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Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It
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Include books by the same authorA Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
E. Benjamin Skinner · 366 pages
There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. In this account of contemporary slavery, journalist Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told--and heard. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, Skinner has produced a moving reportage on one of the gr
Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
Lydia Cacho · 271 pages
Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reportin
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Siddharth Kara · 320 pages
"Across eighteen countries and six continents, Siddharth Kara has witnessed firsthand the sale of human beings into slavery, interviewed more than five hundred slaves of all kinds, and confronted some of those who trafficked and exploited them. In this book he draws on his background in finance and law to provide the first ever business and economic analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focu
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn · 307 pages
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold
One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
Whitney Alyse Webb · 544 pages
Renting Lacy: A Story Of America's Prostituted Children
Linda Smith · 168 pages
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
Shyima Hall · 240 pages
This biography traces the life of Shyima Hall, a domestic slave smuggled from Egypt to Orange County by the family her parents sold her to at age eight. The coauthor is Lisa Wysocky. The author, Shyima Hall was eight when her parents sold her into slavery. In Egypt's capitol city of Cairo, she lived with a wealthy family and serve them eighteen hours a day, seven days a week. When she was ten,
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros · 309 pages
A plague of everyday violence lies beneath the surface of the world's poorest communities. Common violence-- like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and other brutality-- has become routine and relentless. Basic public justice systems in the developing world have descended into a state of utter collapse. Haugen and Boutros offer a searing account of how we got here-- a
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
Kathryn Bolkovac, Cari Lynn · 240 pages
"When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac was shipped out to Bosnia, where DynCorp had been contracted to support the UN peacekeeping missi
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Mark Binelli · 333 pages
"The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer · 448 pages
The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story
Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffman
City of Lies
Ramita Navai · 301 pages
"Rich, absorbing, and exotic, City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city's southern districts. Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the stat
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
Noam Scheiber · 384 pages
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Madhumita Murgia · 320 pages
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Seth Mnookin · 429 pages
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them. In this searching exposé, the recent hysteria over childhood vaccinations and their alleged link to autism becomes a cautionary tale of bad science amplified by media sensationalism.
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
Wesley Lowery · 256 pages
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the magnitud
Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
Steve Inskeep · 294 pages
Analyzes the growing metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan, including the importance of regional stability to American security interests, the terrorist bombing of a Shia religious procession, and the challenging religious, ethnic, and political divides.
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
Stephanie Nolen · 384 pages
Twenty-eight anecdotal stories that chronicle men, women, and children involved in every aspect of the African AIDS crisis.
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Benjamin Lorr · 328 pages
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
David K. Shipler · 596 pages
Examines the relationships, mutual images, and stereotypes that have evolved between Arabs and Jews in Israel and in territorities under Israeli control.
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
Jay Bahadur · 316 pages
Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 BC. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Getting there from North America is a 45-hour, 5-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bossaso (on the Gulf of Ad
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Gary Younge · 312 pages
"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-bo