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#1
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deeply disturbing memoirthe best memoir I have ever readvery frank and rawreally interestingMORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) m...See Full Details
Liked The Glass Castle?
#2
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's sur...See Full Details
Liked Master and Commander?
#3
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken an...See Full Details
Liked Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption?
#4
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simple, stark prosecut and dried terrorsimple and spareheart 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 experie...See Full Details
Liked Night?
#5
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vividly written storiesthe level of detailvery long and long-windedtragic and depressingHailed by STEPHEN KING as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror'.
Now a chilling 10-part TV series from RIDLEY SCOTT on...See Full Details
Liked The Terror?
#6
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clear, accessible styleconcise and well detailedadult historical fictionnonfiction, historical narrativeAmerica's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the ye...See Full Details
Liked 1776?
#7
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reporting the known factsexhilarating and disturbingdocumentary or journalist’s investigationa magazine articleKrakauer's page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the Amer...See Full Details
Liked Into the Wild?
#8
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stream of consciousnessspare and beautifula true talegrowing up in irelandA Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.
"When I look b...See Full Details
Liked Angela's Ashes?
#9
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wooden and sometimes cheesylively and tighta depression-era circus trainlove and betrayalOver 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide
#1 New York Times Bestseller...See Full Details
Liked Water for Elephants?
#10
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a fast readconversational, accessible styleeasy to followstilted and detachedIn the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wand...See Full Details
Liked A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier?
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