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Daybreak
Matt Gallagher
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A disillusioned American veteran volunteers for the war in Ukraine
to reconnect with a woman from his past in this timely and powerful
novel from a "vital" (The Washington Post) voice in contemporary
literature. Thirty-three-year-old Luke "Pax" Paxton has been out of
the US military for almost a decade, adrift in an America he no
longer understands, haunted by a mistake made in an unforgiving
moment of combat. When an old army friend suggests they travel to
Ukraine to help fight against the Russian invasion, he agrees, and
together they cross an ocean to Lviv, the City of Lions. But Pax
isn't merely going out of the goodness of his heart. He carries
with him the address of a former love, a Ukrainian woman named
Svitlana whom he had known as a young soldier and has been unable
to forget. His feverish journey through Lviv takes him down winding
and missile-cratered streets as he forms surprising connections
with everyone from humanitarian volunteers to displaced Ukrainians
and ordinary citizens trying to survive. And when Pax gets the
chance to save someone dear to Svitlana, he just might be able to
correct the wrongs that have wracked him with guilt for so many
years. Inspired by the author's time in Ukraine, Daybreak is a
deeply moving love story, as well as an exploration of the struggle
to find meaning and redemption in the midst of war.
Practical Oracle Database Appliance is a hands-on book taking you
through the components and implementation of the Oracle Database
Appliance. Learn about architecture, installation, configuration,
and reconfiguration. Install and configure the Oracle Database
Appliance with confidence. Make the right choices between the
various configurations in order to realize your performance
requirements. Manage and monitor the appliance to meet business
requirements. Protect your data through proper backup and recovery
procedures. Oracle Database is one of the most relied-up databases
in industry. For many years Oracle Database was a software product
that had to be installed and configured at no small expense. The
Oracle Database Appliance makes Oracle Database into a
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and turn it on. That's it. You have a running database server. This
book takes you through that beginning point and beyond, helping you
to realize in your own organization the ease of deployment and
management represented by the appliance. Covers the Oracle Database
Appliance from architecture through configuration. Provides a
technical resource for system- and database administrators.
Examines practical use cases for the Oracle Database Appliance.
Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil
Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in FictionThese stories
aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are
realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable.
Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But
this collection offers voices- powerful voices, telling the kind of
truth that only fiction can offer.What makes the collection so
remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who
were there, or waited for them at home. The anthology, which
features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann,
includes the best voices of the wars' generation: award-winning
author Phil Klay's Redeployment" Brian Turner, whose poem Hurt
Locker" was the movie's inspiration Colby Buzzell, whose book My
War resonates with countless veterans Siobhan Fallon, whose book
You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the
spouses left behind Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the
hilarity and horror of the modern military experience and ten
others.
Based on Captain Matt Gallagher's controversial and popular blog,
which the U.S. Army shut down in June 2008, Kaboom is a sardonic,
unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir. "At turns hilarious,
maddening and terrifying," providing "raw and insightful snapshots
of conflict" ( Washington Post ), Kaboom resonates with stoical
detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still
trying to understand.
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