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Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan / by Sadeed, Suraya.(CARDINAL)503928; Lewis, Damien.(CARDINAL)341643;

Prologue: Lessons by lamplight (1997) -- pt. 1. Finding hope in a lawless land (1993-1995) -- Help the Afghan Children -- The beginning -- The camel road -- The devil's flowers -- The edge of darkness -- The widow camps -- City of ghosts -- A promise to Fatima -- pt. 2. Under the iron fist of the Taliban (1996-2001) -- The tree of amputations -- It is what it is -- Stoned and flying out here -- The day the Earth turned angry -- Life and love -- Young enough to wed -- New York comes to Kabul -- Singing with the Taliban -- The kindness of strangers -- pt. 3. Battling for hearts and minds (September 2001-present) -- The darkest day -- The wrong side of the border -- The boy who killed the American -- The gift of learning -- Epilogue: Drop by drop a river forms -- Afterword.From her first humanitarian visit to Afghanistan in 1994, Suraya Sadeed has been personally delivering relief and hope to Afghan orphans and refugees, to women and girls in inhuman situations deemed too dangerous for other aid workers or for journalists. Her memoir of these missions is as unconventional as the woman who has lived it. Born the daughter of the governor of Kabul amid beautiful gardens and peace, Suraya fled to the United States with her husband and daughter in the aftermath of the 1979 Soviet invasion. In America, she became a prosperous workaholic, but a personal tragedy led her to question the direction of her life. Now, dedicated to the education and welfare of Afghan women and children, she founded Help the Afghan Children (HTAC) to fund her efforts. Here, she shares her story of passion, courage, and love, painting a complex portrait of Afghanistan and its people that defies every stereotype and invites us all to hope.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Sadeed, Suraya.; Help the Afghan Children (Organization); Women social reformers; Social reformers; Afghan American women; Children; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Children.;

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Operation Pineapple Express : the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan / by Mann, Scott,author.;

Prologue -- Part I: Nezam -- Part II: The dust storm -- Part III: Task Force Pineapple -- Part IV: The long night -- Part V: The dust clears -- Epilogue.An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade-and 500 other Afghans-being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army's first group of American-trained commandos. He passed through Fort Bragg's legendary Q course and served alongside the US Special Forces for over a decade. But Afghanistan's government and army are collapsing, and Nezam is getting threatening texts from the Taliban. The message reached Nezam's former commanding officer, retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann, who can't face the idea of losing another soldier in the long War on Terror. He sends out an SOS to a group of Afghan vets (Navy SEALs, Green Berets, CIA officers, USAID advisors). They all answer the call for one last mission. Operating out of basements and garages, Task Force Pineapple organizes an escape route for Nezam and gets him into hiding in Taliban-controlled Kabul. After many tense days, he braves the enemy checkpoints and the crowds of thousands blocking the airport gates. He finally makes it through the wire and into the American-held airport thanks to the frantic efforts of the Pineapple express, a relentless Congressional aide, and a US embassy official. Nezam is safe, but calls are coming in from all directions requesting help for other Afghan soldiers, interpreters, and at-risk women and children. Task Force Pineapple begins all over again-and ends up rescuing 500 more Afghans from Kabul in the three chaotic days before the ISIS-K suicide bombing. Operation Pineapple Express is a thrilling, suspenseful tale of service and loyalty amidst the chaos of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan." --

Subjects: Personal narratives.; Mann, Scott.; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Afghan War, 2001-2021;

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Breaking the sound barrier / by Goodman, Amy,1957-(CARDINAL)465098; Moynihan, Denis.(CARDINAL)497785;

-- U.S. Muslims still under siege -- Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age -- Luminaries. King's message: stop the War, help the poor -- Bang pots and pans for Molly Ivins -- Harry Belafonte: the lion at eighty -- Howard Zinn: dissent can sometimes be the best form of patriotism -- Clarence Kailin: voices from the Spanish Civil War -- Jimmy Carter: tear down that wall -- John Lennon: imagine peace-a ray of light in dark times -- Studs Terkel: curiosity didn't kill this cat -- Yuri Kochiyama: lessons of internment -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: where do we go from here? -- Utah Phillips has left the stage -- Evo Morales: a view from the South -- Tutu, Obama, and the Middle East -- Pete Seeger carries us on -- Dr. George Tiller didn't have to die -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: the twenty-first century color line -- Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather, Tommy Douglas: health care reform needs an action hero.Introduction: beyond the nine-second soundbite -- War. The art of war and deception -- Resistance to war cannot be jailed -- Clinton to antiwar voters: bring 'em on -- Carlos Arredondo exploding into action -- Hang up on war: claim your telephone tax rebate -- War and censorship at Wilton High School -- Time is right for new Pentagon papers -- The uncounted casualties of war -- Winter soldier marches again -- Body of war -- Whistle-blower points to target list in U.S. attack on hotel -- Threats, lies, and audiotape -- Invasion of the sea-smurfs -- Obama's Afghan trap -- Obama's coalition of the unwilling -- Climate change. Global warring, global warming, global warning -- McKibben: hold politicians' feet to the fire -- From oil wars to water wars -- Weather reports are missing the story -- Don't drink the nuclear Kool-aid -- Lessons of the Exxon Valdez -- Torture. Rumsfeld's mount misery -- Up to Democrats to investigate torture -- Hypocritical oath: psychologists and torture -- High school students teach the president a lession about torture -- Psychologists in denial about torture -- A vote for Mukasey is a vote for torture -- Surviving a CIA "black site" -- Taxi to the dark side -- A torture debate among healers -- Torturers should be punished -- Health care. SICKO: Michael Moore's prescription for change -- Children's healthcare is a no-brainer -- For whom the Bell's palsy tolls -- Nothing to fear but no health care -- Toxins "r" us -- Put single-payer on the table -- Baucus's raucous caucus -- Congre$$ heal thyself -- Health insurance whistle-blower knows where the bodies are buried -- Global economic meltdown -- Ticker tape ain't spaghetti -- Wall Street socialists -- Workers laid off, executives paid off, Bernard Madoff -- Too big to fail, too big to jail -- Produce the note -- Media. Death in Oaxaca -- Shooting the messenger is a war crime -- NAB-bing the election -- CBS silences general dissent -- The dubious Mr. Dobbs -- The FCC's Christmas gift to big media -- The broadcasters' big payday -- The U.S. war on journalists -- Why we were falsely arrested -- Pacifica Radio at sixty: a sanctuary for dissent -- Yoo's views make Philly news -- News from the unreported world -- Timor: Bush has a chance -- To hold terrorists accountable -- Ask Kissinger about Pinochet -- Chiquita's slipping appeal -- Global consensus, not global conquest -- Chevron's pipeline is the Burmese regime's lifeline -- Congo: the invisible war -- Colombia: celebrate the release, not the regime -- Chevron, Shell, and the true cost of oil -- The free market's marked men -- Undo the coup -- Grassroots activism. From the Bayou to Baghdad: mission accomplished? -- Time is running out for brother and sister -- The Orangeburg massacre -- Don't cage dissent -- A tale of two Nobel nations -- Bush and the monkey wrench guy or one man's bid to aid the environment -- Seattle's lessons for London -- Disclosure of "secrets" -- In the '70s didn't destroy the nation -- Two standards of detention -- Obama's military is spying on U.S. peace groups -- Elections. New Vermont senator not standard fare -- Not all is debated in love and war -- Millions without a voice -- As goes Vermont -- Who's paying for the conventions? -- "It's a global election" -- Poverty is the real scandal -- The party police -- Open the debates -- Who gets to vote? -- Election protection -- Obama. Obama strikes a chord with a disaffected Republican -- It's not the man, it's the movement -- Change big donors can believe in -- Organizer in chief -- President Obama can redeem the White House -- Chevron in the White House -- A long train ride --

Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.; Torture; Elections; Mass media; Political activists;

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