When Memory Comes (Memories #1)
By: Saul Friedländer
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winnin…
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1. The Plot Against America
By: Philip Roth
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more
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2. The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
By: Anthea Bell , Władysław Szpilman
4.24
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor,… read more
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- history
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love."-Anthea Bell, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
"We know the story of the Deluge from the Holy Scripture. Why did the first race of men come to such a tragic end? Because they had abandoned God and must die, guilty and innocent alike. They had only…"-Anthea Bell, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
"And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered …"-Anthea Bell, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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- history
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4. Deception (Alex Delaware, #25)
By: Jonathan Kellerman
3.66
Format: 176 pages,
Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help comes too late to save her. On a DVD found… read more
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5. As We Are Now
By: May Sarton
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
So begins May Sarton's short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rag… read more
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6. The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List
By: Mietek Pemper , None , None
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
"Don't thank me for your survival, thank your valiant Stern and Pemper, who stared death in the fac… read more
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7. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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8. Life and Fate
By: Vasily Grossman , Robert Chandler
4.09
Format: 156 pages,
Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnik… read more
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9. Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
By: Janet Malcolm
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green, " a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker write… read more
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10. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
By: Philip Gourevitch
3.36
Format: None pages,
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more
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11. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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12. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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13. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
By: Cea Sunrise Person
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more
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14. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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15. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
16. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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17. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
18. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
19. Transcription
By: Kate Atkinson
3.49
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. S… read more
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- world war ii
- war
"i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"This was how people disappeared from history, wasn't it? They weren't erased, they were explained away."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
20. Terápiás hazugságok
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.07
Format: None pages, None
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9789633551332. A szerző eddigi írásaihoz képest v… read more
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"Nothing's ever worse than to go unnoticed through life."-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
"Do you remember how glad Gepetto was when Pinocchio first danced without strings?"-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
"It's almost impossible for those who have had an intimate relationship to return to a formal one."-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
"How wonderful it was to be loved so much by that selfless and magnificent man. And how awful, unbearable – here Carol cried even louder – to never see him again, to lose him forever!"-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
21. More Than I Love My Life
By: David Grossman
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffer… read more
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22. The Consequence of Anna
By: Kate Birkin
4.16
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, reminiscent of The Thorn Birds, The Light Between Oceans, and Lady Chatt… read more
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"The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth."-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
"A face with no freckles is like a flower with no bloom."-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
"What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?"-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
23. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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24. The Ghost Tattoo
By: Tony Bernard
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of… read more
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25. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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- biography
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"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
26. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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27. Lipstick in Auschwitz: The Unbelievable True Story of a World War II Holocaust Survivor
By: Miriam Nick
4.31
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
She made it through the first selection… but can she survive to see the end of the war?Marysia is o… read more
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28. Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris
By: Heather Dune Macadam
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the p… read more
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29. 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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30. Death's Justice (DS Tomek Bowen #1)
By: Jack Probyn
4.19
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
Southend-on-Sea, Detective Sergeant Tomek Bowen — driven, dogged, and haunted by the death of his … read more
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31. When Memory Comes (Memories #1)
By: Saul Friedländer
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winnin… read more
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- world history
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- czech literature
- world war ii
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