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Murder in Baker Company Murder in Baker Company Cilla McCain Using court transcripts, personal interviews, and police records to retrace the key events of the case, this journey to uncover the truth about what happened to Richard Davis provides a disturbing, e… OL13852624W
Black hearts Black hearts Jim Frederick This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment--a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called … OL13856590W
Alibi Alibi Joseph Kanon It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witne… OL167140W
A death in Vienna A death in Vienna Daniel Silva Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a bombing and uncovers a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives-and into his own personal n… OL1814727W
The girl from Kathmandu The girl from Kathmandu Cam Simpson A heart-rending narrative that moves from the Himalayas to the Middle East to Houston and culminates in an epic court battle, this is a story of death and life - of the war in Iraq, the killings of t… OL19738349W
A journey to the dark heart of nameless unspeakable evil A journey to the dark heart of nameless unspeakable evil Jane Bussmann "In this uproariously funny memoir-meets-travelogue, British comedy writer Bussmann (Worst Date Ever) chronicles her transition from celebrity gossip columnist to foreign news correspondent, driven b… OL19980462W
Putin's wars Putin's wars Marcel H. van Herpen This fully updated book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin's three wars, placing the Second Chechen War, the war with Georgia of 2008, and the war with Ukraine of 2014-2015 in their broade… OL20035921W
The Jakarta Method The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony… OL20781307W
Testimony Testimony Scott Turow Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire G… OL20822743W
Amidst mass atrocity and the rubble of theology Amidst mass atrocity and the rubble of theology Peter Admirand It is hubris to claim answers to unanswerable questions. Such questions, however--as part of their burden and worth--must still be asked, investigated, and contemplated. How there can be a loving, al… OL20955243W
Perpetrators Perpetrators Guenter Lewy ix, 195 pages : 25 cm OL21144694W
Worst Date Ever Worst Date Ever Jane Bussmann "One day Jane was a comedy scriptwriter with a successful career in British television and bright hopes for a future in Hollywood. The next she's stranded in La La Land, reduced to interviewing celeb… OL21191413W
Law and war Law and war Peter Maguire,Peter H. Maguire "During the twentieth century, the United States attempted to redefine war crimes to include acts previously considered beyond the realm of objective judgment, and to determine appropriate punishment… OL221558W
De doofpotgeneraal De doofpotgeneraal Edwin Giltay Casema-medewerker onthult spionageactiviteiten van de militaire inlichtingendienst die erop gericht waren bewijzen van oorlogsmisdaden in voormalig Joegoslavië in de doofpot te stoppen. OL24440157W
Thematic prosecution of international sex crimes Thematic prosecution of international sex crimes Morten Bergsmo By singling out the theme of recruitment and use of child soldiers in its first case, the Lubanga Trial Judgment of the International Criminal Court has legitimized the very idea of thematic prosecut… OL27309584W
The United Nations Convention against torture The United Nations Convention against torture Elizabeth McArthur,Manfred Nowak xxvi, 1649 p. ; 24 cm OL3567033W
The scourge of the swastika The scourge of the swastika Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron The most frightening element of this book is the fact that some people in authority felt the truth about the extermination of 13 million people in the labor camps and gas chanbers of the Nazis was to… OL5191220W
For humanity For humanity Richard Goldstone A justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since 1994, Goldstone provides an intimate account of his progression from a young activist opposing South Africa's racial policies to the world'… OL545545W
The Waldheim affair The Waldheim affair Harold H. Tittmann "In 1986 allegations began to appear in the American media that Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary General of the United Nations and candidate for President of Austria, had a hidden Nazi past and had be… OL6237360W
International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma Yael Danieli The first major text on the inter-generational, cross-generational impact of trauma on children, adults, families, communities and nations, edited by a pioneer in the field, with chapters by the worl… OL9279079W
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