The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
By: Philip Oltermann
3.52
Format: 212 pages, ebook
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with …
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1. Public Library and Other Stories
By: Ali Smith
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more
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2. The One from the Other (Bernard Gunther, #4)
By: Philip Kerr
3.49
Format: 182 pages,
Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy--featuring the tough, fast-talking, noirish detective Bernie Gunt… read more
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3. The Ghost Writer
By: Philip Roth
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ghost Writerintroduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Grea… read more
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4. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
By: Peter Hook
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in th… read more
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5. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
6. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
7. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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8. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
9. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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10. Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery #1)
By: Robbie Morrison
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city’s wealthiest families is found floating in… read more
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11. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
12. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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13. Attack Warning Red!
By: Julie McDowall
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1… read more
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14. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
15. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)
By: Richard Coles
3.87
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more
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16. Rule, Nostalgia
By: Hannah Rose Woods
3.99
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to… read more
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17. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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18. The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
By: Philip Oltermann
3.52
Format: 212 pages, ebook
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with … read more
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19. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more
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20. Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
By: Timothy Phillips
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye… read more
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21. The Hotel Avocado
By: Bob Mortimer
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more
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