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Author
Publisher
Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Toufah is the story of Toufah Jallow, a brilliant and inspiring young woman who, after she was forced to flee to Canada from her home in The Gambia, bravely bucked taboo and named herself as a survivor of a sexual assault by the country's dictator--launching an unprecedented protest movement. In 2015, Toufah Jallow was the eighteen-year-old daughter of the second wife in her Muslim father's polygamous household. Her mother, outwardly conforming,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love. Lourdes equates with devotion. New York means energy. London is forever trendy. Berlin is all about volatility. Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory...
3684) Las llaves de Raquel
Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Imaginemos que si en el mundo en el que nos toca vivir la suerte de nuestro destino fuera dictada al azar por una ruleta de la fortuna, cuyos premios y castigos consistieran en vivir una plácida y próspera vida o sumidos en la fría y gris miseria en un rincón del conurbano bonaerense argentino, siendo esta última opción la desventurada suerte del narrador quien relata sus singulares vivencias. “Las Llaves de Raquel” transporta al lector...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
" The Shi'a-Sunni conflict is one of the most significant outcomes arising from the Arab rebellions. Yet, there is little understanding of who is driving this tension and the underlying causes. By delving deeply into the historical factors leading up to the present-day conflict, The New Sectarianism sheds new light on how Shi'a and Sunni perceive one another after the Arab uprisings, how these perceptions have affected the Arab world, and why the...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War"--
"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An aborted raid targeting a major arms dealer. A hostage standoff at a bank that may not be what it seems. A plot to spring a former African dictator from prison. What is the threat that connects them all? And just who is the mysterious mastermind, The Starling?
3690) Farcry 4
Publisher
Ubisoft
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Traveling to the towering Himalayas to spread your mother's ashes across her native land, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of a ruthless dictator. Explore and survive this unfamiliar land, where unpredictable danger lurks around every corner."
3691) Murnau
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Deutsch
Description
When Count Oetsch is accused of murdering his brother, a family row begins which has unnerving results; sinister Count Orlok wreaks havoc as he arrives at his new residence in Wisburg, leaving corpses in his wake; a hotel doorman is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age; a benevolent dictator tries to preserve his tiny nation of Abacco by fending off creditors, wooing a wealthy Russian princess, and evading conspirators; Herr Orgon's wife...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Wild in the streets: When 15 year olds are given the right to vote they elect a rock star as president and take over the government enforcing mandatory retirement at age 30.
Gas-s-s-s: A deadly gas kills everyone over the age of 25 leaving the earth to a variety of young football fascists and demented dictators and utopia searching hippies.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, the aim is enlightenment, wonder and the pleasure of weirdness." --The Guardian Based on the widely popular blog that started as a side project in a basement, Retronaut reveals strange yet enlightening photographs from the past that somehow seem to depict...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Since the traumatic events of her first Season, Lady Mary Spencer's been wary of Society. Tired of feeling angry and bitter, at a seemingly innocuous garden party she lets her guard down with Luca Guaro. The charming Italian rogue also abhors the ton's dictates, and becomes a much-needed light in Mary's life. A liaison with Luca would be scandalous - so why is she tempted to head to the brink of ruin...?
3695) Ashes
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Belgium, July 1939: Simone Lyon is the daughter of Belgian national hero Major General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend, Hava Daniels, is the daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they are inseparable. But when, in the spring of 1940, Nazi planes and tanks begin bombing Brussels, Hava and Simone find themselves caught in the advancing onslaught and are forced to flee. The two teenage girls, will see their innocence...
3696) What a carve up!
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Britain, the Winshaw family--an integral part of the British Establishment--are becoming more wealthy and corrupt by the day. Newspaper columnist Hilary Winshaw gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry is turning hospitals into carparks; Roddy is selling art in return for sex; down on the farm, Dorothy's squealing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange, and Mark is selling arms to dictators....
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Terrified of failing #adulting? A wise, kind uncle started the conversation with, "This is the way it really works . . ." Unlocking the Possibilities is that conversation. From launching your adult life to finding a life partner (and acing college in between), you can focus on a clear path to achieve what you want"--
3699) Viva Maria
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Two Marias who are in the circus meet a socialist revolutionary and find themselves leading a revolution against a dictator, the church, and capitalists.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"La inolvidable historia real de cómo un simple empleado de limpieza que trabajaba duro para llevar comida a su casa, inventó Flamin' Hot Cheetos haciendo pruebas de sabor en secreto, rompiendo barreras y convirtiéndose en el primer ejecutivo latino de la compañía Frito-Lay. No se suponía que Richard Montañez tuviera grandes sueños y aspiraciones. Nacido en la pobreza, de padres migrantes y trabajadores agrícolas, dejó la escuela en el sexto...