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Based on a true story, Alive Day is an inspiring, affirming tale about a troubled Marine and a big-hearted Labrador who shows him the power of love, loyalty, and truly living.
A Marine's "Alive Day" celebrates the survival after an almost certain death. It's a time of hope and joy. But Antwone Carver isn't celebrating. Home from war but not quite whole, Antwone's having trouble dealing with his new physical limitations.
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...3) Rebellion
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"Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in the war, is rewarded with a permit to support himself by playing a barrel organ in the streets. At first the simple-minded veteran is entirely satisfied with his lot, and he even finds a widow to marry. But then a qurrel on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, he is finally provoked into rejecting his blind...
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New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year
"A new masterpiece of American literature." -Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly
"A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner." -Chuck Palahniuk
Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for...
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"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
6) El regreso
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"Trevor Benson no tuvo intenciones de volver a New Bern, Carolina del Norte. Pero una terrible explosi̤n a las fueras del hospital en el que trabajaba como cirujano, le obliga a volver a casa desde Afganist̀n con graves heridas. La destartalada cabąa que hab̕a heredado de su abuelo parece el lugar ideal para recuperarse. Trevor, que cuida las amadas colmenas de abejas de su abuelo, no est̀ preparado para enamorarse de alguien del pueblo. Sin...
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Derek Harrington novels volume 1
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"Derek Harrington, retired Marine Force Recon and SERE instructor, is barely scraping by teaching the basics of wilderness survival. His fledgling bushcraft school is on the cusp of going out of business and expenses are piling up fast. His only true mission these days? To get his ailing father into a full care facility and to support his ex-wife and their son. When one of his students presents him with an opportunity too good to be true-$20,000 to...
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