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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
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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,...
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Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
"An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him...
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Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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They were present at some of the defining moment of the Tudor age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. And their stories have been untold for many years. Kaufman has unearthed the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor ENgland, and in doing so transforms how we see this period of history.
4. Mauritania
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Language:
English
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"The African nation of Mauritania has faced many challenges throughout its history, and the people of this nation still suffer alleged human rights abuses today. The conflicts that have shaped this place are presented to readers through insightful text, but readers are also given a glimpse into the lives of the everyday people of Mauritania. Their festivals, artistic pursuits, games, and beliefs are unique, and learning about them broadens readers'...
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Publisher:
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Today, millions of people are being held in slavery around the world. From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, and domestic servants. With exposés by seven former slaves, as well as one slaveholder, from Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, this groundbreaking collection of harrowing first-hand accounts reveals how slavery continues...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Ray Norman spent most of his life living in far-flung corners of the globe, working on long-term development projects and living out his calling as a Christian professional. By the time he arrived in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania around the turn of the millennium, he was veteran of life as an expat, at home in countries and cultures not his own. But in 2001, the world was about to change-and so was Ray's life. In the aftermath of 9/11-a time...
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Publisher:
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Ray Norman spent most of his life living in far-flung corners of the globe, working on long-term development projects and living out his calling as a Christian professional. By the time he arrived in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania around the turn of the millennium, he was veteran of life as an expat, at home in countries and cultures not his own. But in 2001, the world was about to change-and so was Ray's life. In the aftermath of 9/11-a time...
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Publisher:
Margo Hendricks
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Kate Collins and Meg Collins were born on the same day, in the same house, and conceived by the same parents - twins in every way except color. Kate and Simon Resonne fell in love over her Mauritanian-descended mother's tagine pot and always knew they'd marry. The day she comes face to face with an unknown twin sister Meg and white grandfather is also the day Simon breaks Kate's heart. She buries her hurt in anger and silence. Her sister Meg suspects...
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD "A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism. In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph...