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  • Five Paths
    Sid Gardner
    Five Paths is a companion novel to a nonfiction book published in March 2016: The Future of the Fifth Child. Both books are about international child abuse and trafficking. In Five Paths, five college students graduate in 2000, inspired by a professor to work in the field of child protection. They adopt different paths in their work, choosing careers in politics, religious agen...
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  • The Future of the Fifth Child
    Sid Gardner
    The premise of this book is that 400 million children-one in five children alive-are abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent ch...
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    16,59 €

  • Recalling Amnesia
    Sid Gardner
    A young draftee arrives in Vietnam, is assigned to work in the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, and experiences the most intense years of the American presence in Vietnam. Forty years later, he arrives in Iraq, serving as a senior diplomat in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Inevitably, he reflects on what’s the same and what’s different about the two wars. Through relationships with two re...
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    11,71 €

  • Broken Bridges
    Sid Gardner
    Broken Bridge is about a baby, a drug dealer, and all the forces that swept them both toward a tragedy. More than half a million babies are born each year in the U.S. who were exposed to drugs or alcohol before they were born. This book tells the story of one of them, and what happens when the drug dealer who sold drugs to her mother has a change of heart.From a hospital in a ...
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    13,96 €

  • The Middle of Nowhere
    Sid Gardner
    The Middle of Nowhere is about a troubled 15-year-old girl, Lexie Crockett, who enters a residential treatment program somewhere in the Western United States. Based on personal experiences, the novel tells of the sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious adventures of the thousands of girls who live away from home in residential facilities. As events unfold, Lexie finds a bond with...
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    13,23 €

  • The Faults of the Owens Valley
    Sid Gardner
    The Faults of the Owens Valley is both a murder mystery and reflections on the history of the Owens Valley. A serial killer disrupts the lives of the major characters, but the landscape and the history of the Valley are also major forces, including the water wars, tensions among tribal communities and waves of later immigrants, and conflicts between the environment and economic...
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    15,31 €

  • Like a Single River
    Sid Gardner
    In the very near future, the combined forces of history and immigration have led to a crisis in relations between California and Mexico. A charismatic Mexican woman has gathered a vast group of one million Mexicans and is leading them on a non-violent march from deep in Mexico to the California border, in an attempt to reclaim Mexican land grant lands now part of California.The...
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    12,56 €