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The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
by Mahvish Khan
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by Curtis Dawkins
Published May 2018
Read ReviewsIn this stunning debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence.
by John Paul Rathbone
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsThe son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie.
by Bob Woodward
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsState of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves.
by Dan Fesperman
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsRevere Falk is an interrogator at Gitmo, assigned a Yemeni prisoner who may have valuable information about al-Qaeda. But suddenly he is put in charge of an investigation into the death of American soldier washed ashore in Cuba. And there is an unusual level of interest in the proceedings, from his commander, the Cubans, and the ...
by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsThe inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
by Glenn Greenwald
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsIf we are to remain a constitutional republic, Greenwald writes, we cannot abide radical theories of executive power, which are transforming the very core of our national character, and moving us from democracy toward despotism. This is not hyperbole. This is the crisis all Americansliberals and conservatives--now face.
In the spirit of ...
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
by Ahmed Rashid
Published Mar 2001
Read ReviewsThe Taliban is brought into sharp focus in this enormously interesting and revealing book.
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