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My Choice to Abuse Drugs Erekose, Legendary Anonimous
An amazing book which has been circulating the internet for a year now. No one knows who wrote it, and precisely when - perhaps it was done by an internet spiti?:) Anyway, it deals with the issues ...
Living to Tell the Tale Márquez, Gabriel García
'Tell him the only thing I want in life is to be a writer, and that's what I'm going to be.' In Living to Tell the Tale , one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, Gabriel Garcia ...
Brighton Rock Greene, Graham
Arriving in 1930s Brighton to pose as the Kolley Kibber for the Daily Messenger 's holiday competition, the lonely and nervous Hale becomes aware that he is being stalked by a local gang. After ...
Father Greg & the Homeboys Fremon, Celeste
'Father Greg requests, 'Hold my calls'. But when a prison inmate gets a chance to phone, the priest reneges, 'Well, let me take just this one.... A young man comes by, dressed for success, to ...
The Weight of the World Bourdieu, Pierre
This book can be read like a series of short stories: the story of a steel worker who was laid off after twenty years in the same factory and who now struggles to support his family on ...
California Red (A Life in the American Communist party) Ray Healey,Dorothy and Isserman, Maurice,
'The most notorious figure in the Southern California Communist Party, she had already made her mark as an agitator while in her teens. Steinbeck fashioned one of his farm labor organizer ...
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
If you felt that Bertha, Rochester's mad wife in the attic, received a raw deal in Jane Eyre, then Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is the book for you. This is a book that tells hidden ...
A Long Way Gone Beah, Ishmael
Ishmeal Beah describes his life escaping civl war in Sierra Leone as a young boy. His masterful narrative expertly communicates his thoughts and emotions as you accompany him on his journey. ...
L'intrus Nancy, Jean-Luc
In this personal autopathography, Jean-Luc Nancy provides a philosophical and poetic reflection on the experience of a heart transplant followed by lymphatic cancer. His highly evocative text ...
On Beauty Smith, Zadie
How do I love this book? So much that I read it twice within a six-month period and dreamt about one of its protagonists. It is one of the best novels I've ever read. Zadie Smith skewers academic ...
Popular Music Niemi, Mikael
The story in Popular Music takes place in the 60s, more specifically in the Swedish town of Pajala, located above the arctic circle, close to the Finnish border. With approximately 7 months of ...
Unsentimental Journey: A Report Drach, Albert
Barbara Basting writes about the German edition of Unsentimentale Reise Literary testimonies of Holocaust survivors - from Primo Levi, Jorge Semprun and Ruth Klüger to Louis Begley and ...
