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Hitler's Last Secretary: A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler

by Traudl Junge

Published: 2011-09-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Hitler's personal secretary reveals the experience of day-to-day life beside one of history's true monsters.In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secret...

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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

by Jack Henry Abbott

Published: 1991-01-02

Paperback: 192 pages

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A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. This is a 37 year old man's account of 25 years behind bars.

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Dimanche and Other Stories

by Irene Nemirovsky

Published: 2010-05-01

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A collection of never-before-translated stories by the best-selling author of Suite Francaise, this is a gorgeous, gemlike volume with the same attention to detail that won Irene Nemirovsky so many fans. Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten stories mine the same terrain as her best-sel...

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Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy

by Priscilla Johnson McMillan

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 672 pages

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The inside story of Lee Harvey Oswald's path to killing John. F. Kennedy. Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America's most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous, at...

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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)

by Brandon Sanderson

Published: 2010-08-31

Kindle Edition: 1280 pages

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Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequ...

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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Published: 2013-04-23

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by...

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The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories

by Ethan Rutherford

Published: 2013-05-07

Paperback: 240 pages

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The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours.In stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters a...

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My Name is Rachel Corrie

by Rachel Corrie

Published: 2006-09-01

Paperback: 96 pages

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“A powerful, thought-provoking and deeply moving piece of theatre.”—Daily Telegraph“Theatre can’t change the world. But what it can do, when it’s as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people’s passionate concern.”—GuardianI have been in Palestine for two we...

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* * * * Pointless,
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Mink River

by Brian Doyle

Published: 2010-10-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Like Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle's stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people. In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, ...

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Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

by Tony Cliff

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 176 pages

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Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. Wit...