Book type: non-fiction (1986)


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Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Description:
In October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on a flight from Uruguay to Chile when their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously, many of the passengers survived but Nando's mother and sister died and he was unconscious for three days. Stranded more than 11,000 feet up in the wilderness of the Andes, the survivors soon heard that the search for them had been called off - and realise the only food for miles around was the bodies of their dead friends ... In a last desperate bid for safety, Nando and a teammate set off in search of help. They climbed 17,000-foot-high mou... continue

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Miracles by C. S. Lewis EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
Cites varied cases which substantiate belief in the supernatural acts recorded in the Bible.

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Miraculée : Une découverte de Dieu au coeur du génocide rwandais by Immaculée Ilibagiza FR

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Rwanda flag Rwanda
Description:
En avril 1994 commence le génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda. Le 7 avril, Immaculée Ilibagiza quitte la maison pour se réfugier chez le pasteur du village mais ne reverra jamais ses parents et son frère adorés. Le nom d'Immaculée figure sur une liste de morts. Des centaines de Hutus ont une priorité : la trouver et la tuer. Cachée dans une minuscule salle de bains durant quatre-vingt-onze jours, elle prie sans relâche et remet sa vie et celle de ses sept compagnes entre les mains de dieu. Dans ce témoignage bouleversant, les miracles qui jalonnent le parcours de la jeune femme frappent autant que l... continue

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Mirror to the Church : Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda by Emmanuel Katongole, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Uganda flag Uganda
Description:
In 1994, the most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. The tragedy was in Rwanda, but what happened was a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Yet by looking at what happened and why, we can find hope for the global body of Christ.

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Mirrors : Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
The unofficial history of the world seen--and mirrored to us--through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten, over 5000 years of history.

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Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers EN

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The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is at a crossroads. Traditional African/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous difficulty and possibility. In contemporary times, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the phrase "intersectionality" to explain the unique position of Black... continue

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Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka : The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter by Florence Frisbie EN

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Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka (2nd edition) by Florence (Johnny) Frisbie is the first book written by a Polynesian woman. It tells the amazing story of a young girl growing up on a remote island in the Cook Islands group. Written when Johnny was between the ages of 12 and 14, and published in 1948 when she was 15, Johnny likens her travels through South Pacific islands to those of Ulysses in the Odyssey. Through Johnny's fresh and unspoiled eyes, we read of a Garden-of-Eden existence on a remote atoll, where the land and the sea provide all that is necessary for life. The sea brings danger as we... continue

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Miss World 1970 : How I Entered a Pageant and Wound Up Making History by Jennifer Hosten EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Jennifer Hosten went to the 1970 Miss World pageant on a lark, representing the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, and came home with the crown and a place in history. What was supposed to be a light-hearted affair, with a parade of the world's most beautiful women vying for the attention of the judges and comedian/host Bob Hope, turned out to be the most controversial, politically-charged, and consequential pageant ever. Women's liberation activists blew up a BBC broadcast truck and stormed London's Royal Albert Hall in an attempt to sabotage the show, which ... continue

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Missing in Action and Presumed Dead : Poems by Rashidah Ismaili EN

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Country: Africa / Benin flag Benin
Description:
Poems that tell the pain of being enslaved and displaced

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Missing, Presumed Dead : The Double Murder Case That Shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families. Such women are hardly ever among the ranks of the missing. They were not hitchhikers, or associates of drug dealers, or unhappy with their family relationships, or suffering from mental health issues. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan came from different parts of Sydney, mixed in quite different circles, and led completely differ... continue