Lawrence Wright
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"IAt an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...
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Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and fascinating historical parallels--examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny"--
"God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities...
4) Mr. Texas
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English
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"Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbors farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: Not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm and heroically saves the family's daughter and her horse, riding the animal out of their burning barn....
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[2015]
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English
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"... [A] look inside the controversial religion from Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, exploring the psychological impact of blind faith, how the church attracts new followers and keeps hold of its A-list celebrity devotees."--Container.
7) Going clear
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a legitimate (and legally acknowledged) religion; its...
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Debate
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from a more peaceful time in 1990s Israel to the recent beheadings of reporters by ISIS.With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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In his new book, Saints & Sinners, Lawrence Wright takes us into the lives of six contemporary religious leaders through extensive interviews with them, with their adherents, and with their critics. A skeptical journalist seeking in part to learn something about his own beliefs, Wright sets out to explore the ways in which the struggle with faith has shaped each of these men and women. The six are:. Walker Railey, the ambitious rising star of Dallas's...
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B
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2021.
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Español
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In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees.
Un thriller medico escrito antes de la pandemia sobre la llegada de un virus letal que arrasa con la población mundial, de la mano del ganador del Premio Pulitzer, Lawrence Wright. Cuando el epidemiólogo...
15) The siege
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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FBI special agent, Anthony "Hub" Hubbard and U.S. army genderal, William Deverezux battle a group of terrorists in New York City.
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Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"In 2006, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright staged "My Trip to al-Qaeda, " a one-man play that explored the moral dilemmas he encountered while researching his bestselling book, "The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11." Culled from more than 600 interviews and 4,100 pages of notes, the play integrated his journalistic insights with personal stories, live footage, and photos of the places he visited during his extensive research....
17) The siege
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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English
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"When a crowded city bus blows up in Brooklyn and a campaign of terror begins to make its mark on the streets of New York, its up to FBI special agent Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard and U.S. Army General William Devereaux to find out who's reponsible"--Container.