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…
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1. 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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"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
2. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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3. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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4. The Collaborator of Bethlehem (Omar Yussef Mystery #1)
By: Matt Rees
3.66
Format: None pages,
"Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon it human… read more
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5. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
6. The Orphan Collector
By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
4.24
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more
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"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector
"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector
7. City of Laughter
By: Temim Fruchter
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more
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8. The Museum of Failures
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.13
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more
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"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
9. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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10. The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
By: Sara Leibovits
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like we waited in the… read more
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11. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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12. In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
By: Amy Schneider
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! —and a… read more
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"I deprived myself of a joy in my life, because it was a joy only girls were allowed to feel. Life already seemed to be full of joys that one wasn't allowed to feel, so adding one more to the pile cam…"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
13. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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14. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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15. 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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16. The Goddess of Warsaw
By: Lisa Barr
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more
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17. Goyhood
By: Reuven Fenton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Funny, poignant, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between est… read more
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18. A Caribbean Heiress in Paris (Las Leonas, #1)
By: Adriana Herrera
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Paris, 1889The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe… read more
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19. Those People
By: Louise Candlish
3.30
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense … read more
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20. 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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21. A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
By: Rachelle Unreich
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the… read more
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22. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
By: Elizabeth White
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands o… read more
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"People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions"-Elizabeth White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
23. Your Presence Is Mandatory
By: Sasha Vasilyuk
3.52
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more
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24. The Faculty Lounge
By: Jennifer Mathieu
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more
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25. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
By: Maureen Callahan
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more
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26. With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic
By: A. Ashley Hoff
3.89
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age—until publ… 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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28. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
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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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
30. Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times and USA Today Nonfiction Bestseller! Authors of the acclaimed Killing books,… read more
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31. Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and A Daughter's Quest for Justice
By: Joanne Intrator
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator’s father poses two unsettling “Are you tough enough? Do they… read more
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