The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

An intimate account of the conflict in Syria by a journalist who has reported on both sides of those directly involved in the war. Tells the person...

"Sarah Glidden's remarkable Rolling Blackouts adds a new twist to thegraphic journalism] form. Glidden accompanies a team of journalists through Sy...

Reducere. In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. In...

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DescriptionA page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever chang...

The gripping story of a UK journalist imprisoned and tortured in Iran and the global campaign for his release

Musa Al-Halool, from Raqqa Syria, has put together 36 tales on the subject of the Syrian Civil War, the Assad government, and the authoritarian sty...

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Robbie and Jenna have a problem - Tiddles, the class hamster, has eaten their teacher! As the two friends stumble upon more overgrown and threateni...

Reducere. After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to disco...

The hilarious second book in Nigel William's comic trilogy set in Wimbledon, delightfully re-issued with a stunning new cover.

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In White Carnations is a collection of 101 tales that sketch life inside and outside Syria during the revolution that began in 2011.Publisher: Cune...

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? Here is an accessible and enlightening guide to the sometimes hidd...

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Reducere. DescriptionAn intimate and poignant memoir about the family of Alan Kurdi--the young Syrian boy who became the global emblem for the desperate plig...

Reducere. It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic trage...

Celebrating the prize that has honored international literature's top players, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Edwidge Danticat, a groundbreaking co...

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A Chilling Casebook of Horrifying Hometown Crimes How well do you really know your friends?Neighbours, friends, doctors and colleagues.

They Came to Baghdad. Level 5, B2+ - Agatha Christie

Reducere. Looking to make a radical change in his life, English teacher Chuck McKeever decides to hike the 2, 650-mile Pacific Crest Trail. The only problem:...

They Came to Slay investigates just how D&D became such a powerful mechanic for queer people to examine, explore, and come to terms with who they a...

Reducere. Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed sati...

This sensitively written and beautifully illustrated story offers a wealth of opportunities to begin a conversation about the difficult emotions th...

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls captures her experience as a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while...

DescriptionAn astonishing but true account of a pianist's escape from war-torn Syria to Germany offers a deeply personal perspective on the most de...

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An analysis of the present political moment, and the anger that defines it, from bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke.

An analysis of the present political moment, and the anger that defines it, from bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke.

Reducere. To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or alive. To his older brother, Robert, his mo...

The lives of Jill Newman and her friends look perfect, but nothing is as it seems. Jill's best friend, the brilliant, dazzling Shaila, was killed b...

TV ADAPTATION THE PLAYERS' TABLE STARRING HALSEY AND EUPHORIA'S SYDNEY SWEENEY COMING TO HBO MAX"A pristine infusion of Gossip Girl and Netflix's E...

In Syria, culture has become a critical line of defenceagainst tyranny. Syria Speaks is a celebration of a people determined toreclaim their dignit...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

An analysis of the present political moment, and the anger that defines it, from bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke.Publisher:...

Reducere. ``A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their...

But would we really want it? Varoufakis's boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and confronts ...

Do you know how many things in your daily life were invented by accident? SANDWICHES came about when an English earl was too busy gambling to eat h...

The future of the world's ice is at a critical juncture marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers...

Reducere. DescriptionFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A...