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221) Nelson Mandela
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Learn how activist, philanthropist, and South African president Nelson Mandela opposed apartheid and battled racism."--Page 4 of cover.
222) Alas salvajes
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
Español
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
Dnevnik Ivana Chisti͡akova, komandira vzvoda vooruzhennoĭ okhrany na odnom iz uchastkov BAMa, kotoryĭ on vel v GULAGe denʹ za dnem, s 1935 po 1936 god, -veroi͡atno, edinstvennyĭ doshedshiĭ do nas istochnik podobnogo roda. Ne tolʹko dnevnikov, no i kakikh-libo vospominaniĭ tekh, kto nakhodilsi͡a po ėtu storonu koli︠u︡cheĭ provoloki, izvestno ochenʹ malo, khotsi͡a v sisteme GULAGa rabotali desi͡atki tysi͡ach li︠u︡deĭ....
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society -- back cover.
After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. Solzhenitsyn...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1146
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[Blu-ray].
Language
Multiple
Description
Sambizanga: "Chronicles the awakening of Angola's independence movement ... follows a young woman as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center, looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities--an incident that will ultimately help to ignite a national uprising."--Container.
Prisioneros de la tierra: "Desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a jungle yerba maté plantation..."--Container.
Chess...
Series
The Criterion collection volume 1142-1148
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
"Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of dozens of restorations that have introduced moviegoers to often overlooked areas of cinema history. This collector's set gathers six important works, from Angola (Sambizanga), Argentina (Prisioneros de la tierra), Iran (Chess of the Wind), Cameroon...
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