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1) Intregalde
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In a gripping tale of best intentions gone wrong, the story follows a trio of well-meaning aid workers from Bucharest on a food delivery mission to the rural hinterlands of the �Intregalde area of Transylvania. Guided off the beaten path by an elderly villager looking for a local sawmill, they find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar, dangerous place and facing the outer limits of their goodwill for each other and strangers. An inquiry into the...
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At 26, idealistic baker Mia West has her entire life planned out, a Craftsman cottage in Seattle, baking at The Butter Emporium, and the love of her life, her boyfriend Ethan, by her side. But when Ethan breaks up with her instead of proposing on their sixth dating anniversary (with the Tiffany blue box in his pocket), Mia's carefully planned future crumbles. Adrift and devastated, she determines to find new meaning in her life by helping those in...
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A talented surgeon leaves Seattle to provide medical aid in the Congo, and his experiences there change his view of the world. As he becomes increasingly frustrated a society's failure to provide humanitarian assistance to those who need it most, he contemplates an act of terrorism to shock everyone into listening.
4) Red birds
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When an American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb, he's rescued by one of the occupants.
6) Undaunted
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First love is the most dangerous game in this fast-paced conclusion to the Inhuman series, perfect for fans of Marie Lu, Veronica Roth, and Sarah J. Maas.
Lane McEvoy barely survived her first journey to the Feral Zone -- the forbidden, overgrown landscape east of the Mississippi River that was abandoned when a virus spread through the United States. But Lane has crossed the quarantine line, and she knows the truth. There are survivors in the zone...
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Bosnia. Rwanda. Kosovo. Sierra Leone. Pakistan. Just a few of the world’s humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, these disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of the work, one organization, Doctors Without Borders, has continuously intervened at these frontlines of overwhelming human need. Set in war-torn Congo and Liberia, Living...
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As a humanitarian, he helped aid workers heal orphaned children in Rwanda and lived in camps alongside Bosnian refugees. As a warrior, he excelled at the hardest military training in the world and teamed up with fellow SEALs to hunt al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. In The Warrior's Heart, an adaptation of his bestselling memoir, The Heart and the Fist, Eric Greitens brings his adventures to life, sharing stories of friendship, struggle, and hard-earned...
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