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1) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
In this triumphant bestseller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming bonds of six young runaways cast adrift in the worldas well as the hedonistic pursuit of drugs and pleasure that collapses all around them. With the sure touch...
Author
Series
Liberation trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The first volume in a three-volume work about the liberation of Europe opens in North Africa in 1942 and charts America's rise to world-power status by its involvement in a war on two fronts. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Long Gray Line 100,000 first printing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa routinely captured American...
9) Cooking the North African way: culturally authentic foods including low fat and vegetarian recipies
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the cooking and food habits of North Africa, and provides brief information on the geography, history, holidays, and festivals of the area.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab world. To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France--and, indeed, all of Europe--as well as major events from the Arab Spring to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey believes that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons. As much as unemployment, economic stagnation, and social deprivation exacerbate the ongoing turmoil...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Smith, a young Texan, embarks on an expedition across a strange continent where he encounters strange adventures, from a desert hermit who can slow up time to a battle with a crocodile cult that worships the god of death.
"All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone is the rollicking adventure story of Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, who thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1849 journey by Heinrich Barth into the unexplored Islamic regions of North and Central Africa, detailing the discoveries he made as he traveled 10,000 miles over five years, lost most of his companions, and finally arrived at Timbuktu.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by...
15) The lost oasis: the desert war and the hunt for Zerzura ; the true story behind The English patient
Author
Publisher
Westview Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying dying in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his mailbag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two. In the midst of profound trauma, terrible warfare, and the nameless experience of desertion, this gripping story...
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
A jihadist leader has seized a supply of sarin gas and is wreaking havoc. Marine gunnery sergeant A. E. Blount, the grandson of one of the first black Marines, sets out with his strike force to kill or capture the terrorist. Several Marines are killed, some are captured, and the jihadist promises that unless forces withdraw, he will execute one prisoner a day. Immediately, Blount's friends and colleagues Sophia Gold, now with the U.N., and Lieutenant...
18) The right fight
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
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