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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
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B. Proudew by Irena Dousková
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHelena Součková, an eight-year-old schoolgirl in a small provincial town, deals not only with the uniquely dismal side of life in communist Czechoslovakia, but also with more than a few universal issues, like death, school dinners, guilt, obtuse teachers, betrayal, love, Jewishness, annoying little brothers, almost absent fathers, cruel classmates, bogus adults, eerie daydreams and nightmares... -
![Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery]()
Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They've returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood... -
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Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures... -
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![The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau]()
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character... -
![Die Schule der Diktatoren by Erich Kästner]()
Die Schule der Diktatoren by Erich Kästner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsهذه مسرحيه، وإذا أردتم دقه الوصف فهى مأساه هزليه؛ انقلاب فاضل يزيح ديكتاتوريه فاسده من الطريق، ثم يقتلون المتمرد، وترسخ الديكتاتوريه الجديده أقدامها... -
![No Onions Nor Garlic by Srividya Natarajan]()
No Onions Nor Garlic by Srividya Natarajan
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmandeep, Murugesh, Rufus and Sundar are bucks who talk dirty for the same reason that they remove the mufflers from their motorcycle exhausts— it makes them feel like men. Like libertines. To their hormonal despair, when Professor Ram stages his remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream at their college fest, he casts these four as fairies... -
![Finding Myself by Toby Litt]()
Finding Myself by Toby Litt
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDear Friend, How would you like to come--this August--and stay, completely free, in a lovely seaside house I've rented? Good food and plenty of alcohol will also be provided, gratis. But (you knew there'd be a but) afterwards you must allow me to write up the events of the month in a semi-fictionalised form. (In other words: you promise not to sue... -
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Zmierenie alebo Dobrodružstvo pri obžinkoch by Ján Palárik
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDej tejto veselohry sa zakladá na princípe inkognita (v rámci ktorého vystupuje niekto v podobe niekoho iného). Ľudovít Kostrovický sa má oženiť podľa vôle otca a dávnej zmluvy s grófkou Elisou Hrabovskou. Prichádza si ju obzrieť práve na obžinky spolu s jeho priateľom inžinierom Rohonom. Chce Elisu lepšie spoznať a až potom sa rozhodnúť, či je preňho dobrá... -
![The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth]()
The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own... -
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Kobane Calling by Zerocalcare
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKOBANE CALLING is the autobiographical memoir of a young Italian cartoonist, writing and drawing under the nom-de-plume Zerocalcare, who volunteers with the Rojava Calling organization and heads into the Middle East to support and observe the Kurdish resistance in Syria as they struggle against the advancing forces of the Islamic State... -
![The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel]()
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratings‘There’s no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.’ - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut EconomicsFor decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries...Categorized as:
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![The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir of a Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992 by Riad Sattouf]()
The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir of a Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992 by Riad Sattouf
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe penultimate installment in the bestselling French graphic memoir series—hailed as “exquisitely illustrated” and “irresistible”—covering the years of Riad Sattouf’s adolescence, from 1987-1992.In the fourth volume of The Arab of the Future, little Riad has grown into a teenager... -
![Deutschland Erinnerungen Einer Nation by Neil MacGregor, Martin Daske]()
Deutschland Erinnerungen Einer Nation by Neil MacGregor, Martin Daske
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA major new series from the makers of "A History of the World in 100 Objects," exploring the fascinating and complex history of Germany from the origins of the Holy Roman Empire right up to the present day. Written and presented by Neil MacGregor, it is produced by BBC Radio 4, in partnership with the British Museum... -
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![Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer]()
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life—and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.” — Patrick Radden Keefe “[A] searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account... -
![Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified...Categorized as:
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human... -
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky’s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world’s leading intellectuals of the modern era. Now, for the first time, Peter R... -
![I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet]()
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel. . . .” For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for The Washington Post who was born and educated in Germany, has had to balance the two sides of her upbringing – Muslim and Western... -
![Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman]()
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
![The Girl Who Escaped Isis: This Is My Story by Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffmann]()
The Girl Who Escaped Isis: This Is My Story by Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffmann
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summer holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of northern Iraq — and what happened next was unimaginable. Her village was an ISIS target.ISIS jihadists murdered the men and boys, including her father and brother, before taking Farida and the other women prisoner... -
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[...]: Poems by Fady Joudah
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.Fady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with, “I am unfinished business,” articulating the ongoing pathos of the Palestinian people. A rendering of Joudah’s survivance, [.. -
![What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather]()
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” —Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on—and writing passionately about—what it means to be an American...Categorized as:
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![Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn]()
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared...Categorized as:
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![How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa]()
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA global publishing moment, with rights sold in 15 territories: USA (HarperCollins), Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish...Categorized as:
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![The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley]()
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEurope is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley...Categorized as:
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![The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher]()
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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![The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler]()
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive changeDrawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011... -
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Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZionist Colonialism in Palestine traces the historical roots of the Zionist movement and the uprooting of the ancient Palestinian Arab people from their ancestral homeland...Categorized as:
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![Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart]()
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our timeIn Peter Beinart’s view, one story has long dominated Jewish communal that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of sacred Jewish tradition and history, and also warps our understanding of modern history...
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