The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.04
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic pas…
Want to Read $ 14.99"At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever."-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever."-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world."-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world."-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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1. De bekeerlinge
By: Stefan Hertmans
3.88
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
In een klein dorp in de Provence wordt sinds mensenheugenis over een pogrom en een verborgen schat … read more
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- historical
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2. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
By: Saul Friedländer
4.24
Format: 870 pages, Hardcover
With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more
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- history
- jewish
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
3. Resistance
By: L.M. Turner
3.41
Format: None pages, ebook
Ryan's relationship-phobic, preferring to live his life from one anonymous hook-up to the next. He … read more
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4. A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
By: Ted Gup
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of … read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
By: Anthea Bell , Władysław Szpilman
4.24
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor,… read more
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- history
- biography
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love."-Anthea Bell, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
"We know the story of the Deluge from the Holy Scripture. Why did the first race of men come to such a tragic end? Because they had abandoned God and must die, guilty and innocent alike. They had only…"-Anthea Bell, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
"And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered …"-Anthea Bell, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
6. As a Driven Leaf
By: Chaim Potok , Milton Steinberg
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction… read more
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7. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
By: Gitta Sereny
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the exte… read more
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- holocaust
8. About This Life
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: "Read. Find ou… read more
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9. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
By: Lisa See
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has… read more
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10. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.04
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic pas… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- jewish
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now i…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much m…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...that the holocaust is so big, the scale of it is so gigantic, so enormous that it becomes easy to think of it as something mechanical. Anonymous. But everything that happened, happened because som…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"And so the picture that I showed her that Sunday, a picture I'd seen countless times since I was a boy, brought home to me for the first time the strangeness of my relationship to the people I was in…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
11. The Kindly Ones
By: Jonathan Littell , Charlotte Mandell
3.94
Format: 229 pages,
Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Timesof London "Oh my human brothers, let m… read more
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12. An Irish Country Courtship (Irish Country #5)
By: Patrick Taylor
4.15
Format: None pages,
Welcome to the colourful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo, where two doctors work hand in hand to me… read more
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13. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- holocaust
- jewish
"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
14. Šuns archipelagas
By: Philippe Claudel
3.76
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Nuo viso likusio pasaulio atskirtoje saloje, pramintoje Šuns archipelagu, gyvena maža bendruomenė, … read more
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15. Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
By: Antonio Franchini
3.90
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Il fuoco che ti porti dentro racconta la vita e la morte di Angela, una donna dal carattere impossi… read more
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"Sua madre è esattamente come lei, odia molti e disprezza tutti."-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"Concorde con lo spirito del nostro tempo, non solo non teme la contraddizione ma disprezza la coerenza."-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"A chiedere scusa ci si educa - e adesso so che è un processo accidentato -, mentre a casa mia non ci si confronta, si grida e si aggredisce, o si sta zitti. Non siamo stati abituati a parlare tra noi…"-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"Conosco la rabbia che nasce dal senso di inferiorità, dall'inadeguatezza. Qualche volta sono stato preso da quella stessa frenesia, ho provato il desiderio di sfregiare con le parole coloro ai quali …"-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
16. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
By: Ariana Neumann
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in …"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feel…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometim…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
17. Original Grace
By: Adam S. Miller
4.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead o… read more
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18. The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
By: Wendy Lower
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A single photograph — an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of … read more
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- history
- jewish
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
19. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
By: Rebecca Frankel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Best History Books of 202… read more
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- biography
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- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
20. The Living and the Lost
By: Ellen Feldman
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the author of Paris Never Leaves You, a gripping story of a young German Jewish woman who retu… read more
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- world war ii
- historical
- war
- holocaust
21. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
By: Gregory J. Wallance
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more
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- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
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