Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
By: Moriz Scheyer
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine l…
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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
2. Rosemary's Baby
By: Ira Levin
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more
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3. Schindler's List
By: Thomas Keneally
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews… read more
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- history
- biography
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
4. Born Survivors
By: Wendy Holden
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would n… read more
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- history
- biography
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
5. Columbine
By: Dave Cullen
4.29
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
6. Thinner
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more
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"Purpurfargade ansiktet"-Stephen King, Thinner
"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."-Stephen King, Thinner
"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."-Stephen King, Thinner
"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."-Stephen King, Thinner
7. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
By: Lucy Adlington
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
8. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
9. The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story
By: Nechama Birnbaum
4.56
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what i… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
10. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
By: Jonathan Freedland
4.37
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
12. The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir
By: Tova Friedman
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
13. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
By: Gwen Strauss
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine… read more
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- biography
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
14. Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
By: Moriz Scheyer
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine l… read more
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- survival
- biography
- memoir
- history
- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- france
- nonfiction
- holocaust
