Since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the Evangelical Christians have constituted one of the most powerful interest groups in the USA. They wield veto power over the Republican Party's presidential candidates and decide the outcome of elections across vast areas of the political landscape.
Barbara Victor explores the changes in the American political system that Evangelical Christianity has already wrought and the future changes it is likely to bring in the years ahead. She reveals a complex and contradictory political process in which secular neo-conservatives have allied themselves with fundamentalists to pursue an agenda of aggresion overseas and repression at home.

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In this astonishing exposé of the political and cultural forces now pressing Palestinian women into martyrdom, investigative journalist Victor identifies what she calls "a new level of cynicism" that has destroyed normal, everyday existence in the Middle East, along with the possibility for lasting peace. Tracing the roots of the women's resistance movement back to so-called personal initiative attacks and a brief period of empowerment in the 1980s before religious leaders clamped down, Victor shows how the current generation of Palestinian women has been courted and cajoled into committing these self-destructive and murderous acts.

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Goddess is the book that Madonna and her entourage did not want published. Long before the star could instruct her family and friends not to talk to the author, Barbara Victor spent more than eighteen months in Michigan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, California, New York, and Florida, interviewing Madonna's father and stepmother, her grandmother and other family members, as well as friends, neighbors, business associates, and former lovers and colleagues, some of whom knew the Ciccone family from the time Madonna was a young child, many of whom have never before spoken either on or off the record.

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Describing the huge administrative machine whirling around the Premier Ministre and portaying with detail his closest collaborators, Barbara's book narrates Lionel Jospin's daily routine in a book filled with testimonies. (French only)

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Now in paperback, the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s role in the struggle against Burma’s military junta. Included is a new afterword by the author, which covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998 to Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest in May 2002.

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Every eighteen seconds, a woman in America is beaten by her husband or boyfriend. Yet many of these crimes go unpunished, and even murder convictions often bring shamefully light sentences. In Getting Away with Murder, Raoul Felder and Barbara Victor demonstrate that only a complete reform of society's treatment of both victims and perpetrators can stop the violence.

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This book presents a balanced portrait of the complex, highly intelligent, controversial Christian Arab woman who emerged as the media-savvy PLO spokesperson at the first Middle East peace talks in 1991 and remained highly visible to the signing of the Palestinian-Israeli peace accord on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993. As spokesperson, Ashrawi was responsible for changing the PLO's image from terrorism to diplomacy. Barbara Victor spent 15 months interviewing Ashrawi and her family, friends, and adversaries (both Palestinian and Israeli). The resulting book reads more like a novel than a journalistic report.

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A non-fiction account of the Lebanon War.

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A la terrasse du Fouquet's, Lexie, jeune Américaine venue disperser les cendres de son mari sur les Champs-Elysées, boit un verre. Soudain, une voiture s'arrête. Une femme et un homme en sortent. Tandis que l'homme s'éloigne, la femme se dirige vers Lexie et lui confie le bébé qu'elle tient dans ses bras. Peu après, une bombe explose : attentat kamikaze. Lexie s'éloigne avec l'enfant. Rémy, agent secret, assis lui aussi à la terrasse, a tout vu. Il sait que l'homme qui est sorti de la voiture est Andréas, fils d'un richissime milliardaire saoudien et marié à la sœur d'un homme d'affaires suisse tout-puissant connu pour ses liens avec les terroristes et le blanchiment d'argent... Suspense, courses-poursuites, tentative de kidnapping, romance entre deux êtres fragilisés par leur passé, tous les ingrédients sont réunis pour que ce roman d'aventures à la mécanique implacable tienne le lecteur en haleine jusqu'à la fin.

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This is an entertaining tale of emotional betrayal and political intrigue. Beautiful Coriander Wyatt, a trauma surgeon in a Brooklyn hospital, is devastated when her husband, prestigious bank president Danny Vidal, dies in an airplane explosion. But a further shock awaits her: Adam Singer, special investigator for the Manhattan DA's office, reveals that Danny's arrest for bank fraud had been imminent. Coriander's love for her husband had spanned a decade and survived his involvement in the revolutionary Montonero movement and his subsequent disappearance at the hands of the Argentine government. Her next discovery--that he has left her a bequest of $1 million cash--compels Coriander to question the truth of the life they led together after he resurfaced in New York, when he vowed to abandon his former political connections.

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"The love story behind the headlines. One of the most realistic and passionate accounts of the Arab-Israeli conflict ever told in fiction. Barbara Victor has done her research well. Friends, Lover, Enemies captures the pain and tragedy of a century-old war and the love of a man and a woman tangled up in the violence. Terrific - a compelling read. You'll be hooked from the first time as I was.
Linda Scherzer
(CNN)
Jerusalem Correspondent

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At 39, Gabriella has left the stifling Long Island Mafia behind: a successful photographer, stranger in a foreign land, she will never risk involvement again. Until returning for her ex-husband's funeral, she is forced to confront her past.

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A first novel featuring Maggie Sommers, war correspondent in Lebanon. On the day her closest friend is killed, she falls in love for the first time. The man is an Israeli whose lifestyle, politics and expectations are completely different to her own. He's also already married to someone else.

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