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After the Korean War

An Intimate History

by Heonik Kwon ...

Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the ... Read more

$28.69 USD

Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the
... Read more
The Other Cold War

by Heonik Kwon ...

Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history ... Read more

$67.49 USD

In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history
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After the Massacre

Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

by Heonik Kwon ...

Series Book 14 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My—a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, massacre of unarmed civilians—assimilate the catastrophe of ... Read more

$31.49 USD

Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My—a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, massacre of unarmed civilians—assimilate the catastrophe of
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Awakening Infinity (Archivist 0)

by Meghan Ciana Doidge ...

Narrated by Savy Des-Etages ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Archivist
Unabridged

5 hours 53 min

The plan was to hop a train to Oslo, hang out at a coffee shop, and connect my personal archive, Infinity, to the Internet. Yes, completely disregarding the well-established fact that magic and technology didn’t mix. At all.I was also hoping to browse as many bookstores as I could before my younger brother’s patience ran out. Unfortunately, the five-year-old fledgling dragon was better known for ... Read more

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The plan was to hop a train to Oslo, hang out at a coffee shop, and connect my personal archive, Infinity, to the Internet. Yes, completely disregarding the well-established fact that magic and technology didn’t mix. At all.I was also hoping to browse as many bookstores as I could before my younger brother’s patience ran out. Unfortunately, the five-year-old fledgling dragon was better known for
... Read more
The Forbidden Iceland Series

(Books 1-5 in the international bestselling, twisty and utterly addictive Icelandic mystery series)

by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir ...

Translated by Victoria Cribb ...

Series Book 0 - The Forbidden Iceland Series
Get the FIRST SIX books in Eva Björg Ægisdóttir's award-winning, chilling and twisty Forbidden Iceland series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set.Detective Elma returns to her hometown of Akranes to join West Iceland CID and is drawn into dark, complex cases that shatter her quiet community. A number-one bestselling, multi-award-winning, atmospheric series of mysteries with complex investigations, icy ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Get the FIRST SIX books in Eva Björg Ægisdóttir's award-winning, chilling and twisty Forbidden Iceland series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set.Detective Elma returns to her hometown of Akranes to join West Iceland CID and is drawn into dark, complex cases that shatter her quiet community. A number-one bestselling, multi-award-winning, atmospheric series of mysteries with complex investigations, icy
... Read more
The Skelfs series

(Books 1-6 in the warmly funny, atmospheric, nail-bitingly tense, unforgettable series of Edinburgh mysteries)

by Doug Johnstone ...

Series Book 0 - The Skelfs
Get the FIRST SIX books in Doug Johnstone's addictive, darkly funny and unmissable The Skelfs series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set.When family patriarch Jim dies, three generations of Edinburgh women – widow Dorothy, daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah – take over the family funeral directors and PI businesses. From missing people and faked deaths to gangland vendettas and graveyard secrets, ... Read more

$1.99 USD

Get the FIRST SIX books in Doug Johnstone's addictive, darkly funny and unmissable The Skelfs series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set.When family patriarch Jim dies, three generations of Edinburgh women – widow Dorothy, daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah – take over the family funeral directors and PI businesses. From missing people and faked deaths to gangland vendettas and graveyard secrets,
... Read more
The Assassin's Blade

The Throne of Glass Prequel Novellas

by Sarah J. Maas ...

Series Book 0 - Throne of Glass
The twist of a knife. The birth of a legend.With this collection of prequel novellas, step into the world of the complete, #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas, author of the Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series.Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin's Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

The twist of a knife. The birth of a legend.With this collection of prequel novellas, step into the world of the complete, #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas, author of the Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series.Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin's Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Donovan Family Bundle (Love Me, Watch Me, Find Me)

by Margaret Watson ...

Series Book 0 - The Donovan Family
The first three books in the USA Today Bestselling romantic suspense series. Readers call it "impossible to put down." Susan Elizabeth Phillips, NYT Bestselling Author, says, “Margaret Watson, a star in the world of contemporary romance, grabs you on the opening page and keeps you reading to the happily ever after.”Love Me (Book 1)When Helen Brody needed her office repaired, she never expected ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The first three books in the USA Today Bestselling romantic suspense series. Readers call it "impossible to put down." Susan Elizabeth Phillips, NYT Bestselling Author, says, “Margaret Watson, a star in the world of contemporary romance, grabs you on the opening page and keeps you reading to the happily ever after.”Love Me (Book 1)When Helen Brody needed her office repaired, she never expected
... Read more
The Dragon Head of Hong Kong

The Ava Lee Prequel

by Ian Hamilton ...

Series Book 0 - An Ava Lee Novel
The prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series.Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer named Johnny Kung. Desperate, Lo persuades Ava to find and retrieve the monies owed. Ava goes to Hong Kong, where she plunges into the dangerous underground collection ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series.Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer named Johnny Kung. Desperate, Lo persuades Ava to find and retrieve the monies owed. Ava goes to Hong Kong, where she plunges into the dangerous underground collection
... Read more
Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition)

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose ... Read more

$12.99 USD

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose
... Read more
After Series Box Set (Books 0-3)

Four Post-Apocalyptic Thrillers

by Scott Nicholson ...

Series series After
**Look for the After Series Box Set (Books 4-6) on sale for $3.99 for a limited time!**"Always surprises and always entertains." - Jonathan Maberry, Patient ZeroA box set of four books in the bestselling AFTER post-apocalyptic thriller seriesThe After Series: Books 0-3When devastating solar storms wipe out the technological infrastructure and kill billions, the few survivors struggle to adapt. But ... Read more

$5.99 USD

**Look for the After Series Box Set (Books 4-6) on sale for $3.99 for a limited time!**"Always surprises and always entertains." - Jonathan Maberry, Patient ZeroA box set of four books in the bestselling AFTER post-apocalyptic thriller seriesThe After Series: Books 0-3When devastating solar storms wipe out the technological infrastructure and kill billions, the few survivors struggle to adapt. But
... Read more
Dust and Shadow

A Dystopian Romance Adventure

by Lindsey Pogue ...

Series Book 0 - Forgotten Lands
In a world where water is power, truth is the deadliest weapon.Centuries after the world crumbled, sandstorms scour the American West and survival depends on secrets. In the desert town of Sagebrush, Marshal Cunningham controls every drop of precious water—and every life that depends on it.Jo Mason has spent years watching the marshal’s cruelty destroy her family and community. When her chance for ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In a world where water is power, truth is the deadliest weapon.Centuries after the world crumbled, sandstorms scour the American West and survival depends on secrets. In the desert town of Sagebrush, Marshal Cunningham controls every drop of precious water—and every life that depends on it.Jo Mason has spent years watching the marshal’s cruelty destroy her family and community. When her chance for
... Read more

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