One Left

Author : Kim Soom
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747676
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Left written by Kim Soom and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors of her life as a sex slave follow her back to Korea, where she lives in isolation gripped by the fear that her past will be discovered. Yet, when she learns that the last known comfort woman is dying, she decides to tell her there will still be “one left” after her passing, and embarks on a painful journey. One Left is a provocative, extensively researched novel constructed from the testimonies of dozens of comfort women. The first Korean novel devoted to this subject, it rekindled conversations about comfort women as well as the violent legacies of Japanese colonialism. This first-ever English translation recovers the overlooked and disavowed stories of Korea’s most marginalized women.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842843
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No One Left to Lie to written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests that President Clinton's largest legacy may be the weakening of the presidency and of the Democratic Party.

Author : Willo Davis Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689850832
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The One Left Behind written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mandy's life changes forever when her ten-year-old twin sister eats a hamburger tainted with E coli and dies.

Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Murder Room
ISBN 13 : 1471911799
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last One Left written by John D. MacDonald and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a yacht explodes in the Bahamas, apparently killing six people, Sam Boyleston, an attorney from Texas and the brother of one of the victims, is compelled to investigate the circumstances, as does Raoul Kelly, a newspaper reporter. After the disaster the yacht's burned captain was temporarily marooned on a small island, and soon it becomes apparent that one person is ruthlessly manipulating events. But for Boyleston and Kelly proving guilt appears impossible ... 'A major suspense novel' New York Times

Author : Karen Rose
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101586702
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No One Left to Tell written by Karen Rose and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose returns to the gritty world of Baltimore’s cops and prosecutors with a tale of danger and desire that will leave you breathless… A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden’s home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms—from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive. Five years ago, State’s Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars. But when Paige Holden shares the flash drive with him, its contents cast doubts on the conviction—and lead him and Paige into a world of blackmail, dark secrets, and a decades-long string of murders. An investigation they’ll survive only by trusting each other—and the truth.

Author : Michele Wages
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475822642
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No One Left Standing written by Michele Wages and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every public school student in the U.S. will experience various types of testing each year. For decades, the purpose and quality of such testing, the time it takes to administer and take the test and how the data is used are the topic of discussion among students, parents, educators and policymakers. Those supporting the importance of testing assume that more assessment improves student achievement and that the pros of testing outweigh their ‘perceptions’ of the additional costs. Those against excessive testing, believe that schools are sacrificing learning time in order to test or prepare for the test. They also believe that reduced learning time of non -tested subjects occurs and more time is given to those students that are performing right below the proficiency score or “bubble kids” instead of developing every student’s full potential. Testing in U.S. public schools is out of control. The stress and pressures for all involved have effects that are not even measureable in most instances. Is this really the best thing for our schools? Are there alternative measures that may serve our future in a better way? Will the rewrite of NCLB be enough?

Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512789267
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The One Left Behind written by Michael Morris and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charmaine, Mikes wife of forty-three years, lived with cancer for nearly eight years until two years ago. Then Jesus came back for her as he had promised. He took her to be where he is in his Fathers house where he had prepared a home for her. He lifted her up on eagles wings and took her to himself. The cancer is now dead, but Charmaine lives. This is Mike and Charmaines story. It is a story of hope from the one left behinda role that one day so many of us will be called upon to fill. It tells of Gods goodness and how he is even gooder than we thinkall the time. This they discovered through their circumstances, not despite them. Mike has personally known Jesus as Lord in his life for over twenty years and Lord of his life in more recent years. For longer than that, he has travelled the world in sales and manufacturing roles, having lived and worked extensively in China, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Israel. He has a daughter living in Canada with her husband and four children whom he visits two to three times per year. Originally from Manchester, Mike returned to live there recently after a fifty-year absence to be close to his brother, his wife, and two nieces. Mike is still working, building a business consulting to manufacturers.

Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307827089
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last One Left written by John D. MacDonald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder at sea. No survivors, no evidence, no loose ends. Only a boatload of cash left for the taking. In this explosive novel from the author of the Travis McGee series, nothing is certain—not with enough money at stake to change a dozen lives . . . or end them. Introduction by Dean Koontz Crissy Harkinson knows all about the cash that left the Gold Coast of Florida, headed for the Bahamas on board a pleasure boat. It came from Texas, unrecorded, intended as a bribe. Now it is Crissy’s last chance for the big score she’s been working toward for years, using her brains and her body. Then other people get involved, including a Texas lawyer too cool to commit himself to anything or anybody, a beautiful Cuban maid who might not be as silly as she seems, and a pitifully broken girl, adrift and unconscious in a tiny boat on the giant blue river of the Gulf Stream. Turns out these are shark-infested waters. And none of them are going down without a fight. Praise for John D. MacDonald and The Last One Left “As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.”—Dean Koontz “A stunning adventure.”—Chicago Tribune “John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place.”—Jonathan Kellerman

Author : Amy Waters Yarsinske
Publisher : NAL
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No One Left Behind written by Amy Waters Yarsinske and published by NAL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American pilot shot down over Iraq during the Gulf War, Lt. Cmdr. Scott Speicher was originally listed as killed in action. But evidence has surfaced indicating that not only might he have survived the crash, he may still be alive today...

Author : Riley Sager
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059318324X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only One Left written by Riley Sager and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." —New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.