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1) Resistance
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In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
2) Resistance
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Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. A compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.
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After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...
4) Resistance
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. Jesse Eisenberg stars in this compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.
5) Resistance
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Film Movement Exclusives
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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This World War II drama stars Michael Sheen (*Frost/Nixon, Masters of Sex*), and features two *Game of Thrones* stars, Iwan Rheon and Tom Wlaschiha. In 1944, the D-Day for the invasion of Normandy by the Allies has failed and Europe has not been released from the German forces. The men of an isolated Welsh village disappear and their wives believe that they have joined the resistance and soon German soldiers arrive at the village. The farmer Sarah...
6) Resistance
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THE BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN
Scientist Emma Miller was the first American infected in the Pandoravirus pandemic, which triggers violent rages and sociopathic homicide. No longer fettered by morality or emotion, she has attracted millions of followers, both infected and uninfected. But is she America's worst nightmare-or its only hope?
Emma's twin sister Isabel and brother Noah struggle against the threats posed by rampant infection, deadly civil...
7) Resistance
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A young couple, involved in the struggle against the military dictatorship in 1970s Argentina, must flee the country. The brutality and terror of the regime is closing in around them. Friends are being 'disappeared'. Their names are on a list. Time is running out. When they leave, they take with them their infant son, adopted after years of trying for a child without success. They build a new life in Brazil and things change radically. The family...
8) Resistance
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Bookouture
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2013
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English
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Finding refuge at a secret location in the south of France, Allie almost convinces herself she's safe - until Nathaniel's guards attack. Then she's on the run again, and forced to return to the one place she can truly call home: Cimmeria Academy. But when she arrives, she barely recognises it. Tensions are on a knife edge. Now most of the students have deserted the school, the teachers can't be trusted and guards are in charge. Worse, Nathaniel is...
9) Resistance
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Is resistance un-American? How far should resistance go? Courage and desperation have sparked instances of resistance since the dawn of civilization. Jesus, Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King resisted the nonviolent way. Here for the record is a remarkably full discussion of instances of twentieth-century resistance to inform, inspire, and possibly instruct by example. Here are the frightening, inspiring stories of the anti-Nazi, anti-Communist,...
10) Resistance
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Courtney Merrick has come home to Port Russell to lick her wounds and has no intention of falling in love ever again. When she runs into her childhood friend, and secret first love, Josh Cameron, as she's bailing her grandparents out of jail following their arrest at the old growth logging protests, all her careful plans and the comfortable life she's built since she returned home start to crumble.Josh Cameron, now an RCMP officer, has returned to...
11) Resistance
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Can you ever escape your history? During a road trip to France with her granddaughter, Dottie Tanner revisits the past and the dark days of WW2, when as a brave young woman she risked everything to fight for her country and freedom. Parachuting into occupied territory to work with the Resistance, young Dottie lived each day with homesickness, the fear of capture and the threat of the Nazi regime. She had no idea her life, and that of her comrades,...
12) Resistance
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No treatment. No cure. No hope
Once it seemed as though penicillin and other antibiotics had won humanity a lasting victory over harmful bacteria. But now hardier bugs, resistant to most common classes of antibiotics, are emerging—with potentially catastrophic consequences.
When Dr. Catalina Lopez of the Center for Disease Control first receives a report of a lethal new "superbug" immune to all known antibiotics, she realizes that she has a major...
13) Resistance
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"An inspiring epic of love, courage and loyalty, challenging a ruthless regime."The Phoenix Enigma; Book 1Would you risk everything for freedom?Resource wars have wrecked most things from refineries to satellites. Danger stalks an uneasy peace.It was the day Jac discovered how precarious her life had become.Her love of nature and steadfast loyalty to her remote Outlander community no longer weaves the illusion of safety she has believed for so long....
14) Resistance
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Buy a starship they said.
It'll be fun they said.
Ben Snyder bought a cargo ship, hired a crew of reformed criminals, and set off to make his riches. Unfortunately, nobody but the Galactic Republic will hire him, and he doesn't take government contracts. When he was offered a job to transport one person for more credits than he'd ever seen, it was an offer he should have refused.
Chased by a crazy ex-girlfriend, held hostage by a hostile passenger,...
15) Resistance
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In late December of 1941, two parachutists dropped into occupied Europe on a mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, an SS leader whom one contemporary called "the hidden pivot" of Nazi Germany.
Six months later, they succeeded.
This is the definitive telling of this oft-forgotten story-its fascinating background, its thrilling climax, and its tragic consequences.
16) Resistance
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Administrator Jane Murphy is exiled from the sequestered home habitat upon her lone child's majority. Her mate stays to mate with another. She becomes addicted to Quench, a carcinogenic depression medication, in a world without hope. While her aunt plays with destruction, her powerful mother plots with imprisoned teens to kidnap Jane, the Administrator who incarcerated them. Jane's escapes to the polluted Outside changes everything. Yet there's no...
17) Resistance
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About the book:
This book is about the 1971 indo pak war and conspiracy. And the beginning of a new era for East Pakistan which later known as bangladesh. The brutality and hinious behaviour by West pakistan to their another continent and the dedication and sacrifices done by Mukti bahini is the main plot of the story.. Arround 25 lakh people were killed and 5 lakhs woman were dead. World media and UN strictly refused to help Bangladesh and restricted...
18) Resistance
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Can Josh and Jana thwart an impending Armageddon?
The world they knew continues disintegrating around them, as Josh and Jana put their lives on the line for a crippled nation. They will discover old enemies and new friends in places they couldn't imagine, as they fight for what they believe. Will their unyielding faith, undying hope, and unending love be enough to help them triumph over all that is to come?
19) Resistance
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It's 1944 and D-Day has failed. The women of a remote British village awake to find their husbands gone to fight with the resistance. Soon after Nazi soldiers arrive to occupy the village and the women must boldly form their own resistance.
20) Resistance
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Three women. One mission. Enemies everywhere.
May 1944. When spy Elisabeth de Mornay, code name Cécile, notices a coded transmission from an agent in the field does not bear his usual signature, she suspects his cover has been blown-something that is happening with increasing frequency. With the situation in occupied France worsening and growing fears that the resistance has been compromised, Cécile is ordered behind enemy lines.
Having rendezvoused...
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