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61) Stars and bones
Author
Series
Continuance volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks...When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her...What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly. When the threat follows her back to the fleet and people start dying, she is tasked with seeking out a legendary recluse...
62) Genocide
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
57 pages : color illustrations, color photographs ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book looks at one person's experience as a victim of genocide and examines the facts and opinions on genocide from around the globe.
63) Genocide
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
112 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book examines examples of genocide from around the world and asks important questions surrounding this most chilling of human crimes: Why do ordinary people participate in such inhuman atrocities? How can communities stop genocides from occurring?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvi, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere, based on his observation of two thousand gacaca trials, offers a comprehensive assessment of what these courts set out to do, how they worked, what they achieved, what they did not achieve,...
67) Embers of war
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission. Meanwhile, light years away,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
A photographic essay with text on the six major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur. More than a chronicle of dates and death tolls, it gives a personal history of victims, perpetrators and consequences. With texts by Terry George, Dr. Richard Hovannisian, James Rosenthal, Chuck Sudetic and Ruth Messinger.
Author
Series
Embers of War novel volume Book 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series. The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge abroad an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race....
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
363 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary coming-of-age story and survival story of an Armenian teenager forced to live in a tribal culture among Kurdish peasants and Turkish beys. He rose from "infidel" servant to trusted secretary and escaped captivity, the only person in his adoptive tribe who could read and write.
72) Galaxy Quest
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The unemployed actors of the Galaxy Quest television series are reduced to convention appearances and store openings. But when a distressed interstellar cadre of benevolent aliens beam Jason Nesmith and his crew of has-beens onto their ship, they have the misguided hope that these 'historical documents' can defeat a genocidal space warlord.
Author
Series
Holocaust volume 6
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the fate of those Jews who survived annihilation by the Nazis: their further persecution, search for a homeland in Palestine, and hunt for war criminals. Also examines other cases of genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and elsewhere.
Author
Series
Holocaust volume 4
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between January 1942 and June 1943, blending historical narrative and primary sources.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.
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