Book type: non-fiction (2026)


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Flying Green : On the Frontiers of New Aviation by Christopher de Bellaigue EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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Can flying be green? Last year, the world's airlines pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, and whether that actually happens or not, over the coming decades aviation will experience more innovation than it has since the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered and the way they look. Christopher de Bellaigue goes to the frontiers of the new technologies, from a startup in Iceland that shows what it takes to truly capture carbon, a California firm using hydrogen tanks to power their planes, to an airship called the Flying Whale. This is the story of the search fo... continue

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Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story.

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Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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'Football is a pleasure that hurts' This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic. 'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian 'G... continue

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Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco EN

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Country: Europe / Malta flag Malta
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"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."—Los Angeles Times Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah—cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake—reveals the competing truths that have come to define an i... continue

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For a House Made of Stone : Gina's Story by Gina French, Andrew Crofts EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
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All Gina wanted was to help support her family and protect them from the elements with a house made of stone. This is the true story of a girl from the Philippines who wanted to repay her family for the trouble she'd caused them and ended up on trial for murder in the UK in 2001.

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For Joshua: One Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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“An expansive work about healing, resilience, humanity, respect, inheritance, Indigenous teachings, and most of all, love” from the author of Indian Horse (Literary Hub). “We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.” Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding “that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe.” In this intimate ser... continue

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Foreign Fighters and International Peace : Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home by Cholpon Orozobekova EN

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Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan flag Kyrgyzstan
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This book sheds light on the emergence, roots and gradual change of jihadism and exposes its detrimental impact on human lives. The author collected insightful interviews with ISIS fighters and also with women who joined ISIS. The book analyzes root causes and motivations of people based on the firsthand information and proposes the non-enigma cycles radicalization theory, and argues that two main cycles- grievances and resentment, and the radical ideology are the most significant. The book addresses the current situation with 70,000 women and children, who were family members of ISIS fighters... continue

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Forest of Noise : Poems by Mosab Abu Toha EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Palestine flag Palestine
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are... continue

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Forget Kathmandu by Manjushree Thapa ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Nepal flag Nepal
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Author's impression on the political conditions in Nepal post 2001 while travelling through the affected areas of political strife.

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Forgotten War : New Edition by Henry Reynolds EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.' Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier wars now than it was one hundred years ago? In Forgotten War, winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction, influential historian Henry Reynolds makes it clear that the... continue