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"A gripping study of how religiously motivated violence and militant movements end, from the perspectives of those most deeply involved. How does religious violence end? When God Stops Fighting probes for answers through case studies and personal interviews with militants associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq, the Sikh Khalistan movement in India's Punjab, and the Moro movement for a Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines. Mark Juergensmeyer...
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"Un ranchero quiere que sus cuatro hijos sean sacerdotes; ellos piensan distinto. Un hombre es humillado por su patrón; su hijo quisiera humillarlo más. Una madre renuncia a su carrera de cantante y se pregunta si valió la pena; su hija renuncia al mundo y vive a través de los reality shows. El hijo del presidente se rebela contra su padre, pero depende de su protección. Una mujer sufre el sadismo de su marido por amor. Una madre dolorosa...
2004) The pursuit of happiness
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A young man of privilege becomes dischanted with the "system" after pleading to manslaughter in the death of a woman he accidentally ran over. With only a week left in his prison sentence prison violence motivates him to escape.
2005) Call her Ganda
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When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case; an activist attorney, a transgender journalist, and Jennifer’s mother, galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Documentary at the **GLAAD Media Awards**. "*As...
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Midwife mysteries volume 4
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""Sam Thomas has created one of the most unique sleuths in modern mystery fiction."--The Plain Dealer. In this thrilling new mystery from the critically acclaimed author of The Witch Hunter's Tale, midwife Bridget Hodgson travels to London where she's forced into a new profession-as a spy. It's 1649. Three years have passed since midwife Bridget Hodgson and her deputy Martha Hawkins fled York for the safety of the English countryside. But when a mysterious...
2007) The girl who fell
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"When new boy in school, Alec, sweeps Zephyr off her feet, their passionate romance takes a dangerous and possessive turn when Alec begins manipulating Zephyr"--
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Pretty deadly volume 2
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Sarah Fields is dying and her children strike a bargain with the Immortals: give them one month more, until the moon is full again, to find their little brother so that he may see his mother one last time. But the boy is far, far away, in the trenches of France, stalked by the Reapers of Vengeance and Cruelty.
2009) Crazy love: a memoir
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Takes you inside the violent, devastating world of abusive love. Conor said love and rage danced intimately together in his psyche. Why didn't Leslie leave? Had she fallen into love-- or into a psychological trap? Recounts the author's marriage to a man she subsequently discovered had been brutally abused as a child, her terror in the face of his escalating attacks on her, and her efforts to escape the marriage when she realized that her husband might...
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In war torn 1980's El Salvador, Chava, an eleven-year-old boy, suddenly becomes the 'man of the house' in a time when the government's army is forcibly recruiting children for civil war. As his single mother fights to protect her children, their village becomes both playground and battlefield. This is about life, love, the hope of peace, and the ennobling power of the human spirit. Based on a true story.
2011) Hard to kill
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Mason Storm, a Los Angeles detective, has been shot by a corrupt California politician and his hitmen, and left to die. But Storm doesn't die, and is hidden away for seven years in a coma-care unit. When he awakens he determines to get revenge, and enlists the help of a nurse to assist him as he builds up his strength for his confrontation with his enemies.
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An idealistic policewoman arrives in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to investigate the murder of a young woman found in the desert. The film incorporates the reality of the massive number of unsolved crimes against women, including kidnapping, rape and murder, in the border town located in the backyard of the United States.
2015) Crimes of the heart
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"Based on the acclaimed play, three eccentric Southern sisters come together for the most unlikely reunion in this tale of family loyalty and the ultimate sibling rivalry. The Magrath girls must confront a stormy past and ultimately find that it is their differences that will bring them together"--Container.
2016) Canoa
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"One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries. Director Felipe Cazals adopts a gritty...
2019) A path appears
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"A unique and essential 4.5-hour documentary series addressing the roots of gender inequality, the devastating impact of poverty and the ripple effects that follow, including: sex trafficking, teen-pregnancy, gender-based violence, child slavery and the effective solutions being forged to combat them. An edge-of-your-seat dramatic encounter which travels across the United States and to Haiti, Colombia and Kenya."--Container.
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