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Tales from Tripoli

An American Family's Odyssey at a Libyan Boys' School

By: Kirsten I. Russell

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Tales from Tripoli

An American Family's Odyssey at a Libyan Boys' School

By: Kirsten I. Russell

Kirsten I. Russell spent the happiest and perhaps the darkest years of her childhood in Tripoli, Libya. At the Vocational Agricultural Training Center for Libyans (VATC), a farm school where Kirsten lived with her family for six years during the 1950s, she grew closer to her parents as they created a home school for her and her older sister, but she felt estranged from them when their discipline turned punitive. During her last years in Libya, as her parents tried to restore family harmony, Kirsten and her siblings turned the VATC farm into the biggest, best playground they ever had.Years later, Kirsten learned another story of her family's years in Tripoli. Her father, Ray E. Russell, on a U.S. foreign service assignment to Libya, helped establish VATC as a joint Libyan-American project to train Libyan boys to become their newly independent nation's agricultural leaders. As he taught the students better farming methods, he watched poverty-stricken adolescents mature into professional young men. Meanwhile, he struggled with farming problems, language and cultural barriers, and faceless bureaucracies in both the U.S. and Libyan governments.Throughout the Russells' years at VATC, the family remained the only Americans among Middle Eastern faculty, staff, and students. The experience changed the students as well as the Russells, thrusting them all into a larger world outside their original homes. While Kirsten realizes the terrible cost of that experience to her family, she remembers her childhood home in Libya as a sunlit place where she and dozens of Libyan boys learned discipline, not through punishment, but through education.

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1492834785

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9781492834786

Mother's Boys

By: Daniel I. Russell

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Mother's Boys

By: Daniel I. Russell

What do you get when a group of psychopathic killers take on a family of mutated freaks? A whole lot of bloody good fun-and Daniel I. Russell delivers it in spades!" Greg Chapman, author of The Noctuary and The Last Night of October Natalie has strived to be different her whole life. She's dedicated her attitude, fashion, and very being to standing out from the crowd. After witnessing a brutal attack, Natalie becomes entangled in an escalating battle between a violent street gang and a strange tribe of sewer dwellers. Now she's about to learn just how much being different can mean. "Take one part Sid Vicious, one part H.P. Lovecraft and shake. Throw in a dash of the thrill kill thug life and you have Mother's Boys." David C. Hayes, author of Cannibal Fat Camp

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342

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1940250048

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9781940250045

The Collector Book One: Mana Leak

By: Daniel I. Russell

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The Collector Book One: Mana Leak

By: Daniel I. Russell

Penny Crescent. One street. Three houses. Three families. Countless disputes. Physics teacher Frank Harper educates with his fists behind closed doors. Jenny Dean can barely control her wayward teenage sons and Eleanor McQuire, the old mystic, is happy with her books and visiting grandson. For one night, the residents of Penny Crescent must put their differences aside. Death is coming. Some call him the man in black. Others call him the devil. He is The Collector, and the three families have something he wants... And he'll go to any length to get it.

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Crossroad Press

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0983160384

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9780983160380

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Tales from Tripoli

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