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Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry. Allah Tantou is the first African film to confront the immense personal and political costs of the widespread human rights abuses on the continent. It follows filmmaker David Achkar's search for his father, his father's search for himself inside a Guinean prison and Africa's search for a new...
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'With the open sesame of language ready to hand, he suddenly began to find himself really penetrating a foreign country' In Mountolive the third volume in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism of a world plunging towards war....
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"The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border -- unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and -- best of all as far as Elliot is concerned -- mermaids. "What's your name?" "Serene." "Serena?" Elliot asked. "Serene," said Serene. "My full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle." Elliot's...
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"Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules--all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath...
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Richard Holbrooke was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. He believed in a strong, generous foreign policy, and from his early days as an advisor in Vietnam, to he efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, he believed that the US should take the lead on the global stage. He was frustrated in his efforts to rise to the highest level in government by those...
11) The hostage
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Delta Force Major Charley Castillo is asked by the President to go to Buenos Aires to rescue the wife of the deputy chief who was kidnapped by terrorists after witnessing her husband's murder.
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"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
13) Munich
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September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
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The first woman U.S. Secretary of State tells stories surrounding her pin collection, describing the pin not just as a piece of jewelry, but a badge of individuality, a vibrant vehicle for telling a story, and even a diplomatic tool for delivering messages to world leaders, politicians, and the public.
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America 1959. Mary van der Linden, wife of a British diplomat, leads a carefree life amoung Washington's party-loving community. But the Eisenhower era is drawing to a close, and the battle for the White House between senators John Kennedy and Richard Nixon sets a new tone across the country. Against this backdrop, Mary's dramatic involvement with journalist Frank Renzo compels her to confront the cold war realities that lurk behind the blithe facade...
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