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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publica…

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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.

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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

The idea that Nazi Germany was an unstoppable juggernaut, backed by an efficient, highly industrialized economy, has been central to all accounts of World War II. But what if this was not the case? Wh…

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Housekeeping

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-…

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Queer

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story …

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Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor’s accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful di…

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Possession

A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic.

A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail o…

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undispute…

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Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)

When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong—their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been i…

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Η φόνισσα

«Η φόνισσα» (1903) κατέχει, κατά γενική ομολογία, ξεχωριστή θέση στο έργο του Παπαδιαμάντη (1851-1911). Ξεχωριστή και με τις δύο σημασίες της λέξης: ιδιαίτερη και εξέχουσα. Αν δεν υπήρχε «Η φόνισσα», …

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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself cli…

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At the Mountains of Madness

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, A…

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