Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
By: Benjamin Balint
4.23
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret opera…
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1. The Power of the Dog
By: Thomas Savage , Annie Proulx
4.18
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers now includes an afterword… read more
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"Fate punishes the proud, and dashes hope"-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog
"He taught me that if you’ve got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete."-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog
2. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- jewish
"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
3. Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1)
By: Jean-Luc Bannalec
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is fou… read more
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- crime
4. Spoon River Anthology
By: Edgar Lee Masters
4.05
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
5. Murder of a Lady (Dr. Hailey, #12)
By: Anthony Wynne
5.00
Format: 176 pages,
Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of … read more
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- crime
6. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą
By: Bruno Schulz
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
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7. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
9. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
10. Monsters
By: Barry Windsor-Smith
4.14
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he wa… read more
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11. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- history
- crime
- biography
- nonfiction
12. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- history
- crime
- biography
- nonfiction
14. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
15. Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
By: Joseph Luzzi
3.77
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of uneart… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
16. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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- history
- crime
- biography
- nonfiction
17. The Golem of Brooklyn
By: Adam Mansbach
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more
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- judaism
- jewish
18. True Life: Poems
By: Adam Zagajewski
4.06
Format: 78 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.. . . I think I sough… read more
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- poland
19. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
20. Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: James Marcus
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
21. 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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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
22. Poland, a Green Land
By: Aharon Appelfeld
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents’ Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with the… read more
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- judaism
- poland
- jewish
23. Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
By: Michael Korda
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in M… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
24. The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I
By: Steven Ujifusa
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- jewish
25. Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II
By: Judy Rakowsky
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
" Jews in the Garden reads like the best of narrator-guided murder-mysteries. But in this case the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- poland
26. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)
By: Alan Bradley
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more
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27. Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
By: Benjamin Balint
4.23
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret opera… read more
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- history
- biography
- jewish
- judaism
- poland
- nonfiction
- crime
28. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
29. Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930–1949
By: Toby Knobel Fluek
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Available again for the first time in decades, this jewel of a memoir is the poignant story of a yo… read more
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- history
- poland
- jewish
30. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levi… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
