Up Like a Bird: The Rise and Fall of an IRA Commander
By: Brendan Hughes
4.25
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Brendan Hughes’ gritty memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Provisional IRA in the early…
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By: Ludo Martens
4.02
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
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2. The Blanket Men
By: Richard O'Rawe
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
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3. The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
By: Lev Grossman
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the r… read more
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4. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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5. Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh
By: Toby Harnden
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
South Armagh was described as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland Secretar… read more
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6. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
7. Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
By: Hugh Howey
4.22
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived… read more
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8. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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9. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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10. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
11. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
12. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.54
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more
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"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
13. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
By: Bill Browder
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more
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14. 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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15. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
By: Aoife Moore
3.82
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more
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16. The Cartel: The shocking true crime story of Ireland's Kinahan crime cartel
By: Stephen Breen
3.93
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War
By: Richard O'Rawe
4.02
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more
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18. Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords
By: Nicola Tallant
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
COCAINE COWBOYS tells the story of Ireland’s love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore … read more
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19. War and an Irish Town (Pluto Classics)
By: Eamonn McCann
4.11
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first… read more
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20. Up Like a Bird: The Rise and Fall of an IRA Commander
By: Brendan Hughes
4.25
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
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21. Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle
By: Shane Ross
3.42
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first … read more
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