War: Tales of Conflict and Strife
By: Roald Dahl
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories …
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1. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
2. The Revenant
By: Michael Punke
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more
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"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
3. Birdsong
By: Sebastian Faulks
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more
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- classics
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4. Immortality
By: Milan Kundera
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
5. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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6. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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8. Paradise
By: Toni Morrison
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more
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9. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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10. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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11. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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12. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And w… read more
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13. All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque , A.W. Wheen
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World W… read more
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14. Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
By: Lian Hearn
2.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale flo… read more
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15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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16. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
17. The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
By: Eleanor Herman
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roilin… read more
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18. Acts of God
By: Kanan Gill
3.92
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett… read more
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19. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
20. War: Tales of Conflict and Strife
By: Roald Dahl
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories … read more
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