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A Memoir
by Claude Lanzmann
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by Salman Rushdie
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsHow do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one...
by Amos Oz
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsA portrait of a fictional village, by one of the world's most admired writers.
by Darin Strauss
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsHalf a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street
by Emma Williams
Published Dec 2009
Read ReviewsA deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
by Peter Duffy
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsThe inspiring and harrowing true story of three brothers who established a hidden base camp in the Belorussian forest eluding the Nazi's extensive efforts to capture them. In July 1944, after two and a half years in the woods, more than one thousand Jewish men, women and children, emerged from the woods triumphant and alive.
by Dean King
Published Dec 2000
Read ReviewsPatrick O'Brian was in his mid 70's when The New York Times Book Review proclaimed him the writer of the greatest historical novels ever written. This is the first biography of this famously secretive man.
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