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  • My Traitor's Heart

    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

    by Rian Malan ...
    An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight

    And Other Stories of Africa

    by Rian Malan ...
    An essay collection that offers "a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa" from the bestselling author of My Traitor's Heart ( The Sunday Times).The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan's remarkable chronicle of South Africa's halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction

    by Sean Christie, Hedley Twidle, J.M. Coetzee, Jonny Steinberg, Antjie Krog, Rian Malan, Bongani Kona, Mark Gevisser, Zanele Mji, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Kimon de Greef, William Dicey, Rustum Kozain, Anton Kannemeyer ...
    From the underworld of zama-zama goldminers to the tragicomic closure of a Cape Town Zoo, from stick fighting to punk rock, game lodges to fruit farms, cricket pitches to mermaids, The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction assembles a range of true stories that are often more far-fetched, and more compelling, than any fiction.Featuring J. M. Coetzee • Kimon de Greef • William Dicey • ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love in a Tweet

    by Rian Malan ...
    I ve believed in God my whole life. But as everything fell apart in 2021, I leaned on Him in a whole new way. When Covid took my job and my stability, I turned to the Bible for comfort and help. Devouring the 727,969 words of scripture in 3 months was like eating through the entire menu of the finest restaurant in the world. I tasted and saw that the Lord is good, and I couldn t keep that goodness ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • My Life Growing up White During Apartheid in South Africa

    by Philip Hummel ...
    This book is a short collection of memories about being white and living in South Africa during Apartheid. I wrote this book for the reader to easily understand what it was like to live in this environment.It is not a history lesson, but some personal experiences that I went through living in South Africa at the time. Living through apartheid I never even realized that it even existed, because we ... Read more

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  • Band of Angels

    The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

    by Kate Cooper ...
    "A distinguished ancient historian's elegant study of the extraordinary women who helped lay the foundations of the early Christian church" ( Kirkus Reviews).According to most recorded history, women in the ancient world lived invisibly. In Band of Angels, historian Kate Cooper has pieced together their story from the few contemporary accounts that have survived. Through painstaking detective work ... Read more

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  • We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

    Stories from Rwanda

    by Philip Gourevitch ...
    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Peter the Great: His Life and World

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history—from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great“Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.”—**The New York Times Book ReviewAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nothing to Envy

    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    by Barbara Demick ...
    An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemicNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTIn this landmark addition to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Secrets of Station X

    How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war

    by Michael Smith ...
    The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze.No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one of the earliest accounts. Using recently released secret files, along with personal interviews with many of ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kitchens of the Great Midwest

    A Novel

    by J. Ryan Stradal ...
    **“A sweet and savory treat.” —People“An impressive feat of narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too fast to realize just how ingenious they are.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Pick**From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota, Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a novel about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who ... Read more

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  • The Life and Loves of a He Devil

    A Memoir

    by Graham Norton ...
    'I defy anyone not to snort, howl and recoil' The Sunday Times**'Full of wicked asides, tart observations and sharp remarks that could only have originated in Graham Norton's witty brain.' Terry WoganLooking around the room I saw what life really was. It was made up of my passions. I saw my life reflected back at me. People I liked, people I loved, people I had shared half a century with. All the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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