Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia
8 best books like Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia (Catherine Merridale): The Wall, The Violent Bear It Away, A Little History of the World, The Burgess Boys, A Grief Observed, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933, Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
| Author | John Lanchester |
| ISBN | 1324001631 |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374505241 |
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher...
A Little History of the World
| Author | E.H. Gombrich |
| ISBN | 0300108834 |
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was...
| Author | Elizabeth Strout |
| ISBN | 1400067685 |
Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning...
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: "I am grateful to Lewis for having the courage to yell,...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| ISBN | 0771009305 |
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented...
Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health
| Author | Joel Fuhrman |
| ISBN | 0062286706 |
Do you want to eat delicious food that allows you to lose weight and keep it off permanently without hunger or deprivation?
Do you want to throw away your medications and recover from chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes?
Do you want to maintain your good...
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
| Author | Deborah E. Lipstadt |
| ISBN | 0060593776 |
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than...
