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On the edge
\"When Maddie Diaz witnesses the murder of a homeless man by members of a gang, she tells the cops what she saw without thinking about the repercussions of snitching, but a mysterious guy named Lobo comes to her defense and is determined to take down the gang and protect her\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
This isMark Twain's first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. \"Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred, \" he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the \"200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication.
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Long time lost
\"Nick Miller and his team provide a unique and highly illegal service, relocating at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and lives. Nick excels at what he does for a reason: he himself has spent years living in the shadows under an assumed name. But when Nick steps in to prevent the attempted murder of Kate Sutherland, a witness in hiding on the Isle of Man, he triggers a chain of events with devastating consequences for everyone he protects. Nick and Kate share a common enemy in Connor Lane, a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if it means tearing Nick's entire network apart\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Notorious
\"When things get too hot in Miami, criminal lawyer Yoshi figures she'll be safe if she goes home to Norfolk, Virginia, for a little while. But the streets there are just as mean, and a sistah needs to keep her head to avoid getting popped by a drive-by. And when Yoshi witnesses the brutal murder of a snitch by a ruthless drug dealer, she knows she'll be the next one in the gangsta's sights. Out of time and abandoned by everyone but her cousin Carmen, Yoshi's goin' to have to learn to fight back if she wants to live another day ...\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Performing ‘the authoritative account’
Viewers have often looked upon the BBC’s science documentary strand, Horizon, as an authoritative source for scientific knowledge. Through interviews with the series’producers, this article examines the practices its producers perform to buttress their authority and generate the view that this show is itself a producer of knowledge, even while it is also televising and mediating science. Of particular note are references to science fiction to police boundaries between science and pseudoscience, and the use of original experimental trials to generate witnesses. These position Horizon as at least a node in the network of scientific knowledge production.
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The burial society : a novel
\"Catherine--no last name--doesn't bury the dead. She rescues the living from intolerable, abusive, dangerous lives. Her darknet-based witness protection program, the Burial Society, is the last hope for people who desperately need to disappear. Catherine takes care of them and provides new identities. She is effective and efficient--until she discovers that her slip-up may have compromised a client, maybe even killed her. Powerless to help without exposing her shadowy profession, Catherine makes a drastic move\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Unnatural Narrative and Holocaust Representation
Intersections between unnatural narratology and Holocaust Studies Unnatural narratology, the study of \"unnatural\" elements in a narrative that do not occur in the \"natural,\" or actual world, might seem an unexpected theoretical standpoint to begin an exploration of Holocaust representation. Before turning to an examination of the terms \"unnatural\" and \"natural\" in relationship to the Holocaust, I first present a brief definition of unnatural narrative: its main theorists, its varying definitions and manifestations, before clarifying which definition of the unnatural this analysis employs. Rather, Alber and Richardson's understanding of the unnatural differs in terms of the emphasis they place on a narrative's relationship (or lack thereof) to the actual world, as well as to their understanding of what comprises a narrative and what a narrative does (Alber and Richardson 3-4). In this analysis, my use of the unnatural encompasses both Alber and Richardson's definitions: the unnatural is that which is impossible within the storyworld, but also within the actual world, thereby demonstrating the antimimetic component of Richardson's definition.
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Red right hand
When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a Federal witness long thought dead is still alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to put him in the ground. FBI Special Agent Charlie Thompson is determined to protect him, but her hands are tied; the FBI's sole priority is catching the terrorists before they strike again. So Charlie calls the only person on the planet who can keep her witness safe: Michael Hendricks. Once a covert operative for the U.S. military, Hendricks makes a living hitting hitmen... or did, until the very organization hunting Charlie's witness caught wind and targeted the people he loves.
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MEMORIA, LITERATURA Y DERECHO: LA REPRESENTACIÓN DEL TESTIGO EN LA LITERATURA SOBRE VIOLACIONES DE DERECHOS HUMANOS EN CHILE
Both script plots are based in real cases, places and historical characters (although treated as fiction), related to Pinochet's dictatorship. The witness role turns out to be essential in both discourse fields: meanwhile in judicial procesess the witness is the subject of the testimony enunciation and, as such, an evidence element for criminal liabilities determination, in literature, the witness has important narrative as well as ethics implications, wich give such richness to the testimony, that it becomes an effective way of memory that not only narrates what happened, it closes to show it. La memoria entendida como fenómeno cultural complejo y los procesos de crisis histórica con resultado de violencia estatal del siglo XX y parte del XXI en Occidente, han intensificado la necesidad de recurrir a todo tipo de fuentes documentales y de medios para relacionarse con el pasado (Erll, 2005, pp. 1-5)1. Parte de dicha crisis se expresa en el surgimiento de la noción de memoria y su emergencia como método y \"palabra de código cultural\" (cultural code word), como la denomina uno de los autores citados en el presente texto (Stern, 2016).
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