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Koop: The Memoirs of America’s Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop
The former Surgeon General discusses his tenure in that job, describing his nonideological approach to health issues, how he tackled the tobacco lobbies, his speaking out about AIDS, and his personal life.
Circle Of Fear by Hussein Sumaida, Carole Jerome
Circle of Fear is the unique story of one man’s love-hate relationship with his country, taking the reader, like no other book to date, into the inner workings of Iraqi society. The reader will learn of the Da’wah (the Islamic fundamentalist opp0sition to Saddam Hussein’s government hitherto largely unknown to the West), the operations inside Iraq of terrorists such as Abu al-Abbas, the nuclear reactor Osirak, which even now may be active, chilling news of an accident in a typhoid plant and much more.
Too Tough to Die: Down and Dangerous with the U.S. Marshals by Robert Sabbag
From the bestselling author of Snowblind: A Brief History in the Cocaine Trade comes a mesmerizing account of the U.S. Marshals Service. Established during George Washington’s first term as president, the Marshals Service is charged today with running the controversial Federal Witness Protection Program. 16 pages of photographs.
Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail by Mary Morris
Morris present an unforgettable account of her 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. As in Nothing to Declare, her celebrated travelogue of South America, Morris combines vivid portrayals of people and historical portraits of Soviet events with a more personal journey–her search for roots, family, and her ancestral home in the Ukraine.