The leaving of Liverpool by Maureen Lee
In a cold February night in 1925 two teenage sisters, Mollie and Annemarie escape from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother has died, so the sisters decide to run away to Liverpool, and from their plan to board a ship bound for New York. But the sisters are separated just as the boat is about to sail, leaving Mollie stranded in Liverpool. The subsequent paths of their lives could not be more different. Will they ever meet up again?
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Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
A devastating appraisal of the policies of Russia’s head of state by that country’s leading radical journalist. The author, internationally admired for her fearless reporting made her name reporting from Chechnya for Russia's liberal newspaper, Novaya Gazeta. Anna was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building and her murder, widely perceived as a contract killing, sparked strong international reaction and controversial debate.
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