Book type: non-fiction (1195)


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Anarcho-Blackness : Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey EN

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What Black liberation and anarchism have in common, and what they can offer each other.
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And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation by Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna (Author) EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
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When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world. Slowly, they made their way to the safety of Sierra Leone. They were the lucky ones. After years of exile, with the fighting seemingly over, Agnes returned to Liberia--a country now devastated by years of civil war. Families have been torn apart, villages destroyed, and it seems as th... continue

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Andorra Revealed by Clare Allcard, Judith Wood, Iain Woolward, Ursula Simpson Ure, Alexandra Grebennikova EN

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Andorra Revealed: Entertaining stories about one of the world's more enigmatic countries. Journey with us through fact and fiction, memoire and imagination, behind the scenes and into the heart of this unique, pocket-sized country. The book is crammed with facts, past and present and interwoven with bedtime stories that reveal even more of this rare Co-Princedom: tales of smugglers and pigs, murder and even witches on broomsticks. Serving as an entertaining companion for would-be visitors and a practical guide for those considering Andorra as a place to live, it shares with you the allure that... continue

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

Rating: 4 (12 votes)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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A heartfelt account of poverty in Ireland and emigration to America. -- back cover.

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Anger Is My Middle Name : A Memoir by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
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An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to live whe... continue

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Annapurna by Maurice Herzog EN

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

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Anne Franks dagbok by Anne Frank, Ari Folman, David Polonsky NO

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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Kjære Kitty, jeg håper å kunne betro deg alt, slik jeg aldri før har kunnet med noen, og jeg håper du vil være til god støtte for meg



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Antigone by Sophocles EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
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To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition? includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles? classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebe... continue