Go west and gowes!: Catatan seorang copywriter 3

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Be the one: Six true stories of teens overcoming hardship with hope

Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline coanchor, Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six young people who overcame impossible circumstances with extraordinary perseverance. Abuse. Bullying. War. Drug Addiction. Mental Illness. Violence. None of these should be realities for anyone, much less a young person. But for some it is the only re…

The hidden history of America at war: Untold tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

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9780316348355

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The crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria

Samar Yazbek was well-known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border. Here she testifies to the appalling reality that is Syria today. From the first innoce…

A strangeness in my mind

Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul--'the center of the world'--and is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a…

The lantern moon

Life is not easy for children in 1811. Annie Spears is a maid at Dinham house where Lucien Bonaparte is on parole. Her brother, William, makes silk top-hats for the mad hatter, while her little sister works as a glove-maker for the despicable Leonard Evans. They have not heard from their father since he was transported to Australia years ago. When a fire destroys the Spears home and William a…

Honour

Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood.

Daughter of the wind

Twelve-year-old Shabanu lives in the desert in Pakistan. She is already engaged but dreams of independence, and after tragedy strikes, she must choose which path to take.

Throwaway daughter

Grace was adopted by Canadian parents after being abandoned as a baby in China - Years later, as teenager, she realises that she needs to find out about her birth parents in China for her own peace of mind.

Persepolis

Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah…

Zeitoun

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared--arrested and accused o…

Beloved

Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her childre…

Parvana

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978-1-86508-694-1

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Harmony and hierarchy in a Javanese kampung

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0195826663

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Totto-chan's children: A good will journey to the children of the world = Ana…

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9789792259988

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Welcome to Samantha's world 1904: Growing up in America's new century

An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.

Jude the obscure

Hardy called "Jude the Obscure" "a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit". It is a tale of doomed love and unfulfilled promise that revolves around Jude Fawley, an ambitious and intelligent young man, his cousin Sue Bridehead and his academic mentor Phillotson.

Life in the twenties and thirties

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0276421272

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160 p. ; photos

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Journeys into the past

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Life in the Victorian Age

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0276421213

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160 p. ; photos

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Journey into the past

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A long way gone: Memoirs of a boy soldiers

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person accou…

Life in Nazi Germany: 1933-1945

Provides a focused look at key events in German history during 1933-1945 and enables students to gain a greater understanding of the period and evaluate the key issues.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her gr…

I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban

Lexile: 1000LrnWhen the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.rnOn Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. When she was shot in the head at point blank range while riding the bus home from school, few expected her to survive.rnInstead, Malala's miraculous recovery has tak…

I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban

Lexile: 1000LrnWhen the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.rnOn Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. When she was shot in the head at point blank range while riding the bus home from school, few expected her to survive.rnInstead, Malala's miraculous recovery has tak…

Turn left at the devil tree

Content Warning: Australian Indigenous people are warned that some individuals who are now deceased are named in this book.rnDerek Pugh has written an admirable book on two counts. It is a rattling good yarn and at the same time it is a fine teacher's handbook. From the moment he takes the momentous decision to accept a teaching position at Maningrida in remote Arnhem Land Australia Derek de…

company of planters: confessions of a colonial rubber planter in 1950s Malaya

John Dodd.