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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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The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRecalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine...Categorized as:
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Поезия. Публицистика by Hristo Botev
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsСветът на Ботевата поезия е монолитен, с вътрешно сцепление на заряда и внушенията на всяко от стихотворенията му под знака на единни нагласи и цели... -
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Little Blue Truck's Halloween: A Halloween Book for Kids by Alice Schertle
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCelebrate Halloween with the #1 New York Times best-selling Little Blue Truck and friends.Beep! Beep! It’s Halloween! Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party... -
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Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrings together all D.M. Thomas' acclaimed translations of Akhmatova's poems. This volume includes "Requiem", her poem of the Stalinist Terror and "Poem Without a Hero"... -
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Magenta by John Payton Foden
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMagenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human condition. The novel follows a journalist, Silva, as she and her team make their way deep into a city under siege, in order to recover the body of Thierry, an award-winning filmmaker who has been killed there...Categorized as:
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A Gracious Enemy by Michael G. Kramer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe full story of the three Indochina wars, told from both sides and including the plight of civilians caught up in the fighting. Of necessity, the politics of Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, and the USA towards the push for independence and freedom by Vietnam and Laos are examined. The region known as Indochina is made up of the countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam... -
![Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright]()
Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few--then or now... -
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Autumn at the Café at the End of the Pier by Helen Rolfe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLooking for love this autumn? You'll find it at The Café at the End of the Pier... A feelgood novella and the continuation of the Café at the End of the Pier series. Autumn brings golden leaves and crisp days to Salthaven-on-Sea - but inside the Cafe the lights are glowing, the hot chocolate is warming, and romantic sparks are flying.. -
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Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many... -
![Kingdom's End: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe most widely read and the most translated writer in Urdu. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) is also the most controversial: he was tried for obscenity no less than six times, both before and after the departure of the British from India in 1947... -
![Star Wars The Last Jedi™ Incredible Cross Sections by Jason Fry]()
Star Wars The Last Jedi™ Incredible Cross Sections by Jason Fry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis beautiful hardback book reveals the inner workings of 13 key vehicles from Episode VIII of the Star Wars™ saga, Star Wars: The Last Jedi™. Each vehicle is shown as an intricately detailed, full-colour cross-section artwork, complete with callouts to the important features of each ship... -
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The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Indonesian island is hastily given independence, and a Chinese-educated homosexual who was born on the island returns from his Canadian university to find his life radically altered. The story, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, represents an account of a post-colonial disaster... -
![Ocke, Nutta Och Pillerill [Woody, Hazel and Little Pip] by Elsa Beskow]()
Ocke, Nutta Och Pillerill [Woody, Hazel and Little Pip] by Elsa Beskow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSimplified Chinese edition of Woody, Hazel and Little Pip(Ocke, Nutta Och Pillerill,) a Swedish children's book by the the acclaimed writer and artist Elsa Beskow (1874 - 1953, long considered to be Beatrix Potter of Sweden. Beskow's art has enthralled generations of children around the world with the stories she told, many of them classics. Her books have been translated into 15 languages... -
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![Surviving Savage by Victoria Bright]()
Surviving Savage by Victoria Bright
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***This book was previously published in Amazon Kindle Worlds*** Cameron “Savage” Garrett only cared about two things: fighting for his country and his SEAL brothers. Falling in love wasn’t on the radar, at least until he came to face to face with his high school sweetheart at a nightclub. Now was his chance to pick back up where they left off... -
![The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim]()
The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the Iran/Iraq War through the Occupation, this collection of fictional short stories presents an uncompromising view of the relationship between the West and Iraq, as well as a haunting critique of the postwar refugee experience... -
![Drach by Szczepan Twardoch]()
Drach by Szczepan Twardoch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrach wie. Wraz z kilkuletnim Josefem przygląda się świniobiciu. Jest październikowy poranek 1906 roku i, choć chłopiec nie ma o tym pojęcia, ryk zarzynanego zwierzęcia oraz smak wusztzupy powrócą do niego kilkanaście lat później, gdy po zakończeniu wojny będzie powracał na Śląsk.Nikodem nigdy nie był w wojsku. Jest za to wziętym architektem...Categorized as:
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David Falkayn: Star Trader by Poul Anderson
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 13 ratings1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally exciting short novels.3. A book with strong appeal to readers of David Drake's RCN series.4...Categorized as:
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![Cross The Stars by David Drake]()
Cross The Stars by David Drake
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is cold and dark with planets which hold hidden dangers, and if Don Slade should ever reach Tethys, that's when the real fighting starts... -
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Monastery by Eduardo Halfon
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for clues about his identity across Central America and Europe, New York and Jerusalem In Monastery , Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer travels from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he... -
![Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba]()
Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD YOUNG NOVELIST'S AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE, THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE AND NEW SOUTH WALES' PREMIER LITERARY AWARDS On the day that Obinna’s village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination...Categorized as:
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![Martyrs' Crossing by Amy Wilentz]()
Martyrs' Crossing by Amy Wilentz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“SOPHISTICATED AND SUSPENSEFUL . . . TAUTLY WRITTEN . . . Wilentz knows the world she writes about very well, and her descriptions have a solid specificity that lends authority to her fiction.”–The New York Times Book Review“At a closed Israeli checkpoint, Marina, a Palestinian mother, clutches her ailing boy, desperate for access to Jerusalem and its doctors... -
![The French Art of War by Alexis Jenni]()
The French Art of War by Alexis Jenni
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a veteran of the great colonial wars of Indochina, Vietnam and Algeria, a commander who had led his soldiers across the globe, a man with the blood of others up to his elbows... -
![In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz]()
In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the exotic, seductive world of pre-revolutionary Iran, IN THE WALLED GARDENS tells the nostalgic and moving story of Mahastee and Reza, who loved each other as children but have not seen each other for 20 years.Mahastee, who has become trapped by the privileged society she has grown up in, is struggling to keep her identity in the face of the increasingly empty role she inhabits... -
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![Coming Back to You by Renea Porter]()
Coming Back to You by Renea Porter
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt one time twenty three year old Maura had it all, loving parents, a best friend and a gorgeous boyfriend. Slowly over the years things were being ripped from her little by little. Her boyfriend left right out of high school to join the Marines. Her parents died a while later, leaving her on her own. She only had her best friend Ruby to rely on and keep her afloat while she dealt with her losses... -
![Yalo by Elias Khoury]()
Yalo by Elias Khoury
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElias Khoury’s most recent novel propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last page. We follow the path of a young man, Yalo, who is growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war... -
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Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am.He became famous through his academy award-winning performance as Dith Pran in the film The Killing Fields, but the key to Haing Ngor's screen success was the terrible truth of his own experiences in the rice paddies and labour camps of revolutionary Cambodia... -
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette... -
![Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano]()
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself.Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he’s about to die... -
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No Sleep Till Shengal by Zerocalcare
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNella primavera del 2021 Zerocalcare si reca in Iraq, per far visita alla comunità ezida di Shengal, minacciata dalle tensioni internazionali e protetta dalle milizie curde, e documentarne le condizioni di vita e la lotta...
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