The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
By: Andrew D. Kaufman
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer…
Want to Read $ 8.99"Remember this, Anya,"-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
"Standing quietly in the shade of the literary giant Dostoyevsky, his wife Anna is often erased from the historical record."-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
"His widow Anna dedicated most of her energy in her later years to shaping Dostoyevsky’s legacy and presenting it to the world."-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
"Not only had his wife Anna made Dostoyevsky’s creations possible, but, in a way, Anna was the [female] ideal behind his creations."-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
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1. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By: David McCullough
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
2. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more
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- literature
- russia
- russian literature
3. Runaway
By: Alice Munro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love-between men and women, between friends, betwe… read more
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- literature
4. Son of Hamas
By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
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6. Mutant Message Down Under
By: Marlo Morgan
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Mutant Message Down Underis the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through … read more
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7. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By: Ben Macintyre
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling… read more
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8. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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- literature
"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
9. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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- literature
- audiobook
10. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
11. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
By: Jane Draycott
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson
4.00
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From the “Icelandic Dickens (Irish Examiner),” a writer who “shares the elemental grandeur of Corma… read more
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- literature
- audiobook
"Le lacrime sono fatte come remi, il dolore e la tristezza vogano. Chi piange a un funerale, piange nondimeno la propria morte e quella del mondo, perché tutto muore e alla fine non resta niente. - Lu…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
"Erano i tardi anni Ottanta, a breve sarebbe crollato il muro di Berlino e i pezzi sarebbero stati venduti come souvenir, l'essere umano ha la capacità straordinaria di convertire le minacce, la morte…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
"في الصمت يدخر الذهب، ذاك الذي يبقى صامتا يلتزم بنفسه، يمكنه اكتشاف امور مختلفة، الصمت يتسرب تحت الجلد، يسكن القلب، يخدر القلق، يغمر الغرفة التي يشغلها المرء، يملأ البيت، وفي الخارج يهدر الزمن الحاضر،…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
"En de vogels op de muren zijn zo levendig geschilderd dat de kat uit de buurt, een geel rotbeest dat ons al van nodeloos veel vogels heeft beroofd, de eerste weken herhaaldelijk tegen het gebouw op s…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
15. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
By: Rebecca Boggs Roberts
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a… read more
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- history
- biography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
17. Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
By: Linda Kinstler
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductor… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
By: Andrew D. Kaufman
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer… read more
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- russia
- history
- biography
- russian literature
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- russian history
- audiobook
"Remember this, Anya,"-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
"Standing quietly in the shade of the literary giant Dostoyevsky, his wife Anna is often erased from the historical record."-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
"His widow Anna dedicated most of her energy in her later years to shaping Dostoyevsky’s legacy and presenting it to the world."-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
"Not only had his wife Anna made Dostoyevsky’s creations possible, but, in a way, Anna was the [female] ideal behind his creations."-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
19. American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
By: Victoria Johnson
4.03
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson R… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
By: Svenja O’Donnell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for si… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- russia
- history
- audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
