Blockade Diary: Under Siege in Leningrad, 1941-1942
By: Elena Kochina
4.19
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Blockade Diary is a first person account of the Siege of Leningrad from1941-1942 where over a milli…
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1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa
4.26
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"To each his own way of calming down."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
2. The Great War and Modern Memory
By: Paul Fussell
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever writ… read more
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"Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence."-Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
"The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provision for transmitting news like “I have lost my left leg"-Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
"Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends."-Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
3. Sofia Petrovna
By: Lydia Chukovskaya , Aline Werth
4.04
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Every… read more
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- russia
4. Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
By: Georg G. Iggers
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profo… read more
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5. Ru
By: Kim Thúy
4.20
Format: None pages, Broche
Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more
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6. The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
By: Igort , Jamie Richards
4.03
Format: 166 pages,
Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, … read more
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- russia
- nonfiction
7. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
8. What Is History?
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Based on The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at University of Cambridge, January-March… read more
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9. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- nonfiction
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
10. In Defence of History
By: Richard J. Evans
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
E. H. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy su… read more
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11. The Ship of Widows
By: Cathy Porter , None , Helena Goscilo , None
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
"My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war." Thus opens The Ship of Wido… read more
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12. Live and Remember
By: Antonina W. Bouis , Valentin Rasputin , None
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
First published in Russian in 1974, Live and Rememberwas immediately hailed by Soviet critics as a … read more
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13. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
14. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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15. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
16. Dear Wendy
By: Ann Zhao
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more
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"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
17. Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper (Greenhill Sniper Library)
By: Lyudmila Pavlichenko
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English … read more
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18. Blockade Diary: Under Siege in Leningrad, 1941-1942
By: Elena Kochina
4.19
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Blockade Diary is a first person account of the Siege of Leningrad from1941-1942 where over a milli… read more
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19. A Russian War Bride Story
By: Valentina Rushbrook
4.00
Format: 98 pages, None
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20. In a Land of Forest and Darkness: The Holocaust Story of two Jewish Partisans (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)
By: Sara Lustigman Omelinski
4.58
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
“Suddenly two pairs of black boots appeared in the shrubbery near us… I looked up very, very slowly… read more
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21. Late Imperial Russia, 1890-1917 (Seminar Studies)
By: John F. Hutchinson
4.07
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This new interpretation of the final years of Imperial Russia provides a clear and concise introduc… read more
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