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Blood and oil: Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
By Bradley Hope. 2020
Hope and Scheck show how Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise to power coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain…
that had been at the head of U.S.-Saudi relations for more than eighty years: oil in exchange for military protection.The Ghost Collector
By Allison Mills. 2019
Ghosts aren’t meant to stick around forever… Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their hair. Just like all the…
women in their family, they can see souls who haven’t transitioned yet; it’s their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly’s mom dies suddenly, Shelly’s relationship to ghosts—and death—changes. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or people she hides in her room, Shelly can’t ignore the one ghost that’s missing. Why hasn’t her mom’s ghost come home yet? Rooted in a Cree worldview and inspired by stories about the author’s great-grandmother’s life, The Ghost Collector delves into questions of grief and loss, and introduces an exciting new voice in tween fiction that will appeal to fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between between Saudi Arabia and Iran,…
born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy. With vivid story-telling, extensive historical research and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. She shows how they used and distorted religion in a competition that went well beyond geopolitics. Feeding intolerance, suppressing cultural expression, and encouraging sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, the war for cultural supremacy led to Iran's fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, the assassination of countless intellectuals, the birth of groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the rise of ISIS. Ghattas also introduces us to a riveting cast of characters whose lives were upended by the geopolitical drama over four decades: from the Pakistani television anchor who defied her country's dictator, to the Egyptian novelist thrown in jail for indecent writings all the way to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018Mongolian Chronicles: A Story of Eagles, Demons, and Empires
By Allen Smutylo. 2019
Longlisted, RBC Taylor PrizeIn the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads…
survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting not with traps or guns, but on horseback with golden eagles.The Mongolian Chronicles recounts a story of this untamed world, seen through the eyes of artist, writer, and traveller Allen Smutylo. Smutylo lived with seven eagle hunters and their families for several weeks over two years, affording him rare insight into a disappearing culture. His extraordinary narrative is set within the context of Mongolia's turbulent past — the long shadow cast by the empire of Genghis Khan, the deprivations of early twentieth century warlords-cum-mystics — and its protean present, where ancient customs and shamanistic beliefs exist among an increasingly urbanized people.Smutylo's vivid prose and powerful artwork portray a Mongolia of contradictions and extremes. Readers will encounter a country with a vast wilderness that nonetheless has one of the most polluted capitals on earth; a modern economy in which tent-dwelling nomads still rely on their animals for survival; a people unchanged for millennia, yet recognizing that their way of life may disappear with their generation.Shuni: ce que tu dois savoir, Julie (Chronique)
By Naomi Fontaine. 2019
Naomi Fontaine écrit une longue lettre à son amie Shuni, une jeune Québécoise venue dans sa communauté pour aider les…
Innus. Elle convoque l'histoire. Surgissent les visages de la mère, du père, de la grand-mère. Elle en profite pour s'adresser à Petit ours, son fils. Les paysages de Uashat défilent, fragmentés, radieux. Elle raconte le doute qui mine le coeur des colonisés, l'impossible combat d'être soi. Shuni, cette lettre fragile et tendre, dit la force d'inventer l'avenir, la lumière de la vérité. La vie est un cercle où tout recommence.Je ne suis pas un numéro
By Kathy Kacer, Jenny Kay Dupuis. 2017
See below for English description.Irene, huit ans et ses deux frères sont forcés de quitter leur famille pour aller dans…
un pensionnat loin de chez eux. C'est la loi! Dans cet endroit austère, on les empêche de parler leur langue et on leur donne un numéro en guise de nom. À la fin de l'année scolaire, les enfants rentrent à la maison et informent leurs parents des conditions exécrables dans lesquelles ils doivent vivre au pensionnat. Trouveront-ils un moyen de cacher les enfants afin qu'ils n'y retournent jamais?Inspiré de la vie de la grand-mère de Jenny Kay Dupuis, Je ne suis pas un numéro met en lumière une sombre partie de l'histoire du Canada de manière à sensibiliser les enfants et à leur permettre d'en tirer une leçon humaine et historique.When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the nuns' efforts to force her to do otherwise. When she goes home for summer holidays, her parents decide to never send her away again, but where will she hide and what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis’ own grandmother, Je ne suis pas un numéro is a must-read book that brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.Original title: I Am Not a NumberArgo: comment la CIA et Hollywood ont imaginé la plus audacieuse mission de sauvetage de tous les temps
By Antonio J Mendez. 2013
" Le 4 novembre 1979, des étudiants iraniens prennent d'assaut l'ambassade américaine à Téhéran et retiennent en otages des dizaines…
de fonctionnaires et diplomates américains. Six d'entre eux parviennent à fuir et trouvent refuge à l'ambassade du Canada. Ils réussissent à contacter leur gouvernement, et la CIA décide de monter une opération d'envergure pour les exfiltrer du pays. À la tête de l'opération, Tony Mendez, un agent chevronné de la CIA, qui imagine de tourner en Iran un film de science-fiction intitulé Argo. Il se rend à Téhéran au prétexte de trouver le décor idéal et visiter les lieux de tournage... En janvier 2000, après de nombreuses péripéties et sueurs froides, il parvient à faire monter les six Américains dans un avion. Direction : les États-Unis, la liberté. Dans ce document qui a servi de base au film de Ben Affleck, Tony Mendez donne tous les détails et dévoile les dessous de l'opération extrêmement complexe et dangereuse qu'il a menée à bien. " -- 4e de couvMembre du commando qui a éliminé Oussama Ben Laden au Pakistan le 2 mai 2011, l'auteur fait le récit d'une…
traque longue de huit ans à travers la corne de l'Afrique, l'Asie centrale et le Moyen-Orient.Chambre avec vue sur la guerre: témoignage
By Édith Bouvier. 2012
" Je n'ai pas fermé l'oeil de la nuit. Nous avons tellement fumé que la pièce est nimbée d'un voile…
de nicotine. Dehors, la lumière du jour pointe à peine et déjà le bruit sourd et grave des obus s'abattant sur la ville reprend. Un premier impact. Je sens le sol bouger, doucement. Un léger tremblement. Celui-là a dû tomber plus loin. " Février 2012. La journaliste Edith Bouvier lance un appel au secours. Gravement blessée à la jambe dans les bombardements qui ont tué les reporters Marie Colvin et Rémi Ochlik au coeur de la ville assiégée de Homs, en Syrie, la jeune femme a besoin de soins de toute urgence. Avec plusieurs confrères, elle est recueillie par des insurgés syriens au sein d'un dispensaire de fortune du quartier de Baba Amr. Pris au piège, ils tentent le tout pour le tout pour s'échapper en pleine nuit. Ce livre retrace un parcours hors du commun, dix jours entre la vie et la mort. " -- 4e de couvLes impunis: Cambodge, un voyage dans la banalité du mal
By Olivier Weber. 2013
'' Au Cambodge, tous les Khmers rouges n'ont pas été jugés, loin de là. Pendant plusieurs années Olivier Weber a…
arpenté la région de Pailin, devenue une enclave de non-droit négociée à la fin de la guerre par d'anciens responsables du génocide. Dans l'indifférence générale, ils ont instauré un mini-État mafieux où les bourreaux d'hier se cachent derrière un écran d'or. Bordels, casinos, trafic de rubis, blanchiment d'argent... Les sbires de Pol Pot, qui avaient aboli la monnaie et puni de mort les relations sexuelles hors mariage, font régner une terreur subtile. Loin des procès officiels, ils prospèrent en toute impunité, et le mal, à force d'être accepté, finit par se banaliser. " -- 4e de couvJesus through Middle Eastern eyes: cultural studies in the gospels
By Kenneth E Bailey. 2020
Kenneth E. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus's relationship…
to women, and especially Jesus's parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead listeners into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament. If you have benefited from Bailey's work over the years, this book will be a welcome and indispensable addition to your library. If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding JesusLa nuit nous a surpris: récit (Récits et témoignages)
By Kien Nguyen. 2001
Le destin d'un enfant amérasien exposé à la violence de la communauté vietnamienne à cause de ses cheveux blonds et…
ses yeux clairs et qui assiste à l'arrivée des communistes dans Saigon le 30 avril 1975 et au départ de l'armée américaine.The world turned upside down: A history of the chinese cultural revolution
By Yang Jisheng. 2021
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the…
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation's economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personalityThe long gray line: The american journey of west point's class of 1966
By Rick Atkinson. 2021
"A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."— The Boston Globe **This program includes an original…
foreword, read by Rick Atkinson, and exclusive to the audiobook.** For more on Rick Atkinson's research and writing, please visit revolutiontrilogy.com A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved—from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American history, and Atkinson's masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams. With a New Afterword by the Author A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and CompanyWhere great powers meet: America and china in southeast asia
By David Shambaugh. 2021
The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across…
the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant area-and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global "power transition" occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their competition. The United States continues to possess a depth and breadth of security ties, soft power, and direct investment across the region that empirically outweigh China's. For its part, China has more diplomatic influence, much greater trade, and geographic proximity. In assessing the likelihood of a regional power transition, Shambaugh examines how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its member states maneuver and the degree to which they align with one or the other powerDays of steel rain: The epic story of a wwii vengeance ship in the year of the kamikaze
By Brent E. Jones. 2021
An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group…
of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria , named after her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war. At its center lies U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer, who vowed to return to action after suffering a horrific wound. He accepted the ship's command in 1944, knowing it would be his last chance to avenge his injuries and salvage his career. Yet with the nation's resources and personnel stretched thin by the war, he found that just getting the ship into action would prove to be a battle. Tensions among the crew flared from the start. Astoria 's sailors and Marines were a collection of replacements, retreads, and older men. Some were broken by previous traumatic combat, most had no desire to be in the war, yet all found themselves fighting an enemy more afraid of surrender than death. The reluctant ship was called to respond to challenges that its men never could have anticipated. From a typhoon where the ocean was enemy to daring rescue missions in the Philippines, a gallant turn at Iwo Jima, and the ultimate crucible against the Kamikaze at Okinawa, they endured the worst of the final year of the war at sea. Days of Steel Rain brings to life more than a decade of research and firsthand interviews, depicting with unprecedented insight the singular drama of a captain grappling with a prospective mutiny amidst some of the most brutal fighting of World War II. Throughout, Brent Jones fills the narrative with secret diaries, memoirs, letters, interpersonal conflicts, and the innermost thoughts of the Astoria men. Days of Steel Rain weaves an intimate, unforgettable portrait of leadership, heroism, endurance, and redemptionBlood washing blood: Afghanistan's hundred-year war
By Phil Halton. 2021
A clear-eyed view of the conflict in Afghanistan and its century-deep roots. The war in Afghanistan has consumed vast amounts…
of blood and treasure, causing the Western powers to seek an exit without achieving victory. Seemingly never-ending, the conflict has become synonymous with a number of issues-global jihad, rampant tribalism, and the narcotics trade-but even though they are cited as the causes of the conflict, they are in fact symptoms. Rather than beginning after 9/11 or with the Soviet "invasion" in 1979, the current conflict in Afghanistan began with the social reforms imposed by Amanullah Amir in 1919. Western powers have failed to recognize that legitimate grievances are driving the local population to turn to insurgency in Afghanistan. The issues they are willing to fight for have deep roots, forming a hundred-year-long social conflict over questions of secularism, modernity, and centralized power. The first step toward achieving a "solution" to the Afghanistan "problem" is to have a clear-eyed view of what is really driving itTombstone: The great chinese famine, 1958-1962
By Yang Jisheng. 2021
The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death…
during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster." As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China's totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest. Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in powerThe duchess countess
By Catherine Ostler. 2021
'A scintillating story superbly told... [Ostler] packs every paragraph with eye-opening detail' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Times 'A rollicking read...…
[Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Fascinating. Magnificent.? Sensitively told' Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five and The Covent Garden Ladies 'Catherine Ostler's superb, gripping, decadent biography brings an extraordinary woman and a whole world blazingly to life' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Catherine the Great and Potemkin When the glamorous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, Countess of Bristol, went on trial at Westminster Hall for bigamy in April 1776, the story drew more attention in society than the American War of Independence. A clandestine, candlelit wedding to the young heir to an earldom, a second marriage to a Duke, a lust for diamonds and an electrifying appearance at a masquerade ball in a diaphanous dress: no wonder the trial was a sensation. However, Elizabeth refused to submit to public humiliation and retire quietly. Rather than backing gracefully out of the limelight, she embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe, being welcomed by the Pope and Catherine the Great among others. As maid of honour to Augusta, Princess of Wales, Elizabeth led her life in the inner circle of the Hanoverian court and her exploits delighted and scandalised the press and the people. She made headlines, and was a constant feature in penny prints and gossip columns. Writers were intrigued by her. Thackeray drew on Elizabeth as inspiration for his calculating, alluring Becky Sharp. But her behaviour, often depicted as attention-seeking and manipulative, hid a more complex tale – that of Elizabeth's fight to overcome personal tragedy and loss. Now, in this brilliantly told and evocative biography , Catherine Ostler takes a fresh look at Elizabeth's story and seeks to understand and reappraise a woman who refused to be defined by society's expectations of her. A woman who was by turns, brave, loving and generous but also reckless, greedy and insecure; a woman totally unwilling to accept the female status of underdog or to hand over all the power, the glory and the adventures of life to menA general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd…
Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews. Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit. General George Patton and the other top U.S. commanders needed an officer who knew how to break the impasse and roll over the Germans—they needed one man with the grit and the vision to take the war all the way to the Rhine. Patton and his peers selected Maurice Rose. The son of a rabbi, Rose never discussed his Jewish heritage. But his ferocity on the battlefield reflected an inner flame. He led his 3rd Armored Division not from a command post but from the first vehicle in formation, charging headfirst into a fight. He devised innovative tactics, made the most of American weapons, and personally chose the cadre of young officers who drove his division forward. From Normandy to the West Wall, from the Battle of the Bulge to the final charge across Germany, Maurice Rose's deadly division of tanks blasted through enemy lines and pursued the enemy with a remarkable intensity. In The Panzer Killers , Daniel P. Bolger, a retired lieutenant general and Iraq War veteran, offers up a lively, dramatic tale of Rose's heroism. Along the way, Bolger infuses the narrative with fascinating insights that could only come from an author who has commanded tank forces in combat. The result is a unique and masterful story of battlefield leadership, destined to become a classic