Books like 'Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power'
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The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader...Categorized as:
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![Gray Salvation by Alan McDermott]()
Gray Salvation by Alan McDermott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen the body of an MI5 operative is found floating in the Thames, police frogmen find a significant clue nearby: Nikolai Sereyev, an MI5 informer and mid-level player in a Russian criminal organisation. Both men have been brutally murdered.Andrew Harvey is tasked with finding his colleague’s killer, and quickly uncovers a plot to assassinate a visiting dignitary on British soil... -
![Fallen Pride by Wayne Stinnett]()
Fallen Pride by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this third installment of the Jesse McDermitt series, Jesse faces an antagonist unlike any other. A friend’s son, who was dishonorably discharged from the Corps, is suffering from post-traumatic stress. With Jesse’s help he learns to cope with his demons and gets his discharge overturned, so that he can once again serve the country he loves... -
![Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vásquez]()
Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions. The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work...Categorized as:
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![Die Sommer by Ronya Othmann]()
Die Sommer by Ronya Othmann
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLeyla ist die Tochter einer Deutschen und eines jesidischen Kurden… Das ergreifende Debüt der Gewinnerin des Publikumspreises des Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerbs (2019) über das Dasein zwischen zwei WeltenDas Dorf liegt in Nordsyrien, nahe zur Türkei. Jeden Sommer verbringt Leyla dort. Sie riecht und schmeckt es. Sie kennt seine Geschichten... -
![Tangled Vines by Kay Bratt]()
Tangled Vines by Kay Bratt
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith the bad memories of the Cultural Revolution and a life of hard work behind them, Benfu and his treasured Calla Lily are content watching their daughters blossom—six young women who they adopted as their own... -
![Dirty War by Stephen Leather]()
Dirty War by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE NEW MUST-READ SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLERThe target - the Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose.The only man who can stop them? Dan "Spider" Shepherd.But Shepherd's reputation is also on the line - he helped get one of the jihadists into the UK during the final days of the War in Afghanistan.Now he has to track down the man whose life he once saved... -
![The Shadow Children: Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix]()
The Shadow Children: Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm. In Among the Hidden, Luke discovers the existence of another shadow child, and his world is turned upside down... -
![Children Of The Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov]()
Children Of The Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet in 1934, Children of the Arbat presents a masterful and chilling psychological portrait of Stalin and details the beginning of his reign of terror and its impact on a generation - represented by a circle of young friends living in Moscow's intellectual and artistic center, the Arbat... -
![Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi]()
Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades... -
![Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel]()
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s... -
![Hunter Killer by Harry McCallion]()
Hunter Killer by Harry McCallion
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA man, alone and exhausted, with a deep gash on his temple, has a bullet wound that has robbed him of his memory.He learns his name is Fraser and within moments, he realises he is being relentlessly hunted by an unknown number of trained, armed men.He doesn’t know why he’s running or who he is fighting against but within moments of coming to, he has killed the first of his attackers... -
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![Jack Frake by Edward Cline]()
Jack Frake by Edward Cline
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBringing a radically new perspective to the events leading up to The American Revolution, Sparrowhawk, a new series of historical novels, establishes that The Revolution occurred in two stages: the war for independence and also a more subtle revolution that happened in men's minds that occurred many years before the Declaration of Independence... -
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![The Dandelion Insurrection - love and revolution - by Rivera Sun]()
The Dandelion Insurrection - love and revolution - by Rivera Sun
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a time that looms around the corner of today, in a place on the edge of our nation, it is a crime to dissent, a crime to assemble, a crime to stand up for one's life. Despite all this - or perhaps because of it - the Dandelion Insurrection appeared . . -
![Mother by Maxim Gorky]()
Mother by Maxim Gorky
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsEvery day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smoke-begrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen's suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street. With somber faces they hastened forward like frightened roaches, their muscles stiff from insufficient sleep... -
![Lone Target by Vin Strong]()
Lone Target by Vin Strong
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a group of terrorists hijack a plane and cut off all communication, Air Marshal Alex Hawkins faces his greatest challenge yet. With a captain who is unable to help, can Alex prevent disaster in the sky all on his own?LONE TARGET (An Alex Hawkins Action Thriller—Book 2) is the second novel in a new series by action thriller author Vin Strong. The series begins with LONE SURVIVOR (Book 1)...Categorized as:
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![Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin]()
Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the beginning of 1933 after Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany, fourteen-year-old Christa Becker of Ravensburg, Germany, attends meetings of the League of German Girls, an organization established to create dedicated wives whose role was to give birth to superior Aryan children... -
![A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone]()
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn Astonishing Saga of Politics, War, and Americans Out of Place, by a National Book Award Winner! Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution... -
![Conquered City by Victor Serge]()
Conquered City by Victor Serge
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1919–1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the city’s new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups... -
![Fractions: The First Half of The Fall Revolution by Ken MacLeod]()
Fractions: The First Half of The Fall Revolution by Ken MacLeod
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they are, nuclear deterrence is a commodity traded on the open market, teenagers deal in "theologically correct" software for fundamentalists, and anarchists have colonized a planet circling another star... -
![A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh]()
A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Knowledge of Angels, a brilliant new novel.It is 1945. The German army retreats and sweeps back over Eastern Europe, leaving its inhabitants in turmoil. A terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, takes refuge in Libohrad, a deserted castle. She is joined by the idealistic Jiri, the unnerving Slavomir and his partisans... -
![Dark Web by Jamie Garrett]()
Dark Web by Jamie Garrett
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCarly DiMarco, ex-hacker and bass player of a struggling all-girl rock group, is in deep shit. Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Nevada and with no money to make it home after their last desperate plan falls through, Carly is forced to accept a hacking job; something she swore she wouldn't ever go back to... -
![Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone, Barry Menikoff]()
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone, Barry Menikoff
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe impoverished, desolate mountain regions of the Abruzzo during Mussolini's reign provide the backdrop for the three greatest novels by Ignazio Silone, one of the twentieth century's most important writers... -
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![Changing of the Guard by Steve Perry, Tom Clancy]()
Changing of the Guard by Steve Perry, Tom Clancy
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThough the head of a major multinational corporation - and a key player in world affairs - Samuel Walker Cox is a past few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A new computer desk has fallen into the hands of Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman is a former Russian spy. Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name... -
![Genocide of One: A Thriller by Kazuaki Takano]()
Genocide of One: A Thriller by Kazuaki Takano
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe internationally bestselling, award-winning thriller about a child who may be the future of the human race--ot the cause of its extinction. During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet... -
![Beijing Coma by Ma Jian]()
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier’s bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home... -
![The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France]()
The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPublished in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, The Gods Will Have Blood is the story of Gamelin, an idealistic young artist appointed as a magistrate during the French Revolution. Gamelin's ideals lead him to the most monstrous mass murder of his countrymen, and the links between Gamelin and his family, his mistress and the humanist Brotteaux are catastrophically severed... -
![The Jungle by David Drake]()
The Jungle by David Drake
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the death of the Earth, humankind live in domed undersea Keeps on the planet Venus. And only the mercenary naval troops called Free Companies venture out to wage the Keeps' proxy wars against the lethal lifeforms on the surface... -
![Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger]()
Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne of Literary Hub's August "Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books" Geek Tyrant's "The Most Highly Anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of August 2021" Gizmodo's "49 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Keep You Turning Pages in August" When evil forces are going unchecked on Earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try to seek justice in the only place she knows how--the International... -
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Goldeneye by John Gardner
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsXenia's new master is Janus, a very dangerous and ambitious Russian gang. Janus underestimates James Bond when they acquire Goldeneye, the high tech space technology that could destroy the financial markets of the West...Categorized as:
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![A Murky Business by Honoré de Balzac]()
A Murky Business by Honoré de Balzac
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharacterized by amoral ruthlessness, the politics of A Murky Business would seem to bear out Balzac's questionable precept.Set earlier than most of Balzac's Comedie Humaine, the novel covers the years 1803-6, when Napolean was making himself first Consul and then Emperor. The inclusion of Napoleon himself, as well as figures like Talleyrand and Fouche, makes this a historical novel... -
![Wild Ginger by Anchee Min]()
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution... -
![Forbidden City by Vanessa Hua]()
Forbidden City by Vanessa Hua
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars.On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary...Categorized as:
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![The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall]()
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center.In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life... -
![The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication by John Steinbeck, Robert E. Morsberger]()
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication by John Steinbeck, Robert E. Morsberger
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French... -
![What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky]()
What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution... -
![Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min]()
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is an evocation of the woman who married Chairman Mao and fought to succeed him. The unwanted daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound, ran away to join an opera troupe and eventually met Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yenan...
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