-year investigation by a journalist who delved into personal and official documents, including the FBI's so-called Secret Files on Puerto Rico, newspapers, books and theses at the University of Puerto Rico, and interviews with witnesses to the events, as well as with the revolutionaries and their families." -- Translation provided by NLSAt night all blood is black: a novel
Par David Diop. 2020
"Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat"…
soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German's severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa's deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn't a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend? Peppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a man's descent into madness." -- Provided by publisherLetters from Vinnie
Par Maureen Stack Sappey. 1999
Fictionalized life account of sculptress Vinnie Ream as told through letters to her friend. In 1861 thirteen-year-old Vinnie moves to…
Washington, D.C. She later convinces President Lincoln to pose for her, resulting in the commission for the noted Capitol building statue. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1999Leeway cottage: A Novel
Par Beth Richardson Gutcheon. 2005
A beautiful written novel combining an American twentieth-century marriage and one of the most stirring stories of World War II.…
In April 1940, Danish pianist, Laurus Moss marries wealthy Sydney Brant. Laurus's family is playing an active role in Denmark's rescue of the country's Jews, while Sydney is in America knitting for the war effort after having a babyA feather on the water: a novel
Par Lindsay Jayne Ashford. 2022
"Just weeks after World War II ends, three women from different corners of the world arrive in Germany to run…
a Displaced Persons camp. They long to help rebuild shattered lives--including their own.... For Martha, going to Germany provides an opportunity to escape Brooklyn and a violent marriage. Arriving from England is orphaned Kitty. She hopes working at the camp will bring her closer to her parents, last seen before the war began. For Delphine, Paris has been a city of ghosts after her husband and son died in Dachau. Working at the camp is her chance to find meaning again by helping other victims of Hitler's regime. Charged with the care of more than two thousand camp residents, Martha, Delphine, and Kitty draw on each other's strength to endure and to give hope when all seems lost. Among these strangers and survivors, they might find the love and closure they need to heal their hearts and leave their troubled pasts behind." -- Provided by publisherA woman's war (Keep the home fires burning #02)
Par Simon Block. 2019
"In the darkest days they'll find their greatest strength.... As enemy planes continue to bombard the North West of England,…
the women of Great Paxford fight harder than ever to persevere. Pat thought she'd found true happiness, but as things change at home she finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about her husband. Laura's young life has been besieged by tragedy, yet a new future looms on the horizon if she can find the courage to reach for it. Teresa has completely reshaped her life to be the perfect wife. Dinner on the table at five o'clock sharpish, each inch of the house spick and span...but with the arrival of a new guest, her life is thrown completely off kilter. However, for Steph Farrow it's not the threat of what's to come, it's whether she can live with what she has done." -- Provided by publisherA place to call home
Par Lizzie Page. 2022
"Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1949. She would do anything to protect the innocent children in her care. But soon they…
could be sent into danger.... When Clara Newton's fiancé died during World War Two, she thought her life was over. But now she looks after orphans who, like her, lost everything during the war. Children like sweet little Peg who won't speak, and Joyce whose body was scarred by polio. Clara loves them all dearly, even though life as a housemother can be lonely--especially now that Ivor, a D-Day war hero with dark brown eyes who once helped with the children, has disappeared.... But then Clara receives some terrible news. The orphanage is going to be sold and the children sent far away. Joyce and Peg will be taken to a notorious home for disabled children. The others will be sent to Australia, where Clara fears they will be mistreated by unknown families. Any day now, the children could lose everything she worked so hard to provide.... With wealthy buyers lined up to purchase Shilling Grange and a ship already docked waiting to carry the children away, Clara is desperate. She must find loving new homes for them quickly, but time is running out.... Can she save the orphans before they lose everything all over again? And even if Ivor returns when she needs him the most, will it be too late?" -- Provided by publisherThe orphanage (Shilling Grange Children's Home #01)
Par Lizzie Page. 2021
"Clara Newton is the new Housemother of Shilling Grange Orphanage. Many of the children have been bombed out of their…
homes and left without families, their lives torn apart by the war, just like Clara's. Devastated by the loss of her fiancé, a brave American pilot, she is just looking for a place to start again. But the orphans are in desperate need of her help. Funds are short, children cry out in the night, and tearful Rita tells Clara terrible stories about the nuns who previously ran Shilling Grange. Clara cannot bear to see them suffer, but what does she know about how to look after eight little ones? Clara can't get anything right, and then she accidentally ruins Rita's only memento of her mother. Overwhelmed, she wonders if they'd be better off without her. But she's not completely alone. Living next door is Ivor: ex-Shilling Grange resident, war hero, and handyman with deep brown eyes. He doesn't trust Clara and she is fiercely independent, but he has a way with the children. And with his support and the help of other locals, Clara begins to find her way. As she heals from her grief and adjusts to her new life, Clara wonders if she has finally found her home and family among the orphans. Can she find the strength to fight for them when nobody else will? And dare she open her heart to love again?" -- Provided by publisherBetter times than these: a novel
Par Winston Groom. 1978
The fictionalized story of Bravo Company, Fourth Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, and their shattering experiences in the Vietnam War. The author…
was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1965 to 1967, and served in Vietnam. He later wrote "Forrest Gump". Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language and violenceBeyond the Ghetto gates: a novel
Par Michelle Cameron. 2020
"When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city's Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes…
a whirlwind of progressivism and brutal backlash as two very different cultures collide. Mirelle, a young Jewish maiden, must choose between her duty-an arranged marriage to a wealthy Jewish merchant-and her love for a dashing French Catholic soldier. Meanwhile, Francesca, a devout Catholic, must decide if she will honor her marriage vows to an abusive and murderous husband when he enmeshes their family in the theft of a miracle portrait of the Madonna. Set during the turbulent days of Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian campaign (1796-97), Beyond the Ghetto Gates is both a cautionary tale for our present moment, with its rising tide of anti-Semitism, and a story of hope-a reminder of a time in history when men and women of conflicting faiths were able to reconcile their prejudices in the face of a rapidly changing world." -- Provided by publisherThe lodestar (Heron Family #04)
Par Pamela Belle. 2017
"When Christopher Heron's favourite and much loved sister, Meg, marries Sir Robert Drakelon, against her family's wishes, Christie makes a…
vow to be there for her whenever she needs him. Meg's dreams of an idyllic married life are shattered almost immediately. Innocent and naïve, she accepts the ways of her husband and soon falls pregnant. In desperation, she reaches out to Christie, hoping he fulfils the vow he once made her. Despite his inexperience, Ambitious Christie has just secured a position in the services of the Duke of Gloucester, Richard Plantegenet. When Meg's cry for help reaches him, Christie is torn between keeping his vow or embarking upon a potentially victorious achievement over the Scots. Split between honouring his commitment to Meg and forfeiting the good will of the Duke, Christie pegs Meg's concerns down to her pregnancy and continues with the army. A mistake that will cost him a great deal.... Will Christie learn from his errors and find a way to put his ambitions to the side for once?" -- Provided by publisherA good death
Par Elizabeth Ironside. 2008
"It is 1944 and Theo Cazalle is returning to the family he left in Bonnemort, an estate deep in the…
French countryside, when he went off to fight with the Free French. Memories of Bonnemort have sustained him through four years of war-an image of a golden world to which he hoped, desperately, to return. But when at last he comes home, he finds that world in tatters. The house has been abandoned, a family servant has been shot, Theo's wife has been accused of collaborating, and a Nazi officer has been found dead-naked, with his throat slit-in front of Bonnemort's front gate. To save his sanity, Theo must restore order to Bonnemort, but first he must understand the disorder into which it has fallen. Is his wife a whore? A murderer? Or could there be another alternative?" -- Dust jacketSaga forastera: Libros 7-8 (Saga forastera #07, 08)
Par Diana Gabaldon. 2017
Books 7 and 8 in the Outlander Series. In An Echo in the Bone (DB 70073) from 2016, Jamie Fraser…
and his time-traveling wife Claire face suffering despite knowing the Revolution's outcome. In Written in My Own Heart's Blood (DB 79331) from 2017, Jamie, Claire and John must resolve the latter's marriage during the Revolutionary War. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2017War and peace (Penguin classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy. 1992