Discovering Joy: Ten Years in North Korea
By: Joy Yoon
3.43
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
A surprising discovery in the unlikliest of places ... Joy Yoon and her husband spent more than ten…
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1. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.95
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the a… read more
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"Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
2. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
By: David John , Hyeonseo Lee
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorshi… read more
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"He’d valued his dignity more than his own life."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
3. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
By: Charles Robert Jenkins
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his po… read more
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4. Wrong Place Wrong Time
By: David P. Perlmutter
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
After a reckless night out and losing everything I had worked so hard for, I leave memories of a Lo… read more
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5. 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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6. Mad Girl
By: Bryony Gordon
2.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager … read more
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7. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
8. The Charity Shop Detective Agency (The Charity Shop Detective Agency, #1)
By: Peter Boland
3.94
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
Fiona, Sue and Daisy, three retired ladies who volunteer at the local charity shop, Dogs Need Nice … read more
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9. How To Build A Car
By: Adrian Newey
4.48
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but ne… read more
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10. The Secret Prisoner: Diary Of A Prisoner
By: Daniel hockey
4.17
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
The Secret Prisoner Book is a first hand insight into what prison is like in the UK. This truely is… read more
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11. French Foreign Legion Commando
By: Harry Dobson
4.38
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
A link to my website that contains a few pictures and blogs from my military LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA -T… read more
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12. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
13. In a Single Moment
By: Imogen Clark
4.09
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy bestselling author Imogen Clark comes a story of two families, two babies and one… read more
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14. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
By: Masaji Ishikawa
4.28
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the wo… read more
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"I want to give this food to my family in North Korea. But I can’t. So I entrust it to the seagulls. And in my heart, they carry it off to my family. And I weep."-Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
15. All Good Things
By: Amanda Prowse
3.88
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
In this captivating story from the bestselling author of Picking up the Pieces, Daisy has always en… read more
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16. Mistakes were Made
By: Andy C Wareing
4.30
Format: None pages, None
2020 turned out to be a year most of the world would spend in pajamas. And that’s what we should ha… read more
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17. The Islanders
By: Caroline Mitchell
4.05
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
She thinks the island will keep her safe—she is wrong. Traumatised by the death of a child in her … read more
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18. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails
By: Vanessa Frake
4.33
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more
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19. Life in the Max
By: Tom Hill
4.35
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
Life in the Max is drawn from over 32 years as a prison officer. Serving at one of only six categor… read more
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20. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
By: Kelly Harms
3.84
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. “A laugh-o… read more
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"And yes, it makes me crazy to think that my kids can go days -- or maybe weeks-- without me. If I'm not needed, if I'm not busy, if I'm not an overstretched, overwhelmed, under-slept, underpaid singl…"-Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
21. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
By: Juliet Annan
4.05
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more
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22. The Killing Fields of Cambodia: Surviving a Living Hell
By: Sokphal Din
4.24
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
If you like an authentic, powerful narrative from the horrors of the Killing Fields in Cambodia, th… read more
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23. It's not as bad as it looks
By: Andy C Wareing
4.28
Format: None pages, None
“Wait—What? You are where now?” This is the phrase that has come to haunt us. In this funny, whimsi… read more
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24. Legion of the Lost: The True Experience of an American in the French Foreign Legion
By: Jaime Salazar
3.67
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
"Since 1831, the French Foreign Legion has become a renowned symbol of discipline and solidarity. M… read more
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25. The Reluctant Expat: Part Three - Getting Ahead
By: Alan Laycock
4.32
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
GETTING AHEAD is the third instalment of THE RELUCTANT EXPAT, Alan Laycock’s light-hearted account … read more
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26. Black Girl from Pyongyang
By: Monica Macias
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroun… read more
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27. Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl
By: Zarifa Adiba
4.27
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
A passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroa… read more
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28. Daily Life in North Korea
By: Andrei Lankov
3.65
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
From the surprisingly placid criminal gangs of Pyongyang, to the rules of decorum that apply to wom… read more
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29. Discovering Joy: Ten Years in North Korea
By: Joy Yoon
3.43
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
A surprising discovery in the unlikliest of places ... Joy Yoon and her husband spent more than ten… read more
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30. American in North Korea: Insights from a Day in Pyongyang
By: Justin Hughes
4.14
Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition
Justin, a young American traveler, ventures to North Korea amid high tensions between the US and th… read more
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31. Consumed: A Sister’s Story
By: Arifa Akbar
3.69
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. When Arifa Akbar di… read more
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