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A Man by Oriana Fallaci
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives." (quote from the book)The book is a pseudo-biography about Alexandros Panagoulis written in the form of a novel. Fallaci had an intense romantic relationship with Panagoulis... -
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Nervous People and Other Satires by Mikhail Zoshchenko
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTypical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense... -
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Letters from Thailand by Botan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the original Thai version of Letters from Thailand appeared in Bangkok in 1969, it was promptly awarded the SEATO Prize for Thai Literature. This new English translation reveals it as one of Thailand's most entertaining and enduring modern novels, and one of the few portrayals of the immigrant Chinese experience in urban Thailand...Categorized as:
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![Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson]()
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet... -
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![Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan by Anna Kavan]()
Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan by Anna Kavan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection of Anna Kavan’s short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1968... -
![The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein]()
The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRobert Anson Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction"... -
![The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick, Mark Hurst]()
The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick, Mark Hurst
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHere's a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular science fiction writers of today. This anthology is full of both new and classic ideas, brimming over with wit and the author's natural sense of fun...Categorized as:
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![The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway]()
The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExperience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain.In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, in order to see friends and follow bullfighting events... -
![An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin]()
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life...Categorized as:
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![Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham]()
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology...Categorized as:
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![A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin, Tom Hanks]()
A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin, Tom Hanks
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon... -
![Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro]()
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate... -
![Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold]()
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries... -
![The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes]()
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly—or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years... -
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![The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk]()
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to... -
![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart...Categorized as:
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![Brave Men by Ernie Pyle]()
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEurope was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front... -
![Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas]()
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an electrifying and audacious narrative examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979... -
![The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him...Categorized as:
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![Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian]()
Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal... -
![Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein]()
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics... -
![Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky]()
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order...Categorized as:
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![The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam]()
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain... -
![The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe]()
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFrom "America’s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space... -
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![Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar]()
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratings“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book ReviewA #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco... -
![The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple, Mark Bramhall]()
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple, Mark Bramhall
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country.What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States--as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others...Categorized as:
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![Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer]()
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII. By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign correspondent was on hand to bear witness... -
![The Fifties by David Halberstam]()
The Fifties by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today... -
![Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden]()
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam?s intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000... -
![Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy, Сергій Плохій]()
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy, Сергій Плохій
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOn the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill...
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