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Still mourning for her father who died in the war, Katie pits herself against her abusive stepfather to protect her depressed mother and her baby brother. Catastrophe follows catastrophe when influenza hits the community and Katie's sister is infected. When their stepfather plans to sell their farm, leaving them homeless, and penniless, it is up to Katie to save her family.
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#1 When he was assigned to the prison, Dr. Sabha was warned about the dangerous inmates. The leader of the sect was a religious scholar named Maqdisi, who was capable of infecting and twisting minds like a Muslim Rasputin.
#2 The doctor began seeing patients, and learned that the group's core consisted of about two dozen men who had been members of radical Islamic sects...
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the anarchist-inspired Common Ground Collective was created to fill the void. With the motto of "Solidarity Not Charity," they worked to create power from below-building autonomous projects, programs, and spaces of self-sufficiency like health clinics and neighborhood assemblies, while also supporting communities defending themselves from white militias and police brutality,...
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Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age"-spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s-when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Joby Warrick's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Black Flags includes: • Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter overviews • Profiles of the main characters • Detailed...
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[2021]
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First edition.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would cross "a red line," warranting an American military response....
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