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83) Night work
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"Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castro's successful revolution against the Batista dictatorship. After delivering the man to La Cabana prison and rescuing Dylan McCue, a Russian KGB agent and his now-married former lover, from her scheduled execution, Cassidy returns to New York and retreats into the comforts of alcohol and sex. The arrival...
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Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.
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A "dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world"--
91) Cambodia
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Explores the history of the genocide in Cambodia, and discusses controversies surrounding it. Features testimonials from individuals who experienced these events firsthand, a glossary, resources, and organizations to contact.
94) Cambodia
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Explores the history of the genocide in Cambodia, and discusses controversies surrounding it. Features testimonials from individuals who experienced these events firsthand, a glossary, resources, and organizations to contact.
95) The Vietnam War
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The Vietnam War tells real stories in graphic novel format of the military conflicts arising from this tense war of ideologies.
98) The Cold War
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Examines the events that led up to the Cold War. It discusses the political and military strategies that the world's two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, employed, and provides information about key people, battles, and events.