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Calamity in the Caucasus
by Carlotta Gall, Thomas de Waal
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsA brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.
by Masha Gessen
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsThe chilling account of how Vladimir Putin, a low-level, small-minded KGB operative, ascended to the Russian presidency and destroyed years of progress to make his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world.
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsA revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobblers son who became the Red Tsarthe man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.
by Dan Fesperman
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsA burned-out war correspondent hoping for a last hurrah in Afghanistan arrives on the Afghan border just as American bombs begin falling on the ruling Taliban in this fast-paced, timely, and galvanizing novel.
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
Published Mar 2000
Read ReviewsIn 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy that called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority: 800,000 people were massacred. Read their story.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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