The president knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against...
Political persecution
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
- Author:Müller, HertaSummary:
Romania, 1989. Three friends are enjoying comfortable lives, but one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the whole group. Terror ensues as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world...
- Author:Johansen, Ilse, Marshall, Heather, Gahler, Hans Rudolf, Seadle, MichaelSummary:
“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful...
- Author:Johansen, IlseSummary:
“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful...
- Author:Tomasov, AgnesSummary:
Hiding from the Nazis in the forests of Slovakia’s Low Tatra Mountains in the fall of 1944, in constant danger from the Germans occupying nearby villages, fourteen-year-old Agnes Grossmann and her family made the daring decision to...
- Author:Awumey, EdemSummary:
Ito Baraka is going to die. In Gatineau, far from the sun, in a dark, shabby flat he shares with his Native girlfriend, Kimi. But before he can die, he has a book to finish, in which he recounts events in a country where the suns burns...
- Author:Wang, NingSummary:
Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour farm archives and other newly...