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Mrs. Pollifax has a new hat, and only she and Mr. Carstairs know it conceals eight false passports which she must smuggle into Bulgaria. In her third adventure, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself working with members of the underground to free political prisoners while trying to escape the secret police in Bulgaria. In addition, she helps a young American girl find one of her missing traveling companions

"Humorous, witty, horrific, and poetic, Jamal Saeed's story is Syria's story: surviving twelve years in brutal military prisons, an enchanted childhood, his loves, Syria's deadly upheavals, and his family's escape"-- "An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity ― and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” ― Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening...