Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
By: Masha Gessen
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women beg…
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1. Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
By: Pam Houston , Harriet Fish Backus , Robert G. Walton
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A true pioneer of the West, Harriet Backus writes about her amusing and often challenging experienc… read more
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2. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
By: Jared Diamond
3.77
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies… read more
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3. The Slap
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.86
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet … read more
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4. Visitation
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's gr… read more
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5. Among the Reeds: The true Story of how a Family survived the Holocaust
By: Tammy Bottner
4.21
Format: None pages,
During the dark days of the Holocaust, a Jewish family struggles to survive. When her son was born,… read more
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6. By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
By: Max Eisen
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir b… read more
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7. Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
By: Yang Erche Namu , Christine Mathieu
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed memoir transports us to the remote reaches of the Himalayas, to a place the C… read more
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8. The Painted Veil
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more
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9. Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
By: Masha Gessen
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women beg… read more
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10. She Wanted It All
By: Kathryn Casey
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Trophy wife Celeste Beard wasn't satisfied with a luxurious lifestyle and her rich Austin media mog… read more
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11. The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
By: Edith Hahn Beer , Susan Dworkin , Susan Sarandon , None , None
4.50
Format: None pages,
Edith Hahnwas an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her… read more
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12. Clara's War
By: Clara Kramer
3.49
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On September 1, 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland. Three years later, in the small town of Zolkiew, li… read more
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13. Maude
By: Donna Foley Mabry
3.93
Format: 265 pages,
In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, c… read more
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14. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
By: Lena Andrews
4.00
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more
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15. Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)
By: Emma Hamberg
3.45
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Äntligen har Agneta fallit på plats. Nu vet hon precis var och hur hon vill leva sitt liv: I Saint … read more
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"Ingen ser oss. Och om nån gör det, låt dem!"-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)
"Aa, så är det alltså. Söder är på den här sidan så era snoppar pekar alltså...Vidare, söder ut!"-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)
"- Det finns ju inga garantier. Att satsa allt man har på något som är utan garantier det...Det är svårt"-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)
"- Jag tror att han vill ta min hatt. - Nej, nej han vill servera oss mat. Han vill inte ta din hatt. - Om han rör min hatt kommer jag att slå honom."-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)
16. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
By: Svetlana Alexievich
4.49
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more
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"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
17. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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18. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
By: Sam Quinones
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more
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19. To Kill a Troubadour (Bruno, Chief of Police, #15)
By: Martin Walker
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish na… read more
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20. The Stolen Coast
By: Dwyer Murphy
3.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up i… read more
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"The experience was collective, but not the memory."-Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast
21. Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
By: Bruce Jackson
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
As an accomplished Microsoft executive, Bruce Jackson handles billions of dollars of commerce as it… read more
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