Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider's Account of Life Among North Korea's Political Elite
By: Thae Yong-ho
4.41
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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3.68
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2. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
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3. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
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4. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea
By: Jang Jin-sung , Shirley Lee
3.00
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5. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
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6. Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports
By: Guy Lawson
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The inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greate… read more
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By: Quentin Tarantino
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
8. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
9. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
By: Yeonmi Park
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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10. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
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11. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
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12. The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
By: James M Zimmerman
3.90
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The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they pai… read more
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13. Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind
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4.49
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14. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
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4.47
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15. The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
By: Bradley Hope
3.91
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16. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
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4.24
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"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
18. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
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3.84
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"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. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
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3.52
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29. Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider's Account of Life Among North Korea's Political Elite
By: Thae Yong-ho
4.41
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
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"A strange and discordant mix of roles followed. I liked one film I did, The Humbling, because I did it with Barry Levinson. It was based on the novel by Philip Roth, who I met at a party in New York.…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
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