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"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984) is an oral history of World War II compiled by Studs Terkel. The work received the 1985 Pulitzer...

The Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War was a three volume set of books, based on the wartime work of the Historical Section...

The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated into...

The Covert-One series is a sequence of thriller novels written by several authors after the death of Robert Ludlum, presumably according to some of his...

City of the Beasts (Spanish: La ciudad de las bestias) is the first young adult novel by Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. Published in 2002, the...

Miguel Street is a collection of linked short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago. The stories draw on the author's childhood memories...

The Sorcerer in the North (The Sorcerer of the North in the United States) is the fifth book in the Ranger's Apprentice series by Australian author John...

The Parsifal Mosaic is a spy fiction novel by Robert Ludlum published in 1982. Michael Havelock (an anglicized version of Mikhail Havlíček) is a naturalized...

God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène. It is a fictional treatment based on an historic railroad strike in colonial Senegal...

Lost Souls is a 1992 horror novel by American writer Poppy Z. Brite, his debut novel. It is the only novel-length adventure of Brite's 'Steve and Ghost'...

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey is a book by the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. Published in 1981, the book describes a six-month journey across...

The Loss of El Dorado, by the Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, is a history book about Venezuela and Trinidad. It was published in 1969. The title refers...

The Stud is the second novel by British novelist Jackie Collins, published in 1969 by W. H. Allen & Co. with jacket photography by Lewis Morley. The names...

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History is a 2006 memoir by Jonathan Franzen, who received the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The Corrections...

The Latham Diaries (ISBN 0-522-85215-7) is a political memoir by the former Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader, Mark Latham. The...

By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer is a nonfiction book by a former katsa (case officer) in the Mossad, Victor Ostrovsky...

Smoky Joe's Cafe, a novel by Bryce Courtenay, deals with the psychological and physical scars on Thommo left by the Vietnam War and Agent Orange. When...

The Woman from Rome (Italian: La romana) is a 1947 novel by Alberto Moravia about the intersecting lives of many characters, chief among them a prostitute...

Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton is a 2007 book by career smuggler David McMillan describing...

More Twisted (ISBN 9780641883965) is a 2006 collection of short stories by crime writer Jeffery Deaver. The book was published in 2006 by Simon & Schuster...