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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Having retired to the French Rivera in 1935, former intelligence operative Tom Nash finds his respite broken when someone tries to kill him in his sleep, and must pretend to live the normal life of a retiree as he tries to flush out those who want him dead.
2) No end
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Antek was one of the few lawyers willing to take on political cases in a period of enforced martial law. Upon his unexpected death, Antek's wife Ulla struggles to cope with her grief. She eventually takes on the task of finding another attorney to take over one of her husband's cases to defend a man jailed for leading a labor strike. After connecting a colleague from Antek's past with the prisoner's wife, a series of mysterious signals make Ulla believe...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he...
5) Rosewater
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr. 44 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
224 pages
Appears on list
Description
In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness within his nation....
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 620 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
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"--
10) Rosewater
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 44 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Author
Description
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm
Description
In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. In this memoir, Rezaian writes of his exhausting interrogations and farcical trial. He also reflects on his life and childhood.
13) The Mauritanian
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
This is the true story of Mohamedou Ould 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...
14) State of siege
Series
Criterion collection volume 760
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd.,col. ; 4 3/4 in. ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
U.S. official Philip Santore is abducted in Uruguay by a guerrilla group who use him to negotiate the release of political prisoners.
Publisher
Tatfilm GmbH
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Author
Formats
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
17) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
18) The Mauritanian
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
lii, 410 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The author documents his imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base as a political prisoner, his torture and mistreatment at the hands of U.S. officials, and his court-ordered release in 2016 after never being charged with a crime.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
392, 16 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Captured by the Gestapo, Maria is imprisoned in Auschwitz while her family is sent to their deaths. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Fritzsch, intends to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. Literally playing for her life through four grueling years, Maria intends to orchestrate Fritzsch's downfall. Maria, vowing to avenge the murder of her family, challenges her former nemesis to one final game,...
20) MI-5: Volume 7
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 469 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having spent years in a Russian prison, Lucas North is welcomed back by MI-5 supremo and old friend Harry Pearce, who was instrumental in finally securing his release. Lucas is keen to get back to work straight away and, with Section D's current priority operation having a strong Russian connection, he could well prove invaluable. But, after so many years with only a high ranking Russian spymaster for company, can Lucas's loyalty really be taken for...
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