A World of Trouble | The White House and the Middle East – from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler explores American Presidents’ affairs in the Middle East. The book is compulsively readable, free of cant and ideology, and rich in insight about the very human challenges a new president will face as he or she tries to restore America’s standing in the region.
Treachery | Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain by Harry Chapman Pincher reveals decades of espionage from within British intelligence. Pincher makes a compelling new case that the head of Britain’s own counterintelligence and security agency was a double agent.
Relentless Pursuit | A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America by Donna Foote follows four Teach for America recruits as they enter a Los Angeles high school. With little training and experience, these four will be asked to produce academic gains in students who are among the most disadvantaged in the country.
Confessions | An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo tells the author’s story during a difficult part of China’s history. With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of “Liberation” in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after.
Bliss by O.Z. Livaneli, is a compelling novel examining traditional and modern-day principles of family honor.
