Book type: non-fiction (1189)


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You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later, Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wife’s killers, which he posted on Facebook. He refused to be cowed or to let his seventeen-month-old son’s life be defined by Hélène’s murder. He refused... continue

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You've Changed : Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar by Pyae Moe Thet War EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Myanmar flag Myanmar
Description:
In this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, and more, guiding us toward an expansive idea of what it means to be a Myanmar woman today What does it mean to be a Myanmar person—a baker, swimmer, writer and woman—on your own terms rather than those of the colonizer? These irreverent yet vulnerable essays ask that question by tracing the journey of a woman who spent her young adulthood in the US and UK before returning to her hometown of Yangon,... continue

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Your personal leadership guide by Ntangeki Nshala EN

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Country: Africa / Tanzania flag Tanzania
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This book is for YOUTH. Those in Secondary school or College. While our YOUTH are schools they are taught in curriculum that prepares them to become skilled to perform certain professional tasks. ..like being a Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Accountant..etc. very few schools focus their efforts to shape the character of these YOUTH to grow up into responsible people who can use their knowledge, skills and energy for the general benefit of their families and community at large. In this book I talk to YOUTH about habits that need to be developed and which will be useful as they grow up and navigate t... continue

1184.

Zealot : The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan EN

Rating: 4.5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most eni... continue

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Zinky Boys : Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
Winner of the Nobel Prize: "For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." --Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation

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Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
In a voice both innocent and wise, touchingly reminiscent of Anne Frank's, Zlata Filipovic's diary has awoken the conscience of the world. Now thirteen years old, Zlata began her diary just before her eleventh birthday, when there was peace in Sarajevo and her life was that of a bright, intelligent, carefree young girl. Her early entries describe her friends, her new skis, her family, her grades at school, her interest in joining the Madonna Fan Club. And then, on television, she sees the bombs falling on Dubrovnik. Though repelled by the sight, Zlata cannot conceive of the same thing happenin... continue

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Zorro by Dubravka Ugrešic ES

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Country: Europe / Croatia flag Croatia
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El zorro es un bastardo: un ser salvaje, tramposo y ladrón, una criatura que no respeta las normas ni los límites; exactamente como el escritor. Y también como la voz de esta historia, fragmentada y multilingüe, que quizá podamos llamar "novela". Solo hay una pregunta: ¿cómo se crean los cuentos? La narradora, en su búsqueda de respuesta, irá desde los Estados Unidos hasta Japón pasando por Rusia, Italia y Croacia, y nos hablará de escritores con autobiografías secretas, de artistas laureados gracias a sus viudas, de romances marcados por la irrupción de la guerra y de niñas que convocan con u... continue