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Bluebird is a funny, vivid and immensely readable memoir of escape from the Bosnian war to England, and an eventual return to Bosnia years later.
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Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter's Road to Understanding China
By author: Patrick Brown
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A dramatic and moving memoir of a journalist covering crises around the world on the front line of history.
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". . . an engrossing yarn . . . DarkMarket offers an emminently readable, witty narrative that sustains suspense until the very last pages." — Wall Street Journal
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In this intrepid and brilliant memoir, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell.
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A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
By author: Misha Glenny
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Misha Glenny takes you on a breathtaking, bloody journey through the new world of international organized crime.
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Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing, and this scintillating collection shows us again that whether we are in Birmingham or Belarus, there is always something new to be discovered.
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This book in the Groundwork Guides series takes a critical look at the state of the news worldwide, including the question of who owns the organs from which we get our news, a solid overview of recent developments in television and radio news, the ongoing crisis in the newspaper world and the latest forms of Internet news.
Ages 14 and up
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Visceral, complicated, and compassionate, Ways of Staying is an eloquent account of how the white community in South Africa is coping with black majority rule, and how one family is coping in the aftermath of their own private tragedy.
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