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Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of a wealthy, powerful Moroccan general, the king's closest aide. She led a life of luxury and privilege, jet-setting first class to Paris and Hollywood, dancing the night away in chic discos. Then, at 19, Malika's world changed forever. Her father was shot after leading a failed coup attempt, and she, her mother and her five siblings were imprisoned and forced to live in squalor and humiliation for twenty years....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The heart-wrenching "New York Times"-bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. Harden unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin's shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 34
Description
"In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos plot to remove the inept king and place the king's twin brother on the throne of France. Meanwhile, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner known only as "Phillippe" wastes away deep inside...
Author
Series
English history novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Description
"To the Tower Born is a lively tale, told with a natural novelist's eye for drama and vivid characterization." - --Carolly Erickson, author of The Girl From Botany Bay
"Spirited, colorful . . . brims with page-turning drama." - Publishers Weekly
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.Draws on the author's personal archive of never-before-seen papers to offer unique access to the private world of the incomparable world leader, who worked from prison to end apartheid in South Africa.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Embark on a chilling journey inside one of the world's darkest and most dangerous places: Evin, the notorious Tehran prison. Here, prisoners are routinely tortured, abused, and violated. Executions are frequent and sudden. But for two women imprisoned for their Christian faith-Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh-this hell on earth was a place of unlikely grace as they reflected God's love and compassion to their fellow prisoners and guards....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Fleeing America and his gambling debts, Jim Vilatzer uses the Russian language skills he learned from his émigré grandparents to land a job in Moscow interviewing Gulag survivors, work that brings him into the rich lives of his new neighbors and catches the suspicious attentions of Russia's Interior Ministry and the CIA.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz, but while her family is sent to their deaths, she is spared. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Karl Fritzsch, decides to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. However,...
Author
Description
The gripping and inspiring story of two extraordinary women--from their imprisonment by the Taliban to their rescue by U.S. Special Forces. When Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer arrived in Afghanistan, they had come to help bring a better life and a little hope to some of the poorest and most oppressed people in the world. Within a few months, their lives were thrown into chaos as they became pawns in historic international events. They were arrested...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a 'reeducation' camp--manufacturing the products sold in our own big-box stores"--
15) The Mauritanian
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. In this memoir, Rezaian writes of his exhausting interrogations and farcical trial. He also reflects on his life and childhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the future leader of South Africa wrote a multitude of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most...
19) Rendition
Pub. Date
2008.
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...