The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia
10 best books like The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia (Michael A. Sells): Chances Are..., Kim, Homage to Catalonia, At Briarwood School for Girls, The Edge of Sadness, A Fable, Plays 1937-1955, Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II, If Only They Could Talk, The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War: A History. Marko Attila Hoare
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 1101947748 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0140183523 |
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.
Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0156421178 |
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
At Briarwood School for Girls
| Author | Michael Knight |
| ISBN | 0802128424 |
It's 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she's pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control.
Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans to build...
| Author | Edwin O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0829421238 |
“A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age.”—New England Quarterly
“A deeply felt and eloquently expressed work . . . A quiet, gentle novel of considerable insight and charm . . .”—Library Journal
“O’Connor succeeds in delineating poignantly the...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0394724135 |
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as...
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| ISBN | 1883011868 |
The second volume traces Williams' career as it evolved in his adventurous and sometimes shocking later works, including Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, and Sweet Bird of Youth, plays that deal with acts of horrific violence; the satiric Period of Adjustment, The Night of the Iguana, a...
Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II
| Author | Thomas Childers |
| ISBN | 0201407221 |
On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theater of World War II. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew—where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to fly a B-24 through enemy flak, and who was waiting for them...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0330237837 |
When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs...
The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War: A History. Marko Attila Hoare
| Author | Marko Attila Hoare |
| ISBN | 1849042411 |
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The first monograph, design manual, and manifesto by Michael Bierut, one of the world’s most renowned graphic designers—a career retrospective that showcases more than thirty-five of his most noteworthy projects for clients as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Yale School of Architecture,...
Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redemption
| Author | Michael Sugich |
| ISBN | 0989364003 |
'Hearts Turn' is a singular and gripping exploration of the act of 'tawba', a Qur'anic term commonly translated as repentance. In English, repentance is a forbidding word that suggests a puritanical finality. But in Arabic the term 'tawba' is dynamic, meaning to 'turn' or 'return'. 'At-Tawwab' is...
| Author | Tom Piazza |
| ISBN | 0061238619 |
In City of Refuge, a heart-wrenching novel from Tom Piazza, the author of the award-winning Why New Orleans Matters, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront Hurricane Katrina, a storm that will change the course of their lives. Reaching across America—from the neighborhoods...
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
| Author | Lynne Olson |
| ISBN | 0812997352 |
An engrossing account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a refuge for the...
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
A gripping new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the crowd of journalists, Cabinet Ministers and well-wishers waiting at Heston...
Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro
Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a bicycle with the grand ambition of shedding a few pounds before going off to college. He soon fell into racing and discovered he was a natural, riding his way into a pro contract after just one season despite...
Standing Cyclist: Flirting with Wisdom, One Breath, One Mile at a Time
| Author | Frank Angelo Cavaluzzi |
"The inspiring true story of a quirky misfit athlete who discovers the magnificent, liberating truth of middle age through loss, Asthma and a unique style of adventure cycling called Rolling."
Frank Angelo Cavaluzzi is more than a lifelong bicycle enthusiastic. He is a rolling student of...
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
| Author | Jürgen Habermas |
| ISBN | 0262581086 |
This is Jürgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation...
