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  Bread and Wine

  by Ignazio Silone

  One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy. Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.
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  Maisie Dobbs: Book 8

  A Lesson in Secrets

  by Jacqueline Winspear

  Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor—and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs' career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior... (more)
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  The Sorrow of Belgium

  by Hugo Claus

  A classic novel in the tradition of The Tin Drum , The Sorrow of Belgium is a searing, scathingly funny portrait of a wartime Belgium and one boy's coming of age-emotionally, sexually, and politically. Epic in scope, by turns hilarious and elegiac, The Sorrow of Belgium is the masterwork of one of the world's greatest contemporary authors.
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  Berlin: Book 2

  City of Smoke

  by Jason Lutes

  The second installment of the epic historical trilogy   The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many... (more)
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  The Hunger Games: Book 2

  Catching Fire

  by Suzanne Collins

  SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITOL WANTS REVENGE. Katniss is threatened to make a show for the President that she did not make fun of the capitol.Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and... (more)
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  Judgment at Nuremberg: A Play (New Directions Paperbook, 951)

  by Abby Mann

  The Nuremberg trials brought to public attention the worst of the Nazi atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg brings those trials to life. Abby Mann's riveting drama Judgment at Nuremberg not only brought some of the worst Nazi atrocities to public attention, but has become, along with Elie Wiesel's Night and Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl , one of the twentieth century's most important records of... (more)
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  Republic: A Novel of America's Future

  by Charles Sheehan-Miles

  A domestic terrorist attack evokes a violent and oppressive response from the U.S. government... a labor dispute ends in violence... a young boy lies dying of a rare disease with no hope in sight. When the conflict focuses on a small town in West Virginia, Ken Murphy, Iraq veteran and Lieutenant Colonel in the West Virginia National Guard, must find a way to protect his family and community in a world turned... (more)
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  Battle Royale

  by Koushun Takami

  Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence, is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only... (more)
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  Harry Potter: Book 5

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  by J. K. Rowling

  Book five in Joanne Kathleen Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for the young wizard, who finds himself knocked time after time the events of last year. Over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Lord Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the... (more)
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  It Can't Happen Here

  by Sinclair Lewis

  "Political protest literature, written - with a mixture of 'the human touch' and broad humour - by someone who knew precisely why it COULD happen here."The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in... (more)
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  Arch of Triumph

  by Erich Maria Remarque

  The author of All Quiet on the Western Front writes about a German doctor and refugee living in decadent Paris before WW2. Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on--all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for... (more)
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  Berlin: Book 1

  City of Stones

  by Jason Lutes

  Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929,... (more)
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  The Kindly Ones

  by Jonathan Littell

  "Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the... (more)
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  Portrait of an Englishman in His Chateau

  by André Pieyre de Mandiargues

  When the unnamed narrator crosses the causeway to the Chateau of Gamehuche, he enters a surrealist nightmare of debauchery and violence. The proceedings at the chateau are presided over by the master of Gamehuche, M. de Montcul, formerly the English diplomat, Sir Horatio Mountarse. With a cast of willing and not-so-willing acolytes, he serves up an over-refined cuisine of obscenity, sexual perversion and... (more)
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  Lost City Radio: A Novel (P.S.)

  For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios—a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio , she reads the names of those who have disappeared—those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody... (more)
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  Esther: Novelle

  by Bruno Apitz

  Oswald, 27 Jahre, seit 10 Jahren Häftling im Konzentrationslager, unerfahren im Umgang mit Frauen, unberührt, verliebt sich in Esther, die Jüdin. Gefangene wie er.
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  Zone

  by Mathias Énard

  Starred Review. Homeric in its scope and grandeur, remarkable in its detail, Énard's American debut is a screaming take on history, war, and violence. Francis Servain Mirkovic, the son of a French father and a Croatian mother, is a spy whose job it is to resell stolen secrets to their legitimate owners. His "Zone" is the Mediterranean. It is the early 21st century and he is on his last mission, taking a train from... (more)
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  Das Trockene und das Feuchte: Ein kurzer Einfall in faschistisches Gelände. Mit einem Nachwort von Klaus Theweleit

  by Jonathan Littell

  â??Diesen Text schrieb ich 2002, als ich mit den Recherchen zu einem inzwischen veröffentlichten Buch beschäftigt war. Er entstand aus der Begegnung der Thesen eines brillanten, aber schwer greifbaren Autors - Klaus Theweleit -, mit dem Text eines belgischen Faschisten." Jonathan Littell Ausgestattet mit dem theoretischen Rüstzeug aus Theweleits berühmten Männerphantasien, liest Jonathan Littell den... (more)
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  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  A satirical, allegorical fable of a revolution being corrupted by a wicked, greedy dictator and the blind faith of ignorant citizens, destroying the possibility of a democracy.
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  War with the Newts

  by Karel Čapek

  One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Capek satirizes science, runaway capitalism,... (more)