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FBI Special Agent Pendergast, searching for the human villain behind the death of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, found murdered in a crime that appears to have supernatural origins, follows the trail from New York to the Italian countryside where he learns a shocking secret.

A young boy in Depression-era Chicago begins a career marked by failure until he finally achieves his success.

Discusses the causes and events of the Spanish Civil War, focusing on the American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the key battles in which they were involved, and their reasons for joining in this early fight against fascism.

American college student Jonathan Safran Foer sets out, along with Ukranian travel agent Alex Perchov, Alex's depressive grandfather, and the family dog, in an attempt to find the village where a Ukranian woman might or might not have saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis during World War II.

Provides a detailed biography of American novelist Edith Wharton, discussing her journeys through Europe, her peers, the places she lived, unhappy marriage, passionate affair, literary works, and much more. Includes photographs.

After an earthquake hits Istanbul, Kurdish Muslim Sinan and his family are forced to live in a camp, set up by American missionaries and headed by his American neighbor who he always avoided, and much to his disapproval, while residing in the camp, his son is slowly converted to Christianity and his daughter falls in love with a seventeen-year-old American.

The author relates his experiences living and working for over twenty years in Zimbabwe, and recalls how the government of President Robert Mugabe massacred hundreds of people and ordered Meldrum out of the country for printing negative things about his administration.

Argues that the U.S. government settled for a plea bargain in its case against American Taliban member John Walker Lindh in order to hide secrets about America's dealings with terrorist states, and examines the life of Lindh and attempts by FBI agent John O'Neill to warn of danger from Al-Qaeda before the September 11th attacks.

Journalist Tracy Dahlby chronicles the history of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, describing the Indonesia-based group's efforts to create a pure Islamic super-state in Southeast Asia.