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Another Kind of Loving by SylvieNickels
Another Kind of Loving
SylvieNickels
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  • Votes 1
  • Parts 5
This book is the first in a trilogy on the effects of 20th century wars on the children and grandchildren of participants. In this case the background is the break-up of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Subsequent books focus on the two World Wars. When journalist Mike and his wife Sara decide to foster a 12-year-old Bosnian refugee, they have no premonition of the far-reaching consequences. Jasminka evolves from a traumatised child of the bitter ethnic conflicts of besieged Sarajevo into Minkie, an English schoolgirl-with-a-difference in a village in Middle England. She also becomes the daughter Mike has always wanted and Sara cannot have, and one of the excuses for Sara to resume an old affair. Mike’s assignments continue to take him to Bosnia and Serbia and he finds himself emotionally drawn into the conflict for reasons he could never have imagined and which have a profound effect on the deepening rift at home. As shifting international tensions are about to change the world forever, Minkie returns to Sarajevo to seek her roots and decide her future, just as Mike and Sara must decide on theirs in the early days of September 2001.
painted white, sarajevo by crowkiiing
painted white, sarajevo
crowkiiing
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  • Votes 40
  • Parts 22
Elias refuses to let another city die. Every city is a tale of blood, sweat, tears, work, hope, dreams, and people. People who created this world, with soil-caked fingers and soot-stained faces, or with pristine dresses and shirts. Every city has a story. He's not going to let that disappear.
Marin's Fire by rhymeswithfry
Marin's Fire
rhymeswithfry
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  • Parts 36
After being accused of fathering a child that couldn't possibly be his, Marin must choose between revealing a deep secret to prove his innocence, or accepting heavy consequences for breaking his vows of celibacy.
Calm Down by M_Rainberry
Calm Down
M_Rainberry
  • Reads 206
  • Votes 43
  • Parts 3
This is my confession. As dark as I am, I will always, Find enough light, To adore you to pieces. With all of my pieces. -- Johnny Nguyen. ◍ ◍ ◍ ◍ This Book is a Compilation of all the Poems, Sonnets, Quotes and Literary texts, that managed to capture my soul in one go, but most importantly helped me to.... CALM DOWN.
Shadows of War by david-turner
Shadows of War
david-turner
  • Reads 41
  • Votes 4
  • Parts 4
In 1993, I joined an aid mission to the former country of Yugoslavia to deliver much-needed food and medical supplies. The trip should have lasted just five days... It soon became a much longer journey into the unknown, where I met desperate people on all sides of the Balkan conflict, saw the horrific devastation caused by war, and saw entire villages flattened by missiles.