Book type: non-fiction (2025)


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Going Dark : The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late nights, holidays, weekends - adopting five different identities, and joining a dozen extremist groups from across the ideological spectrum. Her journey would take her from a Generation Identity global strategy meeting in a pub in Mayfair, to a Neo-Nazi Music Festival on the border of Germany an... continue

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Going Home

Going Home : Jesus and Buddha as Brothers by Thich Nhất Hạnh EN

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Country: Asia / Vietnam flag Vietnam
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They see where the Buddhist understanding of the nature of reality and the concept of God come together. Their conversation shows the deep connection between Jesus and Buddha."--BOOK JACKET.

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Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood EN

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A collection of short works includes parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fiction, and reconfigured fairy tales

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Good Soil : The Education of an Accidental Farmhand by Jeff Chu EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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A profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm “I needed this book. I think you need it, too.”—Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary’s “Farminary”—a twenty-one-acre working farm where students learn to cultivate the earth while examining life’s biggest questions. Now, he unpacks what he learned about creating “good soil,” both literally an... continue

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Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography by Robert Graves EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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English author Robert Graves says goodbye to England, family, friends, and a way of life.

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Goodbye Sarajevo : A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid, Hana Schofield EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war

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Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
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This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s lives Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War—a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. Beginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim em... continue

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens EN

Rating: 4 (11 votes)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.' Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encoutering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the excaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up withher unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella. In this compelling story, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by desire for wealth and social status. Pip must establish his own sense of self against the plans which other... continue


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Gregory of Nyssa : The Life of Moses by HarperCollins Spiritual Classics EN

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Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
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St. Gregory of Nyssa (335-394 CE), who came from an illustrious Christian family of Capadocia, became bishop of the small town of Nyssa in 371 and is known as one of the founders of mystical theology in the Church. In The Life of Moses, one of the most important books in the study of Christian mysticism, Gregory retells the story of Moses's life from the biblical account in Exodus and Numbers and then refers back to these stories as the basis for profound spiritual lessons. The ultimate goal of Gregory's spirituality is to strive for infinite progress in the never-completed journey to God. His... continue