One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother & young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars & sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable & harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. ...

One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother & young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars & sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable & harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. ...

Based on a qualitative study of Hungary & its changing relationship to the 3 million ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring states, this book argues that it is not the ties of ethnicity, but the political interests of kin-state elites that drives states in Eastern Europe to take action on behalf of ethnic kin in neighboring states. ...

Emotional drama follows the lives of three women living in Toronto each going through a personal crisis concerning her father. Olivia (Sophia Loren) is married to the wheelchair-bound though overbearing John (Pete Postlethwaite). Her dreams of a career in art have been quashed for years by John's impeccably practical outlook. Her dreams are given air, however, by Max (Gerard Depardieu) the eccentric French gardener. Natalia (Mira Sorvino) is a photographer whose picture of a crying child in Angola has made her famous. Her father, also a photographer is proud enough to burst but Natalia is haunted by the knowledge that she could not save the child's life. Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) grew up watching her dad beat her mother until one day, he killed her. When he is released from prison, she's willing to throw away her stable family life for a shot at putting him in his grave at the earliest opportunity. ...

The death of an unknown American in Stockholm, though tragic, should be an open-&-shut case, a simple suicide. But when Superintendent Lars Martin Johansson begins to delve beneath the layers of corruption, incompetence & violence strangling the Stockholm police department, he uncovers a complex web of treachery, politics & espionage. ...

The death of an unknown American in Stockholm, though tragic, should be an open-&-shut case, a simple suicide. But when Superintendent Lars Martin Johansson begins to delve beneath the layers of corruption, incompetence & violence strangling the Stockholm police department, he uncovers a complex web of treachery, politics & espionage. ...