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Last Stop Auschwitz
The inspiring true story of a Jewish holocaust survivor, written from inside the camp
- Translated by
- David Colmer
2020
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's JourneyAfterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas_______________Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp ...
Nazi Billionaires
The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties
2022
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‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAINA groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.In 1946, Günther Quandt – patriarch of Germany’s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW – was arrested fo...
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016
A Tor.com Original
- by
- Charlie Jane AndersNina AllanTara Isabella BurtonMonica ByrneRebecca CampbellAliette de BodardIndrapramit DasAlix E. HarrowN. K. JemisinMargaret KilljoyCixin LiuMelissa MarrDavid NickleLaurie PennyDaniel PolanskyLettie PrellDelia ShermanAngela SlatterCaighlan SmithLavie TidharRajnar VajraGenevieve ValentineCarrie VaughnAlyssa WongP. Djèlí Clark
2017
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A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2016.Includes stories by:Charlie Jane AndersNina AllanTara Isabella BurtonMonica ByrneRebecca CampbellP. Djèlí ClarkIndrapramit DasAlix E. HarrowN. K. JemisinMargaret KilljoyCixin LiuMelissa MarrDavid NickleLaurie PennyDaniel PolanskyLettie Prell
De Novo Syndrome
Episode 1
2016
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The rules are about to change. When Jim Buckner's research to unlock human immortality thrusts his daughter into the cross-hairs of a secret war, he'll do anything to get her back--including evolve.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:When Jim Buckner's daughter is kidnapped, his obsession shifts from discovering the lost genetic sequence for awakening human immortality to discovering who took her and how to get her back.The journey reveals a hiberna...
From Lance to Landis
Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France
2007
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For eight years, the Tour de France, arguably the world’s most demanding athletic competition, was ruled by two men: Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis. On the surface, they were feature players in one of the great sporting stories of the age–American riders overcoming tremendous odds to dominate a sport that held little previous interest for their countrymen. But is this a true story, or is there a darker version of the truth, one that sadly reflects the realities of sports in the twenty-fi...
The Long List Anthology Volume 2
More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List
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- David SteffenAliette de BodardAlyssa WongKai Ashante WilsonAnn LeckieMartin L. ShoemakerAmal El-MohtarCatherynne M. ValenteElizabeth BearUsman T. MalikDavid D. LevineUrsula VernonSarah PinskerRose LembergTamsyn MuirNaomi KritzerSeanan McGuireMegan GreyNicola Griffith
- Book 2 -
- Long List Anthology Series
2016
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This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer...
Murder as a Fine Art
Thomas and Emily De Quincey 1
2013
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An artist of death is stalking Victorian London, recreating earlier masterpieces of murder.Police suspicion falls on the notorious 'opium-eater' Thomas De Quincey, recently returned to the capital, who wrote in detail about the original crimes. Someone is using his essays as inspiration - and he must uncover the truth before the killer completes his work.In MURDER AS A FINE ART, London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer - whose lives are...
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- Charles DarwinJohn MiltonMolièreAnonymousPlatoAdam SmithFrancis BaconAesopOliver GoldsmithEpictetusBenjamin FranklinConfuciusVirgilChristopher MarloweMarcus AureliusThomas CarlyleSaint AugustineAristophanesWilliam ShakespeareAeschylusEuripidesTacitusSophoclesPlutarchDante AlighieriEdmund BurkeCiceroJohn DrydenGrimm BrothersRobert BurnsWilliam PennIzaak WaltonThomas BrowneCharles EliotLord Byron. Homer. VoltaireJohn WoolmanJane AustenJohann Wolfgang von GoetheWashington IrvingRalph Waldo EmersonThomas á KempisPliny the YoungerMiguel Cervantes De SaavedraRichard Brinsley SheridanPercy Bysshe ShelleyRobert BrowningAlessandro ManzoniRichard Henry Dana JrJohn Stuart MillPedro Calderón de la BarcaPierre CorneilleJean RacineGotthold Ephraim LessingFriedrich von SchillerMichael FaradayHermann von HelmholtzLord KelvinSimon NewcombSir Archibald GeikieBenvenuto CelliniMichel de MontaigneCharles Augustin Sainte-BeuveErnest RenanImmanuel KantGiuseppe MazziniHerodotusPhiliip NicholsFrancis PrettyWalter BiggesEdward HaiesWalter RaleighThomas HobbesJean FroissartSir Thomas MaloryWilliam HarrisonNiccolò MachiavelliWilliam RoperSir Thomas MoreMartin LutherJohn LockeGeorge BerkeleyDavid HumeHippocratesAmbroise ParéWilliam HarveyEdward JennerOliver Wendell HolmesJoseph ListerLouis PasteurCharles LyellThomas DekkerBen JonsonBeaumont and FletcherJohn WebsterPhilip MassingerHenry FieldingLaurence SterneSir Walter ScottWilliam Makepeace ThackerayGeorge EliotEdgar Allan PoeFrancis Bret HarteSamuel L. ClemensEdward Everett HaleHenry JamesVictor HugoHonoré de BalzacGeorge SandAlfred de MussetAlphonse DaudetGuy de MaupassantGottfried KellerTheodor StormTheodor FontaneFyodor DostoevskyJuan ValeraBjørnstjerne BjørnsonAlexander L. KiellandCharles DickensHans Christian AndersenLeo TolstoyNathaniel HawthorneJohn BunyanRené DescartesThomas MaloryChristianBlaise PascalIvan Turgenev
2024
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The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton
I,Q
Star Trek The Next Generation
2012
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The mischievous all-powerful cosmic entity known only as 'Q' has plagued Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise since the opening episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Over the millennia of his lifetime he has encountered countless challenges and many powerful enemies. But none has been so deadly as the being that now threatens not just the universe we know but all the myriad alternate universes with it. Against this attack on everything that is and everything that...
- Translated by
- David Carter
2009
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Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy night-time thunderstorm in Argentina. As conditions get worse and the radio communication with Fabien becomes increasingly difficult, Riviere begins to question his uncompromising methods, and his distress turns to guilt when the pilot's wife comes to find him in search of answers.Based on Saint-Exupery's own experiences as a commercial pilot, Night Flight is a haunt...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Longlisted for the Booker Prize
- Narrated by
- Jemma RedgraveAndrew Wincott
Unabridged
22 hours 39 min
2020
EN
******Pre-order UTOPIA AVENUE, the spectacular new novel from David Mitchell.**The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of...
Inspector of the Dead
Thomas and Emily De Quincey 2
- Book 2 -
- Victorian De Quincey mysteries
2015
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The year is 1855. The Crimean war is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire itself hangs in the balance.And then the murders start...Someone is targeting members of London's elite - leaving with each corpse the names of men who failed to assassinate Queen Victoria. It's clear that Victoria will be the ultimate victim. As the notorious Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey and his daughter Emily race to save her, they uncover the heart-breaking past of a man whose lus...











