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When you get a friend in trouble... You're responsible to get him out. Whatever the cost!
Air Force crew chief Connor Pierce wants to help his lonely assistant get comfortable around women. But when the stripper he lets loose on his romantically challenged friend is brutally murdered at a strip club outside Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, Connor must solve this 1990s mystery to keep him out of prison...
Newly minted Staff Sergeant Pierce is no...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up on Kadena Air Base with her no-nonsense sergeant mother, Luz suffers suicidal thoughts after her sister's death and investigates the story of her Okinawan grandmother, who also confronted her mortality after the World War II deaths of family members.
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English
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This is the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War II's most highly decorated submarines “Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em” is the first book to recount the tragic and mysterious loss of the World War II submarine USS Gudgeon. In April 1944, the highly decorated submarine USS Gudgeon slipped beneath the waves in one of the most treacherous patrol areas in the most dangerous military service during World War II. Neither the Gudgeon...
Publisher
Empty Mind Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (65 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
They are a model of socialism. Living as a collective and as equals in a family-based commune. They are the Hakka from the mountainous region of South East China. Their home is a fortress-like structure called the Tulou, where as many as five hundred family members share an ancient way of life. “We all live in the same Tulou and we have the same ancestors” says one 82 year old resident of one of the most beautiful of the Tulous called Tianluokeng...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Hardcover edition
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship,...
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