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This compelling novella, Praying Angels, is full of artful deceptions, unforeseen connections, and heartbreaking abdications. This is literary fiction inspired by true events. The troubled waters of an Irish Catholic childhood propel protagonist, Joseph Dempsey, into a life of successful abundance, but did it prepare him for a severely challenging adult life?
A sorely taxed Joseph Dempsey becomes a man on a mission. While Joseph struggles not to...
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The exciting early days of the railways were tempered with danger, as the Victorian concept of health and safety was rather different to ours. Going 'into the dark' was a frightening experience and tunneling under the ground and under water was a death-defying activity in nineteenth-century Britain — many workers and travelers paid the ultimate price. Flooding, collapses and explosions, as well as malodorous air and illness, were just some of the...
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#1 Nam Thuan, the Communist party secretary of Phu My Hung village, was tasked with delaying any American advance on the village by luring the enemy into a fight. He would destroy them, if possible, but if not, his diversionary battle would allow ample time for the village to be evacuated and the arms and guerrillas to be hidden.
#2 Thuan was about to be awarded another...
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Nazi Mega Weapons volume 5
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Imperial Japan, desperate to stop the rampant US forces before they reach mainland Japan build a network of defensive lines, bunkers and fortifications across the island of Okinawa, turning it into a deadly killing machine.
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With over 60 per cent of the world's population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet — which keep the cities above moving — are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work.
Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a 'skyline of the underground' through specially...
8) The tunnels: escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
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[2016]
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"A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death...
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When Tina S. meets April, a teenage runaway, she thinks she's found her best friend. She leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join April in the tunnels of Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and drug addicted. Soon she's bingeing on crack-just like April-and stealing, scamming and panhandling to support her habit and to survive on the streets.
In her own words, she describes her descent into crack addiction, being raped in the tunnels,...
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Pushkin Children's
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[2019]
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On her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play in freeing the inhabitants...
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