Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo
By: Louise Callaghan
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith …
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1. Het huis van de moskee
By: Kader Abdolah
4.12
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
De familie van Aga Djan is al eeuwenlang de belangrijkste familie in de Iraanse stad Senedjan. Zij … read more
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"Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own."-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
"U selu poput ovoga uvijek se na nešto čekalo: ili da neko dođe, ili da ode, na rođenje nekog djeteta ili na nečiju smrt. Uspavano je selo vazdan iščekivalo kakav događaj, tek bi se tada prenulo."-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
"Shvatam, ali i stolica je dio kina." Homeini ga iznenađeno pogleda, niko nikad s njim nije tako razgovarao. Ali je znao i da je Nosrat fotograf te da dvojicu ljudi uvijek moraš poslušati: kućnog ljek…"-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
"Nessuno teneva più il conto degli anni e non aveva senso contare i mesi. Il tempo era immobile per chi era immerso nel dolore, per chi era morto e per chi piangeva i suoi morti. Anche per chi vangava…"-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
2. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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- animals
"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
3. Burned Alive
By: Souad
4.08
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriag… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with …"-Souad, Burned Alive
4. Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring
By: Bassem Youssef
4.36
Format: 184 pages, ebook
"Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem." … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
By: Rinker Buck
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's "The Oregon Trail" is a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
6. Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
By: Alex Kershaw
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The Liberatorbrings to life the incredible true story of an American doc… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- war
7. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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8. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
By: Åsne Seierstad , Sarah Death
4.17
Format: None pages,
A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put… read more
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9. Queenie
By: Alice Munro
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Unknown Binding
When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a windo… read more
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10. Crooked Seeds
By: Karen Jennings
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more
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11. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
12. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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13. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- adult
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
14. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- adult
15. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
16. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- memoir
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
17. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- adult
18. Adults
By: Emma Jane Unsworth
3.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool mag… read more
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- adult
19. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
By: Deepa Anappara
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of card… read more
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"I like to spy on other families that are sad like ours because I want to find out if they are doing anything different to stop ghosts from clutching their bones."-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
"Just because you read books doesn't mean you know everything," Faiz tells her. "I work. Life's the best teacher. Everyone says so." "Only people who can't read say such things," Pari says."-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
"Bahadur's ma stays close to my ma, but she tiptoes around her as if she's afraid she'll step on Ma's sadness, which must be the same size and shape as Bahadur's ma's sadness, only a lot fresher."-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
"I can smell Runu-Didi on her clothes and her pillow that has acquired a dip in the middle from the weight of her head. If I stare at it long enough, the snatcher or the bad djinn who has caught Didi …"-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
20. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
By: Gaston Dorren
3.80
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it―only one in five peop… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
22. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
By: Rebecca Frankel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Best History Books of 202… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
23. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
By: Ric Prado
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Explosive National Bestseller A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- nonfiction
24. Fever
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.73
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier … read more
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- adult
25. Goodbye, Paris
By: Anstey Harris
3.75
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that som… read more
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- adult
26. Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
By: Corban Addison
4.46
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
By: William Neuman
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2022 and the National Endowment for Democracy Notable Books of … read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
28. All The Young Men
By: Ruth Coker Burks
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
29. The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
By: James Risen
4.13
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. It w… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
30. Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo
By: Louise Callaghan
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- humanities
- nature
31. Por Ladrar Noutra Coisa
By: Guilherme Duarte
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Zaya foi maltratada, abandonada e presa a uma árvore, resgatada e colocada no canto mais recôndito … read more
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