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Αυτό το αστέρι είναι για όλους μας by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΤώρα θα πέφτει απότομα το βράδι.Θα βιάζονται οι άνθρωποι στους δρόμους. Οι γυναίκεςθα κλείνουν τρομαγμένες την πόρτα τους και θ’ αγκαλιάζουν τα παιδιά τους.Μα τα πεινασμένα πρόσωπα των παιδιών ρίχνουν στον τοίχο έναν ίσκιο μαύροσαν τον ίσκιο ενός ψωμιού... -
![The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler]()
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsContains Chandler's essay on the art of detective stories and a collection of 8 classic Chandler mysteries... -
![شرق المتوسط by عبد الرحمن منيف]()
شرق المتوسط by عبد الرحمن منيف
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsهل يمكن أن ترمم إرادة انسان لم تعد تربطه بالحياة رابطة؟ أنا ذاك الإنسان. لا لست انساناً، السجن في أيامه الولى حاول أن يقتل جسدي. لم أكن أتصور أني أحتمل كل ما فعلوه، لكن احتملت. كانت إرادتي هي وحدها التي تتلقى الضربات، وتردها نظرات غاضبة وصمتاً. وظللت كذلك. لم أرهب، لم أتراجع: الماء البارد، ليكن. التعليق لمدة سبعة أيام، ليكن. التهديد بالقتل والرصاص حولي تناثر، ليكن. كانت ارادتي هي التي تقاوم... -
![Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco]()
Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first in a trilogy about a Jewish family who flee Eastern Europe in the early 20th century and settle in Manchester, England. In the cold world of Manchester in 1905 the family Sandberg found the good things of life scarce and the hardships bitter as the chill northern winds. Sarah, the mother. A born survivor stranded in a land of strangers by the vicious tides of persecution... -
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![News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso]()
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico...Categorized as:
politics historical-fiction fiction historical 20th-century literary-fiction book adult -
![Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so devastated. After a long time I ventured out into the streets. Death, cold and heavy, hung in the air. Walls have no value here, doors have been eliminated. No one is certain that they will see another day...Categorized as:
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![Maigret Bides His Time by Georges Simenon]()
Maigret Bides His Time by Georges Simenon
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaigret's longest-running case involves two decades of jewelry heists, a generation of conspiracy, and the revelation of a long-buried secret from World War II. “[Simenon could] turn the simplest of romans policiers into a moving and memorable form of art.” — The Times (London) “[Maigret's investigation] is a bittersweet elegy for the glory days of both thief and cop... -
![Stardust by Robert B. Parker]()
Stardust by Robert B. Parker
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpenser's never had a client like Jill Joyce, the star of TV's Fifty Minutes. She's beautiful, bitchy, sexy--and someone is stalking her. Spenser can hardly blame the would-be assassin...until he means the true meaning of stage fright... -
![Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia]()
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDistrict Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left... -
![La Bête et la belle by Thierry Jonquet]()
La Bête et la belle by Thierry Jonquet
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings156pages. 17,6x10,6x1cm. Poche... -
![Detective Story by Imre Kertész]()
Detective Story by Imre Kertész
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality... -
![The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño]()
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town... -
![India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar]()
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together... -
![From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger]()
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFew gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965... -
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![Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell]()
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, and created American politics as we know it today... -
![Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell]()
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America’s most complex president. In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America’s most controversial political figures... -
![Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie]()
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA gripping new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the crowd of journalists, Cabinet Ministers and well-wishers waiting at Heston airfield... -
![Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes]()
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFeatured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources... -
![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
![Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-38 by Blanche Wiesen Cook]()
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-38 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHistorians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century... -
![De genocidefax by Roxane van Iperen]()
De genocidefax by Roxane van Iperen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereWat zou jij doen als het erop aankomt?Rwanda, januari 1994. Het is voor Roméo Dallaire, generaal van de VN Vredesmissie ter plaatse, glashelder dat als de VN de komende 36 uur niet ingrijpt, de animositeit tussen de Hutu’s en de Tutsi’s zal ontaarden in een ongekend bloedbad...Categorized as:
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![Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]()
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe author combines research and excerpts from Hyde Park papers to illuminate the forty-five-year marriage of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt... -
![The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler]()
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel 'The Big Sleep' in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream... -
![The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by Doris Kearns Goodwin]()
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe noted biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson has written the story of three generations of the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, using records and letters never before made public to present a volume filled with new insights and information about two of America's most powerful families. Black-and-white photographs... -
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![First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas]()
First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class at law school in 1952, no firm would even interview her... -
![Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings, Stewart Cameron]()
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings, Stewart Cameron
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith an introduction read by Max Hastings. A companion volume to his bestselling Armageddon, Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history... -
![Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry]()
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn account of the 1927 Mississippi River flood explores one of the greatest national disasters the United States has ever experienced and its consequences in a comprehensive volume that clearly shows how the flood changed the course of history. 60,000 first printing. Tour... -
![The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler]()
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Napoleonic Wars were nothing if not complex -- an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat... -
![Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper]()
Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war.In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister and conspiracies flourished. The military had a stranglehold on the government... -
![Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel]()
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist...
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