Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
By: Bradley K. Martin
3.85
Format: None pages,
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leaderoffers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless…
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1. Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
By: Mark Bowden
4.15
Format: 680 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming."-Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
2. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
3. This is Paradise!
By: Shaun Whiteside , Hyok Kang , None
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside wor… read more
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- asia
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- biography
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4. The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
By: Victor Cha
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
"A meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy." -Fore… read more
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- history
- historical
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- asia
- nonfiction
5. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
By: Suki Kim
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six… read more
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6. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
By: Bradley K. Martin
3.85
Format: None pages,
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- historical
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- asia
- dystopia
- nonfiction
7. The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
By: Andrei Lankov
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he … read more
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8. 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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9. Just After Sunset
By: Stephen King
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
Internationally bestselling author Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories… read more
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10. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
11. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
By: Paul Fischer
4.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin… read more
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13. Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
By: Yong Kim , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp--a singularly despairing form of tort… read more
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14. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
15. The Tears of My Soul
By: Kim Hyun Hee , Farshad Rezaei
4.03
Format: None pages,
When Korean Air Lines flight 858 exploded in 1987, killing 115 passengers, international law-enforc… read more
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16. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
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17. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
By: Guy Delisle
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most se… read more
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18. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea
By: Jang Jin-sung , Shirley Lee
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent… read more
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19. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more
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20. 'Tis A Memoir (Frank McCourt, #2)
By: Frank McCourt
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the st… read more
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21. The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
By: Don Oberdorfer
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the p… read more
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22. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
By: Blaine Harden
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more
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23. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
By: Neal Gabler
4.47
Format: None pages,
From Neal Gabler, the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century… read more
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24. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
26. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
27. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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28. The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
By: Anna Fifield
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant,… read more
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- biography
- historical
- politics
- asia
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"Kim Jong Chol even found a way to work the Belgian movie star into his school work. "If I had my idea world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more," he wrote in a school project while in B…"-Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
29. Korea: A New History of South and North
By: Victor Cha
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day … read more
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30. Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo
4.30
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and… read more
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31. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
By: Timothy W. Ryback
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more
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