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Publisher
Picador
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"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review. Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith,...
Author
Series
Burning chambers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 578 pages : map ; 25 cm
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"Circe France, 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need Minou's help if he is to stay alive."--
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel S. Kotov, a hero of the Revolution, who is spending the summer in the country with his young daughter (Mikhalkov's real-life daughter), his wife and her eccentric family. But when his wife's childhood love suddenly appears, the idyllic summer day takes a surprising turn. A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is also an indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland, cruelly destroyed...
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"In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio - a writer and photographer - are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. For photographer Clay Havens, the assignment is his last chance to reboot his flagging career. So when he and his journalist partner are warned away from the...
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
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In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which...
8) The prisoner
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution, was imprisoned by the new Communist regime for remaining loyal to his religious convictions.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
384 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
10) Blaise Pascal
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Evoking the terror and desperation of the seventeenth century, this film brings to life Blaise Pascal, the philosopher and mathematician who, amidst religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
11) Hooligan Sparrow
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ye Haiyan is labeled a trouble maker by the Chinese government. Someone who embarrasses the state, for example, with public protests involving the civil rights of sex workers. She travels to Hainan Province to protest a case in which sexual mistreatment of elementary-age school girls by their principal has gone unprosecuted.
12) Panique
Series
Criterion collection volume 955
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
After a woman is murdered in a Paris suburb, an eccentric and reclusive man finds himself framed for the murder.
13) Ruby Ridge
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the events of the 1992 standoff between government agents and the Weaver family on Ruby Ridge in Idaho.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Nils Melzer's compelling investigation shows how, through secrecy, impunity and, crucially, public indifference, unchecked power risks annihilating Western democracy and the rule of law. The case of Julian Assange could set a chilling precedent.
15) White shadow
Publisher
IndiePix
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of an African albino boy who faces persecution and lives on the run from people hunting albinos to sell their body parts to witch doctors.
16) There is no evil
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells four stories of Iranian men who face the difficult choice between following their conscience or risking everything they have.
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Les sectes fermées peuvent constituer un environnement o des enfants subissent des mauvais traitements qui sont justifiés par une idéologie religieuse. Les jeunes vivant dans ces communautés isolées doivent alors être protégés, mais intervenir en milieu sectaire est ardu et beaucoup plus complexe qu'on peut l'imaginer.
Quels sont les défis auxquels sont confrontés les professionnels des services sociaux quand ils ont à intervenir auprès...
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Each time the issue of racism is mentioned, tensions immediately run high, reason is thrown out the window, and emotional outbursts run rampant. Even though a lot of effort has been done to fight it, the devastating consequences continue to this day.
In this book, Dr. Tangumonkem challenges the status quo and presents a perspective that is both provocative and inspirational. Contrary to what you hear from those stoking the flames of racism and fermenting...
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The Xaverian Missionaries of the United Kingdom and the United States organized an international conference of dialogue and exchange between humanists, atheists, and religious believers. This journal is a compilation of the presentations and reflections that built bridges of understanding and challenge to both the atheists and the theists. It is hoped this journal will encourage others to come together in respectful dialogue, seeking the common ground...
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This book covers the history of humanity from the garden of Eden to present day and how humans find a way to ignore the rules of God and society which eventually leads to their demise either physically or spiritually. The author uses personal experience and events of the last half century combined with Biblical application to bring the reader to an awareness of why people act the way they do when it doesn't seem to make sense. Prophecy in the Scriptures...
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