I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return
By: Anna Goldenberg
4.00
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A defiant memoir from contemporary Europe: In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s great-grandparents and…
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1. The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
By: Edmund de Waal
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned li… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?"-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
2. Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs
By: Manny Steinberg
4.51
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
Outcry - Holocaust Memoirs, a Profoundly Moving Autobiography Mendel (Manny) Steinberg spent his… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
3. I Escaped from Auschwitz
By: Rudolf Vrba
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author describes his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz and his daring escape. read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
4. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
By: Anthony Doerr
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
5. The Marriage of Opposites
By: Alice Hoffman
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Dovekeepersand The Museum of Extraordinary Things:… read more
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- audiobook
6. The Reluctant Heiress
By: Eva Ibbotson
3.17
Format: None pages,
Spring, 1922 Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow h… read more
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7. A History of the World in 6 Glasses
By: Tom Standage
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
By: Julian Rubinstein
4.00
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Elmore Leonard meets Franz Kafka in the wild, improbably true story of the legendary outlaw of Buda… read more
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9. Gilgamesh
By: Joan London
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-west of Australia, are vis… read more
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10. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
By: Mark Bramhall , Michael Finkel
3.90
Format: 5 pages, Audio CD
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable tr… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"I read. That's my form of travel."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
"The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
"He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
"There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
11. Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free
By: Joel Fuhrman
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Why do some of us get sick with greater frequency than others? What makes us more susceptible to il… read more
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12. Cowboy and His Elephant
By: Malcolm MacPherson
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the late 1980s, a female baby elephant was born on the plains of Southern Africa. In a "cull," h… read more
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13. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
14. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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- history
- memoir
- audiobook
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
15. Regen: Eine Liebeserklärung
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
3.59
Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition
Eine ebenso mutige wie sehr persönliche Erzählung, ein literarisches Spiel an der Grenze zwischen B… read more
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- german literature
16. Very Cold People
By: Sarah Manguso
3.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more
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- audiobook
"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
17. Sie sagt. Er sagt.
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
4.17
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
Katharina Schlüter, eine erfolgreiche TV-Moderatorin, behauptet, ihr ehemaliger Geliebter habe sie … read more
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18. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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- audiobook
"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
19. The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II Book 1)
By: Limor Regev
4.46
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66. January, 1945 . … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
20. Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel
By: Ruth Gruber
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inside of Time is a memoir that comprises the vivid recollections of Ruth Gruber, award-winning wri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
21. Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
By: Cassandra King Conroy
4.35
Format: 400 pages, ebook
“Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I’ve read.” — M… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
22. The Secret of Snow
By: Viola Shipman
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As comforting and familiar as a favorite sweater, Viola Shipman's first holiday novel is a promise … read more
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- audiobook
"I had forgotten the way that the earth takes on another form in the winter. It pulls out a coat of white from its seasonal closet to beautify its wardrobe. But winter is smart. It is actually distrac…"-Viola Shipman, The Secret of Snow
"I watch the coffee drip, thinking of not just how fleeting time is but how the truly magical moments in our lives are the simplest, and how we let them pass without a thought. We foolishly believe th…"-Viola Shipman, The Secret of Snow
23. Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
By: Tania Crasnianski
3.85
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Borm… read more
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- history
- biography
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
24. Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
By: James McMurtry Longo
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsbur… read more
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- history
- biography
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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26. Auschwitz Prisoner 31119: The Shocking True Story of a World War II Holocaust Survivor
By: Yitzchak Borowsky
3.88
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
She was liberated from hell on Earth. But will she ever be free from Auschwitz?Poland, 1943. Dark s… read more
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- history
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
27. The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust
By: Harry Lenga
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heat… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
28. The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice
By: Deborah Vadas Levison
3.98
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust – in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration c… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
29. I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return
By: Anna Goldenberg
4.00
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A defiant memoir from contemporary Europe: In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s great-grandparents and… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- judaism
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
30. The Dead Years: Holocaust Memoirs (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)
By: Joseph Schupack
4.48
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
A Jewish teenager. Four concentration camps. His family and home lost forever. This is his unforget… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
31. Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
By: Inara Verzemnieks
4.27
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Inara Verzemnieks was raised by her Latvian grandparents in Washington State, among expatriates who… read more
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- history
- biography
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- world war ii
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