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"On the last hot day of summer 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weaver's family, government insiders, and others, Jess Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal...

The French Revolution and the blood-curdling violence it engendered terrified the ruling and propertied classes of Europe. Unable to grasp how such horrors could have come about, many concluded that it was the result of a devilish conspiracy hatched by Freemasons inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment with the aim of overthrowing the entire social order, along with the legal and religious principles it stood on. Others traced it back to the Reformation...

"A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, an ex-Nazi cult from which no one has ever escaped."--Container.

The celebrated Uruguayan writer relays the personal pain and extensive social damage brought on by authoritarian repression and exile. Through a novel voicing the profound disruptions to human relations under a regime of military dictators, Benedetti, an exile himself, denounces the political authorities and empowers the people with a passionate hope for their country and the message that spring never fails to follow even the most oppressive of winters....

Applebaum, a Pulitzer award winning author who has written about Soviet history before, presents a history of the Soviet expansion into Europe following World War II up to 1956. She focuses on Hungary, Poland, and East Germany. She explains how the USSR imported the Soviet system into occupied nations, how the Soviets controlled radio-broadcasting in satellite nations, how Soviets encouraged, and how civil society organizations and small businesses...

"A look at the life of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States. Victimized by a government that banned his books and jailed him for a crime he didn't commit, [poet] Reinaldo [Arenas] endured unspeakable persecution in a courageous stand against censorship and oppression....

"Julio César Mondragón Fontes, normalista, encontró la muerte la madrugada del 27 de septiembre de 2014 en Iguala, Guerrero. Aquel día alguien robó su celular. A partir de este hecho, los periodistas Francisco Cruz, Félix Santana y Miguel Ángel Alvarado revelan cómo los registros de actividades telefónicas posteriores al asesinato abrieron una cloaca que conduce a las profundidades de un México corrupto y violento que la mayoría no nos...