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  • The Desert and the Sea

    977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

    The "highly addictive" international bestseller, "an amazing true-life thriller, one of the most suspenseful books written in recent years" (Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Desert and the Sea

    977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

    Narrated by Corey Snow ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.In January 2012, having covered a Somali ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Prisoner

    My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out

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    Narrated by Jason Rezaian ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for eighteen months and whose release—which almost didn’t happen—became a part of the Iran nuclear deal.In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. Rezaian’s reporting was a mix of human interest ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Beneath the Tamarind Tree

    A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

    by Isha Sesay ...
    Narrated by Isha Sesay ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    The first definitive account of Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay.The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 made global headlines. From poor Nigerian families, these girls had defied the odds and pursued an education, but daring to dream resulted in one of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Words of My Father

    Love and Pain in Palestine

    by Yousef Bashir ...
    Narrated by Yousef Bashir ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    A Palestinian-American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, and transformative memoir that reminds us of the importance of looking beyond prejudice, anger, and fear.Yousef Bashir’s story begins in Gaza, on a verdant ten-acre farm beside an Israeli settlement and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Beneath the Tamarind Tree

    A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

    by Isha Sesay ...
    "Sesay has given us a gift in this account of the Stolen Chibok Girls of Nigeria . . . it is equal parts memoir, thriller, and inspirational call to arms." —Meryl StreepIn the early morning of April fourteen, 2014, the militant Islamic group Boko Haram violently burst into the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, and abducted 276 girls from their school dorm rooms. From poor families, these girls were ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Words of My Father

    Love and Pain in Palestine

    by Yousef Bashir ...
    A Palestinian American recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada and how he made a commitment to peace in this transformative memoir.In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, fourteen-year-old Yousef Bashir was preoccupied with soccer, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards. Dignified and empathetic, kind yet strict, Yousef ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prisoner

    My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison--Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out

    by Jason Rezaian ...
    An Iranian American journalist recounts his headline-making captivity in Tehran in "a memoir that reads like a thriller" ( The New York Times Book Review).In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. Rezaian's reporting was a mix of human interest stories and political analysis. He had even ... Read more

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  • How to Forget

    A Daughter’s Memoir

    by Kate Mulgrew ...
    “This is a masterfully crafted memoir, an elegant tour deforce that firmly establishes Mulgrew as a writer of significant literaryendowment. The soulmate to Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, How to Forget, despite the promise of its title, cannot beforgotten or ignored.” —Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and Toil& TroubleIn this profoundly honest and examined memoir about retur... ... Read more

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