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Based on over six million internal CIA documents and years in the making, The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture was originally released in 2014 and details secret prisons, prisoner deaths, and interrogation practices by the CIA on detainees in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The report also examines charges that the CIA deliberately deceived elected officials about the extent and legality of its operations.

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The Italy Letters is a slim, powerful shot of literary fantasia from one of America''s best-kept secrets. Long a cult favourite, visionary writer Vi Khi Nao weaves an unforgettable and highly distinctive story of a love affair suffused with longing, erotic passion, and heartbreak - all while painting a picture of the scabby underside of Las Vegas. This beautiful and mesmerizing novel by a queer Vietnamese American writer is a brilliant and unclassifiable work of fiction that takes the form of a series of letters written by the unnamed narrator to her lover in Italy... part of a stream-of-consciousness narrative that is by turns poignant, bawdy, funny, and disturbing - and often beautifully poetic. The story touches, obliquely but powerfully, on the immigrant experience, LGBTQIA identity, social class in the academy, writing, betrayal, sex, and homesickness. The narrator is in the process of caring for her declining mother, who is both deteriorating in health but remains imperious - not

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Two young lawyers, Ben and Boris, arrive in the New Orleans public defender''s office determined to represent those most in peril: kids who are to be prosecuted as adults. When 16-year-old Robert is arrested and charged with murder, the two set about constructing his defense, with Ben taking the lead. But years of heavy cases spark a burning recklessness in Ben. He does what he believes - what he knows - must be done. And in his fervour to absolve Robert, Ben spins a web to bend the narrative in his favour, one in which everyone is expendable - even those his young client loves most. A riveting story of loyalty and grief that cross-examines an unjust criminal legal system, Seraphim combines the grit and realism of Richard Price''s Clockers with the empathy and psychological complexity of Michael Chabon''s The Yiddish Policemen''s Union.

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