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epub |eng | 2017-05-31 | Author:Lloyd Fernando

9 WHEN THE RIOTS began Ellman remained in his flat eating out of tins. The columns of smoke smudging the sky beyond the trees seemed like a shroud round the ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-31 | Author:Goh Poh Seng

10 THROUGH GAPS BETWEEN the trees amongst which the village of Loc Son was located, Thanh could see patches of sky, horizontal rice fields and, violaceous in the distance, small ...

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epub |eng | | Author:Amy M. Le

18 A FORGOTTEN RAG DOLL (FEBRUARY 1978) The Lunar New Year is here. Today is February 2, 1978. It is the lucky year of the horse. To welcome good fortune ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Ratih Kumala [Kumala, Ratih]

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epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:John D. Greenwood [Greenwood, John]

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epub |eng | | Author:Clare Flynn [Flynn, Clare]

If we had believed that the men’s camp would be our final place of imprisonment until the day we hoped to be liberated, we were to be proved wrong. And ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-31 | Author:Lloyd Fernando

8 SEATED AMONG THE women and garbed like them in a long loose garment with a cowl, Sara shifted uneasily. Her unfamiliarity at being covered completely except for her face ...

epub |eng | 2022-05-07 | Author:Elles Lohuis [Elles Lohuis]

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epub |eng | 1991-12-15 | Author:Fiona Cheong

On those evenings while I was waiting for them to come home, I would go into the red room and stand at the windows, and sometimes, to pass the time, ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:John Triptych [Triptych, John]

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epub |eng | 1989-09-14 | Author:Raymond Williams [Raymond Williams]

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epub |eng | | Author:Sam Djang

The everlasting blue sky, The owner of the universe. The mighty sun, The origin of power and energy. Do not let disorder and disunion prevail. Do not let hypocrisy and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ann Bennett

17 Tom had ceased to register the passing of the hours. He no longer even knew whether it was day or night, or if he had survived another day in ...