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  • A Thousand Little Deaths

    Growing Up Under Martial Law in the Philippines

    by Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein ...
    On an otherwise normal morning at a private school for girls, a 15-year-old student is picked up by soldiers and sent to a military camp, becoming one of the thousands of political prisoners arrested under Ferdinand Marcos' repressive regime in the 1970s. A year earlier, Marcos had declared martial law and a military government effectively took over the Philippines. After her release, author Vicky ... Read more

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  • A Paradise Built in Hell

    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disasterWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal ... Read more

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  • Notes from My Travels

    Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador

    by Angelina Jolie ...
    From actress and activist Angelina Jolie comes the personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts in such countries as Sierra Leone and Tanzania, Pakistan and Cambodia.When award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), she was determined to document everything she ... Read more

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  • Call Them by Their True Names

    American Crises (and Essays)

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    "[A] call to arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America—from racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trump" ( Poets & Writers).National Book Award LonglistWinner of the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for NonfictionRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bests... ... Read more

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  • Vintage Didion

    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series Vintage Original
    The perfect introduction to one of our greatest modern writers: Joan Didion "has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian, [with] a novelist’s appreciation of the surreal" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Whether she’s writing about civil war in Central America, political scurrility in Washington, or the tightly-braided myths and realities of her native California, Joan ... Read more

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  • Comandante

    Hugo Chávez's Venezuela

    by Rory Carroll ...
    **"An impressively well-researched and readable portrait . . . a useful reminder of what el Comandante did and didn't achieve, how he got away with it, and the danger of statesmen-as-showmen whose promises are too good to be true." —The New York Times Book Review"A deeply informative, sprightly chronicle of Venezuela's dizzying journey." —The Washington Post**In Comandante, acclaimed journalist ... Read more

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  • In Our Image

    America's Empire in the Philippines

    by Stanley Karnow ...
    “A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbulent centuries.”—San Francisco ChronicleStanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America’s imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from ... Read more

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  • You Must Set Forth at Dawn

    A Memoir

    by Wole Soyinka ...
    The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, ... Read more

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  • Diary of a Dictator -- Ferdinand & Imelda: The Last Days of Camelot

    by William C. Rempel ...
    Philippine President and First Lady Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos were once so popular they were likened to America's beautiful and charismatic Jackie and JFK. Some called them "the Kennedys of Asia." But Camelot in the Philippines didn't last long, a victim of the Manila power couple's towering egos and lust for wealth and glory.Under the Marcoses, the presidential palace became a breeding ground ... Read more

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  • The Not-Quite States of America

    Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

    by Doug Mack ...
    "To truly understand the United States, one must understand the 'not-quite states of America." —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their ShapesEveryone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their ... Read more

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  • The Death of Josseline

    Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands

    by Margaret Regan ...
    Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and othersFor the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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  • Just Call Me Mike

    A Journey to Actor and Activist

    by Mike Farrell ...
    Los Angeles Times bestseller: A memoir by the M*A*S*H actor revealing his hardscrabble childhood, his life in Hollywood, and his passion for human rights.Best known for his eight years on M*A*S*H and his five seasons on Providence, Mike Farrell is also a writer, director, and producer—and a fiercely dedicated activist who has served on human rights and peace delegations to countries around the ... Read more

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