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Publisher:
Crown
Pub. Date:
2026
Language:
English
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"Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical, ancient land and ended family lines. Despite the losses they have suffered, the resolve of their friendship has taught them that strength and unity are more powerful than the violence of separation. Throughout their travels, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much pain and suffering...
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Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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If you think world peace is a naive concept, Paul K. Chappell's very existence will give you pause. It's not enough to say that Chappell - a WestPoint graduate and Iraq War veteran - is a soldier turned peace leader. Experiencing a traumatic upbringing and growing up mixed race in Alabama, he's a young man forged by violence, rage, and racism into a living weapon for peace. By unlocking the mysteries of human nature, he shows how the muscles of hope,...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
Description:
Do You: Harbor guilt or grudges from past relationships? Feel plagued by thoughts of regret? Think "Oh, no, not again!" when personal problems arise? Wonder why life hasn't turned out the way you wanted? Feel anxious or depressed about your future? Seem to be less happy as time goes by? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, this book can help you make peace with your past -- here and now. The past lives on in everything we think, feel,...
Publisher:
Peace Knowledge Press
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
This book was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association and the 2023 revision of the UNESCO Recommendation on Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace, and Education related to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, both 1974 landmark events in the field. Over the past 50 years the field has evolved substantially, and this new volume provides historical...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Rather have a root canal than think about insurance? Join the club. But thanks to the quick and entertaining new book, Insuring Your Peace of Mind, consumers can regain control of their financial lives in a single afternoon. Even savvy people often throw up their hands in befuddlement when it comes to insurance, relying on cute commercials and questionable sales tactics to help make some of the most important decisions of their lives. Insuring Your...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of science fiction writers. In a world where these complex technologies clash with escalating international tensions, what can we do to decrease the chances of war? In Future Peace, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Imagine having total confidence in your financial future and never having to think again about where money is going to come from to fund your dreams. "Secure Your Retirement: Achieving Peace of Mind for Your Financial Future" was written to help you gain peace of mind while planning for and living through retirement. Even when you've worked hard your whole life and have been financially disciplined and responsible, it can be a challenge to convert...
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Publisher:
Valerie Walsh
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Her mother's suicide. Thyroid by a preventive mastectomy. Alcoholism. Depression. Valerie Walsh was Shattered to the Core. Within just a few years, she experienced such extraordinary loss, pain, and trauma that it seems miraculous she was able to make it to the other side. How did she make peace with her past and reclaim her future? In her candid memoir, Valerie reveals what it took for her to overcome her personal hardships and inner demons to live...
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Publisher:
Easton Studio Press, LLC
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
Building on the powerful argument for peace laid out in his first book, Will War Ever End, Paul K. Chappell now explains in detail how together we can end the wars between countries, our ongoing war with nature, and the suffering in our hearts.
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
I am an African American woman, a veteran of the Washington State Patrol, and the Executive Director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. I probably look very good on paper. The irony is that for the same reasons I look good on paper I am discounted in real life. No one in the Washington State Patrol believed that Monica Alexander (née Hunter), an African American single mother, would be a state trooper for long. She proved...
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Publisher:
Highbridge Company
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Is it possible that you are missing out on your best life because of the pain of your past? The weight of unresolved trauma doesn't just affect your personal life-it silently shapes your decisions, your leadership, and your success. Even as conversations about "trauma" move into the mainstream, the business world has largely ignored its impact-until now. In Your Way Back to Happy, Janelle Bruland shares her deeply personal story of overcoming undiagnosed...
13. The great alone
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, Alaska. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
14. The time machine
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English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
In this hugely influential groundbreaking work of science fiction, a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The Time Traveller finds imself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear--the...
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Series:
Wings of fire volume 6
Publisher:
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Peace has come to Pyrrhia... for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read minds,...
16. The first battle
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Series:
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A latest entry in the prequel story arc reveals new details about the history of the warrior cats and follows the efforts of Clear Sky to violently divide the territories of the forest cats in spite of Gray Wing's efforts to promote peace.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down....
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Series:
Unwind trilogy volume 5
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
A collection of stories about Connor, Risa, and Lev after they have destroyed the Proactive Citizenry and are, apparently, free to live in a peaceful future.
19. Tanna
Publisher:
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
Undetermined
Description:
In one of the last traditional tribes in the South Pacific, a young girl falls in love with her chief 's grandson. But when war with their enemies escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, but are pursued by warriors of both tribes. With their lives on the line, the star-crossed lovers must choose between their hearts and the peaceful future of the tribe.
20. Saint maybe
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Language:
English
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In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.
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