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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 219
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the "missing images" of the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film recounts his firsthand experience of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime. For most of the time, the only visual material available on this regime was propaganda films depicting an idealized world of workers happily contributing to the new country Kampuchea's collective...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished...
5) Neruda
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Author
Publisher
Ocean Sur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Essays and interviews discuss political, social, and intellectual developments in Latin America, including the rise of democratically elected leaders with socialist views, and consider the role of a revitalized Marxism in bringing change.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, rvealing a skeleton. Inspector Erlendur's investigatiion takes him back to the Cold War era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the "heavenly state" of Communist East Germany. Teeming with spies and informants, though, their "heavenly state" became a nightmare of betrayal and murder.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
9) Child 44
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1953 Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov loses status, power, and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa, as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up by Leo's psychopathic rival Vasili, who insists there is no crime in paradise.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Drama! Comedy! Tragedy! For the renowned Southern playwright called Snagglepuss, these are the ingredients that have made him a star of the New York stage and the glittering world that surrounds it. But the year is 1953, and behind the bright lights, darkness is brewing. As Snagglepuss prepares for his next hit play, there's already a target on his back. The Red Scare is in full effect, and the House Un-American Activities Committee is hunting down...
11) Berlin
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens--Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city...
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