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When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and a good husband. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Green's involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles.

When Anna Broinowski learned that fracking had invaded downtown Sydney, she had a brilliant idea: she would seek guidance for a kryptonite-powerful, anti-fracking movie from the world's greatest propaganda factory - apart from Hollywood. After two years of trying, she was allowed to make her case in Pyongyang and was granted full permission to film. She worked closely with the leading lights of North Korean cinema, even playing an American in a military thriller.

"The 1000 essential words in Korean". The Korean language is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people. It is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea, with different standardized official forms used in each territory. How to learn a language differently? Today, language learning is revolutionizing : you do not have to go to traditional language classes anymore. Our learning method : a selection of hundreds of phrases and essential words. You listen to them, you repeat them, and you speak.

Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance; he can't even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the US government to deport him to South Korea, he's forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life.

A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In 10 captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world.

"A woman named Lola Montez was born in Ireland in 1821. She moved to Paris, France in the 1840s; she wanted to be a dancer, but it didn’t work out. So she addressed a man named Alexandre Dujarrier, who owned the newspaper company with the highest circulation then."

It's 2011. Bill Jedburgh is back in Hong Kong, now a world of 'one country, two systems’. When an old enemy catches up with him in Guangzhou, leaving behind a large sum of money and the location of a high profile target, Jedburgh finds himself entering a hall of mirrors in which he must choose between friends and foes in the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. Tracked by a deadly agent from the Ministry of State Security, the Reliable Man has to stay one step ahead of his pursuers in order to unravel a mysterious conspiracy which takes him into the most secretive ...

Nine-tailed fox spirit Sunny Cho has spent years running from her destiny, but fate is upon her. Inevitable or not, she doesn’t like it one bit. After a harrowing battle with a dark enemy from her past, Sunny has nowhere left to go but back to the Realm of Four Kingdoms. She grudgingly trains as a suhoshin cadet by day while learning to harness the Yeoiju’s magic by night…to disheartening results. At least throwing herself into training with Jihun and her suhoshin friends keeps her from running to Ethan—a love that can never be.

Mina is a professional pickpocket and thief for a huge South Korean conglomerate (chaebol) into which she was born. Having brought great shame to the chaebol as a teenager, she is obligated to work as a criminal for them. This chaebol is also a crime syndicate. She desperately wants out of her dangerous and depressing existence. She sees a ray of hope in the character of Sienna who is the complete opposite to her. She becomes obsessed with Sienna to the point she complicates things on a truly horrific scale.

LinguaBoost - Learn Conversational Korean is an audio course for beginners, as a refresher course, or for anyone who struggles with becoming fluent in Korean. The focus in this course is to practice speaking conversational Korean from the very first lesson. The course is divided into 30 lessons, six review lessons, and three listening comprehension lessons. Each lesson contains useful everyday phrases related to a specific topic.

Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Danny is a Chinese American teenager of North Korean descent whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast in his California high school. These three disparate lives converge when each of them travels to the region where China borders North Korea.

Learning is easy: just listen and follow along. This 6-hour Audiobook is designed for Absolute Beginners, with each lesson focusing on a Can Do statement such as Can Talk About Weather. By the end of each lesson, you'll be able to speak real Korean because you'll know the best phrases, vocabulary, and grammatical patterns for the corresponding Can Do statement.

Years later, the Korean War is a distant memory for the parents hosting their children for a Christmas party. But when an old photograph rekindles those memories, they're soon wrapped up in telling their children how they fell in love. As a nurse and a downed pilot, they'd found themselves on the run from the enemy - but the only thing that could snare them was true love.

A newly married Methodist minister, Larry Zellers, was serving as a missionary and teacher in a small South Korean town near the 38th parallel when he was captured by the North Koreans on June 25, 1950. Until his release in 1953, Zellers endured brutal conditions and inhumane treatment. Through his story, Zellers shows that, despite the opinion that POWs live only for themselves, many in the camps worked to help others and conducted themselves with honor.

He thought he had everything, but maybe he was just waiting for the right man. Matt Blackstone is content in his solitary life as the director of Camp Eagle Ridge. He has a beautiful tiny home in the forest, he works his dream job, and he’s surrounded by wonderful friends and family. And best of all; he and his friends built camp into something truly special. But when he meets a gorgeous, sassy college student named Casey Kim at a student job fair, Matt's perfect world gets flipped upside-down. Casey butts heads with Matt at every turn, insisting that Camp Eagle Ridge needs to make some ...

The fearsome Kim regime of North Korea, though not lasting for centuries, has become one of history's most controversial bloodlines, not without cause. This is why Kim Jong-Un, the baby-faced 30-something with the bizarre flat-top seated at the throne today, is an object of such fascination. The world watched as the keys to the sinking ship were passed down to the young Kim, hoping for the state's long-awaited metamorphosis, but as it turned out, this young man could be far more erratic and inflexible than those came before him.

There’s a strong effort from within our great nation to destroy our free American way of life that we have enjoyed since our nation ‘under God’ was formed. There is also evidence that the plan to destroy us grows more militantly open. Not only has our great nation been infiltrated by those whose plan is to destroy our nation, our heritage, and our culture; many from within are aiding in that effort by trying with all their might to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump. With their many blatant, ungodly, and inhuman attacks against the leader of our nation, they expose themselves as ...

In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities. What happens when advanced weapons are used in a close-range urban fight with an abundance of cover? Storming the City analyzes the performance of the US Army and US Marine Corps in urban combat in four major urban battles of the mid-20th century.

In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a 23-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next 20 years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns.

Throughout the world, oppressive regimes are being uprooted and replaced by budding democracies, but one exception remains: The People's Republic of North Korea. The Kim family has clung to power for three generations by silencing dissidents, ruling with an iron fist, and holding its neighbors hostage with threats of war. Under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, North Korea has come closer than ever to creating a viable nuclear arsenal, but widespread famine and growing resistance are weakening his regime's stability.