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George Weah Taking on 170-Year Challenges of Liberia

George Weah: Liberia's most celebrated world icon and elected president is on a mission. He positions himself to take on 170-year social inequality, economic, political, corrupt, and other institutional challenges of Liberia. Would Weah accomplishes his vision for Liberia?

Taken by the Biker Gang 3 - Taken by the Biker Gang Book 3 - Ascension

My name's Robin Teller, and this is the final part of my story, of my transformation from shy virgin to Viper Doll... After my initiation, I'm sore and bruised...but I've somehow never felt more alive. David tells me that there's just one more step for me to take before I can become a Viper Doll...his …

Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918

A World for the Taking

It was a time when one of the most powerful rulers in the world wasn't a governmentit was a corporation. It's official name was ''The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies.'' Some simply called it ''John Company,'' others ''Company Bahadur.'' But most people knew it as the Honourable East India Company.It …

The Unexpected Spy

A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs Reads like the show bible for Homeland only her story is real. -Alison Stewart, WNYC A thrilling tale...Walder's fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America's …

The Road Not Taken

'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book Review In this biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the model for Greene's The Quiet American, Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a 'hearts and minds' diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was …

Russian and East European Studies - Roads Not Taken

A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891–1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his former disciples led American diplomacy into the Cold War, Bullitt became …

Tall, Dark, and Texan 2 - Taking the Score

Paying down her sister’s debts has left personal assistant Emma Strickland with little more than the thrift store suit on her back. And as if the suckfest couldn’t get worse, she’s forced to get a second job as a waitress to support herself and her cat. At a strip club. Her uptight, sexy-as-hell boss Brody …

The Visitations of the County of Surrey

Taking Baghdad

TAKING BAGHDAD is one of the few histories of Operation Iraqi Freedom written by a Marine who actually served in the war. It covers the twenty-two-day push to Baghdad in 2003, which was was one of the most efficient conflicts in the annals of warfare.