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Children of Monsters

Jay Nordlinger

Children of Monsters

What’s it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What’s it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst of the worst: Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and so on. The book is not about them, really, though of course they figure in it. It’s about their children.Some of them...

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Jay Nordlinger

America 3.0

James C. Bennett

America 3.0

America’s greatest days are yet to come. We are in a painful transition period. Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not work and it cannot continue as it is. But the inevitable end of big government does not mean the end of America. It only means the end of one phase of American life. America is poised to enter a new era of freedom and prosperity. The cultural roots of the American people go back at least...

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James C. Bennett

The Reformer

Stephen F. Williams

The Reformer

Besides absolutists of the right (the tsar and his adherents) and left (Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks), the Russian political landscape in 1917 featured moderates seeking liberal reform and a rapid evolution towards a constitutional monarchy. Vasily Maklakov, a lawyer, legislator and public intellectual, was among the most prominent of these, and the most articulate and sophisticated advocate of the rule of law, the linchpin of liberalism. This book tells the story of his efforts and his...

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Stephen F. Williams

Making David into Goliath

Joshua Muravchik

Making David into Goliath

During the Six-Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought, and when the Arabs and their Soviet supporters tried to override the resolution in the General Assembly, they fell short of the necessary votes.Fast forward 40 years and Israel has become perhaps the most reviled...

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Joshua Muravchik

The Jihadist Plot

John Rosenthal

The Jihadist Plot

How could this happen in a country we helped liberate?” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pondered in the aftermath of the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi that left American ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead. The Jihadist Plot: The Untold Story of Al-Qaeda and the Libyan Rebellion shows how it could have happened and why it did happen. It happened because in supporting the Libyan rebellion against Muammar al-Qaddafi, America and its...

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John Rosenthal

The Longest Romance

Humberto Fontova

The Longest Romance

Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Alone among world leaders, Castro came to within inches of igniting a global nuclear holocaust.But you would never guess any of that from reading the mainstream American media. Instead we hear fawning accounts of Castro liberating Cuba from the clutches of U.S. robber-barons and bestowing...

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Humberto Fontova

Flight of the Eagle

Conrad Black

Flight of the Eagle

Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniquesof communication, dramatization, and...

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Conrad Black

Tod im Tal der Heiden (Ungekürzt)

Peter Tremayne

Tod im Tal der Heiden (Ungekürzt)

Schwester Fidelma und Bruder Eadulf durchqueren ein abgelegenes Tal, in dem man noch dem Heidentum anhängt. Dort machen sie einen grausigen Fund, bei dem alles auf einen heidnischen Ritualmord hindeutet. In der Burg des heidnischen Fürsten begegnet man den christlichen Gesandten des Königs von Cashel nicht sehr freundlich. Auch die Konkurrenz ist schon da: Zwei Vertreter Teils der irischen Kirche, der Rom anhängt. Als einer von ihnen ermordet wird, versucht man, Schwester Fidelma die Tat...

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Peter Tremayne

Brave Hearts (Unabridged)

Ксюша Ангел

Brave Hearts (Unabridged)

Catharine Cavanaugh is caught in a loveless marriage. Married to a British diplomat, she goes through the motions of playing the dutiful American wife in war-time London, while nightly German bombers bring terror and death to the city. Then she meets American war correspondent Jack Maguire and discovers hope and love again in the midst of desolation. But war soon comes between them. When Catharine and her husband are unexpectedly transferred to the Philippines, Jack follows. Shortly after their...

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Ксюша Ангел

Das Kloster der Toten Seelen (Ungek...

Peter Tremayne

Das Kloster der Toten Seelen (Ungekürzt)

Irland im 7. Jahrhundert: Aus einem kleinen Kloster sind sämtliche Mönche verschwunden. Haben hier dunkle Mächte die Hand im Spiel? Der König von Dyfed bittet Schwester Fridelma um Hilfe. Ein neuer Keltenkrimi mit Schwester Fridelma, die zu einer Zeit agiert, in der der katholische Glaube irisch-keltischer Prägung den Frauen noch Bildung, Macht und Einfluss gestattet. "Das Kloster der toten Seelen" («Smoke in the Wind», 2001), gesprochen von Sabine Swoboda, ist der elfte Roman aus der...

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Peter Tremayne

The Devil's Slave

Tracy Borman

The Devil's Slave

At the end of The King’s Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The Devil’s Slave, Frances is compelled to return to the dissolute and dangerous court where she has been suspected of witchcraft.Catholics have gone underground in the new Puritan regime of King James I, and yet...

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Tracy Borman

Roots in Reverse

Richard M. Shain

Roots in Reverse

Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the n&#233;gritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural and political citizenship and modernity. Shain argues that the trajectory of Afro-Cuban music in twentieth century Senegal illuminates many...

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Richard M. Shain

The Connecticut Prison Association...

Gordon S. Bates

The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice

The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice looks at the role the Connecticut Prison Association played in the formation of the state's criminal justice system. Now organized under the name Community Partners in Action (CPA), the Connecticut Prison Association was formed to ameliorate the conditions of criminal defendants and people in prison, improve the discipline and administration of local jails and state prisons, and furnish assistance and...

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Gordon S. Bates

Treaty Shirts

Gerald Vizenor

Treaty Shirts

Gerald Vizenor creates masterful, truthful, surreal, and satirical fiction similar to the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman. In this imagined future, seven natives are exiled from federal sectors that have replaced federal reservations; they pursue the liberty of an egalitarian government on an island in Lake of the Woods. These seven narrators, known only by native nicknames, are related to characters in Vizenor's other novels and stories. Vizenor was...

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Gerald Vizenor

Gervase Wheeler

Renée Tribert

Gervase Wheeler

Gervase Wheeler was an English-born architect who designed such important American works as the Henry Boody House in Brunswick, Maine; the Patrick Barry House in Rochester, New York; and the chapels at Bowdoin and Williams colleges. But he was perhaps best known as the author of two influential architecture books, Rural Homes (1851) and Homes for the People (1855). Yet Wheeler has remained a little known, enigmatic figure. Ren&#233;e Tribert and James F....

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Renée Tribert

The Emergence of Latin American Sci...

Rachel Haywood Ferreira

The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts...

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Rachel Haywood Ferreira

Shakespeare and the Coconuts

Natasha Distiller

Shakespeare and the Coconuts

In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness. Beginning with Solomon Plaatje, the author looks at the development of an elite group educated in English and able to use Shakespeare to formulate South African works and South African identities. Refusing simple or easy answers, Distiller then explores the South African...

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Natasha Distiller

Thinking Freedom in Africa

Michael Neocosmos

Thinking Freedom in Africa

Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom for most of the twentieth century, was found wanting when it came to thinking emancipation because social interests and identities were understood as simply reflected in political subjectivity which...

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Michael Neocosmos

Place of Thorns

Tshepo Moloi

Place of Thorns

Place of Thorns: Black Political protest in Kroonstad since 1976, is a landmark study that examines the tumultuous and often fractious politics in Kroonstad?s black townships. In spite of the town?s relative obscurity, the author demonstrates a rich tradition of civic and political life in its townships and provides a persuasive explanation for the violence unleashed in the 1990s after decades of relative political ?quiescence?. Based on scores of life-history interviews, the book illustrates...

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Tshepo Moloi

Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust

Michael J. Bazyler

Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust

In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies torespond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, itwould have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial.Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some. This book uncovers ten “forgotten trials” of the Holocaust,selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the course of thelast seven decades. It showcases how perpetrators of the Holocaust were dealtwith in...

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Michael J. Bazyler

Der Trafikant (ungekürzt)

Ксюша Ангел

Der Trafikant (ungekürzt)

Die Geschichte von Franz, Freud und Anezka im Wien der 30er-Jahre. Österreich 1937: Der 17-jährige Franz Huchel verlässt sein Heimatdorf, um in Wien als Lehrling in einer Trafik – einem Tabak- und Zeitungsgeschäft – sein Glück zu suchen. Dort begegnet er dem Stammkunden Sigmund Freud und ist sofort fasziniert von dessen Ausstrahlung. Als sich Franz kurz darauf Hals über Kopf in die Varietétänzerin Anezka verliebt und in eine tiefe Verunsicherung stürzt, sucht er bei Professor Freud Rat.

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Ксюша Ангел

Nehmt Herrin diesen Kranz (gekürzte...

Ксюша Ангел

Nehmt Herrin diesen Kranz (gekürzte Fassung)

Die Weinlese bringt Alyss nichts als Ärger: Ihr Mann Arndt hat heimlich ihren Weingarten verkauft. Und Kilian, der Sohn eines einflußreichen Händlers, den Alyss für einige Zeit aufgenommen hat, erweist sich als wahrer Satansbraten. Daß Kilian kurz darauf entführt wird, macht die Lage nicht besser. Außerdem entdeckt Alyss, daß ihre kostbare Brautkrone, ein Teil ihrer Mitgift, verschwunden ist. Nun bleibt ihr keine Wahl mehr … Alyss macht sich an die Ermittlungen und läßt nicht locker, bis sie...

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Ксюша Ангел

Settlement

Ann Birch

Settlement

The untold story of scandal and political intrigue in early Toronto. Anna Jameson arrives in the tiny settlement of Toronto in November, 1836. She has come at the request of her estranged husband, but she intends to gather material for a new book, which will eventually be published in England years later. At first, Anna finds herself in an alien world. She has little in common with Toronto women whose interests centre on gossip and their families, but as she begins to move into adventures like...

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Ann Birch

Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

Mary Pettit

Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

Home child Mary Janeway runs away from her farm placement, grows into adulthood, and ultimately comes to terms with life in Hamilton, Ontario. Sixteen-year-old Mary Janeway, a home child, is desperate to escape from her rural home child placement and flees to London, Ontario, to find a domestic position. When conditions become unbearable, she moves on, vowing never to relinquish her freedom again. After she arrives in Hamilton as a young bride, she quickly adapts to the urban conveniences and...

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Mary Pettit

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