Books written by male authors (3467)


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Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood by Frank McCourt EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
A heartfelt account of poverty in Ireland and emigration to America. -- back cover.

222.

Angels and demons by Dan Brown EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case.

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Angola Janga by Marcelo d'Salete EN

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Description:
An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D’Salete brings history to life; the painful stories of fugitive slaves on the run, the brutal raids by Portuguese colonists, and the tense power struggles within this precarious kingdom. At turns heartbreaking and empowering, Angola Janga sheds light on a long-overlooked moment of resistance against oppression.

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Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Sri Lanka flag Sri Lanka
Description:
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropolog... continue

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Animal Farm by George Orwell EN

Rating: 4 (130 votes)
Description:
A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy EN

Rating: 4 (32 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Presents the classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.


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Annapurna by Maurice Herzog EN

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Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Provides an account of the author's conquest of the Himalaya peak, and the difficulties that arose afterward


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Anomalie by Hervé Le Tellier NL

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Als een verloren gewaand vliegtuig na maanden alsnog in New York arriveert, zijn alle passagiers en bemanningsleden verdubbeld.