Books written by male authors (3220)


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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
When Julio finally decided to fight, the world and his family knew him for a different man. In the end, a spoiled son of privilege became a man of honor and integrity, a noble soldier in the war to end all wars.
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The Fox Hunt : A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi EN

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Country: Asia / Yemen flag Yemen
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“Nail-bitingly suspenseful. ... Inspiring. ... Essential reading.” — Booklist, starred review The Fox Hunt tells one young man’s unforgettable story of war, unlikely friendship, and his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal civial war with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West. Born in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. But when Mohammed was twenty-three, he secretly received a copy of the Bible, and what h... continue

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The Fraud Squad by Kyla Zhao EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Singapore flag Singapore
Description:
A working-class woman who infiltrates Singapore’s high society to fulfill her dreams risks losing everything in the process—including herself—in this propulsive novel by debut author Kyla Zhao. For as long as she can remember, Samantha Song has dreamed of writing for a high-society magazine—and she’d do anything to get there. But the constant struggle to help her mom make ends meet and her low social status cause her dream to feel like a distant fantasy. Now Samantha finds herself working at a drab PR firm. Living vicariously through her wealthy coworker and friend, Anya Chen, is the closest s... continue

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The Fugitive by Pramoedya Ananta Toer EN

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Country: Asia / Indonesia flag Indonesia
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Translation originally published: New York: William Morrow, 1990.

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The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Moving from Khartoum, Sudan, to Washington, D.C., and then across the US in a road trip unlike any other, this is a book about music, friendship and the desire for home

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The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A man-made microbe that accelerates the normal growth of molds and fungi is responsible for the deformed men and women appearing in hospital emergency rooms.

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The Fury by Alex Michaelides EN

Rating: 3 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Cyprus flag Cyprus
Description:
A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story... continue

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The Future Eaters : An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
In this illustrated ecological history, acclaimed scientist and historian Flannery follows the environment of the islands through the age of dinosaurs to the age of mammals and the arrival of humans, to the European colonizers and industrial society. Penetrating, gripping, and provocative, this book combines natural history, anthropology, and ecology on an epic scale. Illustrations.

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The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian 'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds himself shot, frozen and thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined.