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What do readers say about The Book Thief?
prose like poetry repressed freedom and true empathy a girl growing up in nazi germany a heartwarming taleIt's 1939 in Molching, Germany, and horror is everywhere. Nazi rule has divided the nation into those who are brutalized and those who are merely oppressed. Hunger, fear, and isolation reign. There are stories here, and who better to tell them than D... More details on The Book Thief
When the coughing stopped, there was nothing but the nothingness of life moving on with a shuffle, or a near-silent twitch. A suddenness found its way onto his lips then, which were a corroded brown c...
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What do readers say about Man's Search for Meaning?
important and meaningful book human life and health very practical and educational direct and simple termsWe needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ulti... More details on Man's Search for Meaning
ON JANUARY 27, 2006, the sixty-first anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where 1.5 million people died, nations around the world observed the first International Holocaust Remem...
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What do readers say about All the Light We Cannot See?
an amazing novel beautiful book, but oh so sad heart-wrenching fantastic novel*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist *
From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New ... More details on All the Light We Cannot See
In a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highest floor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table covered en...
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What do readers say about The Angel Experiment?
young adult thriller fun and exciting kind of written loved every secondMax soars above the world . . . but in James Patterson's thrilling adventure, fantasy can come crashing down to reveal the nightmares of the Angel Experiment.
Maximum Ride and her "flock" - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel - are just like ordin... More details on The Angel Experiment
1 The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. Take right now, for instance. Run! Come on, run! You know you can do it. I gulped deep lungfuls ...
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What do readers say about Night?
simple, stark prose cut and dried terror simple and spare heart wrenching bookIt is 1944. The Jews of Sighet, Hungary are rounded up and driven into Nazi concentration camps. For the next terrible year, young Elie Wiesel experiences the loss of everything he loves - home, friends, family - in an agonizing journey through Birke... More details on Night
THEY CALLED HIM MOISHE THE BEADLE, as if his entire life he had never had a surname. He was the jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer, a shtibl. The Jews of Sighet—the little town in Transyl...
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What do readers say about Max?
with a big sigh really great plot hilarious and fun book humor, action and dramaJames Patterson's bestselling Maximum Ride series is back . . . and Max and her flock are ready for their most daring rescue mission yet.
Someone - or some thing - is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find them... More details on Max
Behind her, the Gasman made squealing-brakes sounds as he dropped his feet down and slowed drastically. “Hey! Watch gravity in action!” he yelled, folding his wings back to create an unaerodynamic eig...
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What do readers say about In the Balance?
alternate history fiction satirical and grotesque suspension of disbelief alternate history/science fictionSuppose Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Hitler, and Hirohito had united to conquer an even greater foe?
No one could top their power-not the Germans, not the Japanese, not the Russians, not the United States.
From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling throug... More details on In the Balance
Fleetlord Atvar strode briskly into the command station of the invasion fleet bannership 127th Emperor Hetto. Officers stiffened in their seats as he came in. But for the way his eye turrets swiveled ...
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What do readers say about The Man in the High Castle?
sharp, clear prose a book of ideas a novel of ideas not-exactly-elegant prose styleNOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES
'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'
America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while Californi... More details on The Man in the High Castle
For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail. But the valuable shipment from the Rocky Mountain States had not arrived. As he opened up his store on Friday morning and saw only lette...
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What do readers say about Number the Stars?
middle grade historical fiction suspenseful scenes and plots imagery and grave detail friendship and braveryTen-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmar... More details on Number the Stars
"We have to practice for the athletic meet on Friday—I know I'm going to win the girls' race this week. I was second last week, but I've been practicing every day. Come on, Ellen," Annemarie pleaded, ...
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What do readers say about Every Man Dies Alone?
rough-hewn and uneven relentlessly grim but believable slightly sprawling nature a dark, atmospheric novelThis never-before-translated masterpiece-by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party-is based on a true story.
It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sw... More details on Every Man Dies Alone
The postwoman Eva Kluge slowly climbs the steps of 55 Jablonski Strasse. She’s tired from her round, but she also has one of those letters in her bag that she hates to deliver, and is about to have to...
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