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English
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Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Journey into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg's courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Union's prisons and labor camps. By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg had been a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party for many years. Yet like millions of others who suffered during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist and counter-revolutionary—and...
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother--Santiago's beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela--struggle to adjust to a life in exile"--
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Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, an Imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The authors describe their harrowing experience being imprisoned for over two hundred days in Iran for sharing their Christian beliefs, a sentence that is usually punishable by death.
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
“An important story. Harrowing, and suspenseful, yesbut its also a deep dive into a complex and egregiously misunderstood country with two very different faces. There is no better time to know more about Iranand Jason Rezaian has seen both of those faces.” Anthony Bourdain. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for eighteen months and whose releasewhich almost didnt happenbecame a part...
11) With bound hands: a Jesuit in Nazi Germany : the life and selected prison letters of Alfred Delp
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Publisher
Jesuit Way
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
13) MI-5: Volume 7
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Having spent years in a Russian prison, Lucas North is welcomed back by MI-5 supremo and old friend Harry Pearce, who was instrumental in finally securing his release. Lucas is keen to get back to work straight away and, with Section D's current priority operation having a strong Russian connection, he could well prove invaluable. But, after so many years with only a high ranking Russian spymaster for company, can Lucas's loyalty really be taken for...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding...
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
"This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two...
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First Run features
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge was responsible for the death of nearly two million people; a quarter of the Cambodia population. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, directed both the M13 and S21 centers where tens of thousands of people were tortured and executed. A horrifying in-depth interview with Duch, who candidly talks about his ascension in the Khmer Rouge party, and his involvement in the mass murder of his fellow Cambodians.
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Ngugi of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canons sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval." Bookforum. An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge. Wrestling with the Devil, Ngg wa Thiongos powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one...
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