Alice’s Book: How the Nazis stole my grandmothers cookbook
By: Karina Urbach
3.97
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
By: Denis Avey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to… read more
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2. Sie kam aus Mariupol
By: Natascha Wodin
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Wenn du gesehen hattest, was ich gesehen habe" - Natascha Wodins Mutter sagte diesen Satz immer wi… read more
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3. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
4. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
5. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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- audiobook
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
6. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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7. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … 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. Salonfähig
By: Elias Hirschl
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Was, wenn man sich ein perfektes Leben wie eine zweite Haut überziehen könnte? Willkommen bei Austr… read more
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10. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year
By: Joanna Nell
3.77
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more
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11. Iowa: Ein Ausflug nach Amerika
By: Stefanie Sargnagel
4.18
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
2022 tauscht Stefanie Sargnagel widerstrebend das bequeme Wiener Sofa gegen ein Flugticket in die U… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
12. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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13. Zauber der Stille
By: Florian Illies
4.11
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
Mit Florian Illies kann man Vergangenheit plötzlich als Gegenwart erleben. In »Zauber der Stille« b… read more
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14. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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- history
- audiobook
15. One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
By: Barbara Winton
3.85
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonha… read more
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16. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- holocaust
17. The Glass House
By: Anne Buist
3.89
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more
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18. Ein unendlich kurzer Sommer
By: Kristina Pfister
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Feinfühlig, atmosphärisch und intensiv: Ein Roman über den einen Sommer, der alles verändert. Wo… read more
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19. I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
By: Julian Borger
4.28
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering t… read more
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- history
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20. The Deck
By: Fiona Farrell
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the f… read more
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21. The Wartime Book Club
By: Kate Thompson
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey … read more
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22. Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
By: Keren Blankfeld
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of D… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Wild Date Palm
By: Diane Armstrong
3.99
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set… read more
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24. Death of a Foreign Gentleman (Stephen Minter #1)
By: Steven Carroll
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a ser… read more
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25. Stella
By: Takis Würger
3.63
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Es ist 1942. Friedrich, ein stiller junger Mann, kommt vom Genfer See nach Berlin. In einer Kunstsc… read more
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"»Ich liebe sie heute noch.« »Aber ihre Schwächen.« »Für jede einzelne.«"-Takis Würger, Stella
26. Gruß aus der Küche
By: Ingrid Noll
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Irma, 40, hat aus dem Gasthaus »Zum Hirschen« die beliebte vegetarische »Aubergine« gemacht. Die kr… read more
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27. Content
By: Elias Hirschl
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Die Welt geht unter. Doch bis dahin arbeitet die Erzählerin in Elias Hirschls neuem Roman in der Co… read more
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28. Alice’s Book: How the Nazis stole my grandmothers cookbook
By: Karina Urbach
3.97
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour "Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also r… read more
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29. Reichskanzlerplatz
By: Nora Bossong
3.63
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Nora Bossong zeichnet in ihrem neuen Roman das intensive Porträt der Frau, die Magda Goebbels wurde… read more
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