The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry4 reviews Ilya Ehrenburg, Vasily Grossman Transaction Publishers, 2003 The first great witness of the Shoah + A Comprehensive Treatise on the Fate of Eastern European Jewry + The Black Book + Question             Sonechka: A Novella and Stories Ludmila Ulitskaya Schocken, 2005 The Los Angeles Times said of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Funeral Party , “In America we have friends, family, lovers, and parents–four kinds of love. Could it really be that in Russia they have more? Ludmila Ulitskaya makes it seem so.” In Sonechka: A Novella and Stories , Ulitskaya brings us tales of these other loves in her richly lyrical prose, populated with ...             Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account49 reviews Arcade Publishing, 1993 Gripping Horrific Account of Life in the Auschwitz Death Camp + Bone-chilling account of Aushwitz-Birkenau + Great description of events!! Dr. Miklos Nyiszli has written (1960) a graphic, gruesome, first-hand account of his time working as a doctor in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Due to his previous medical training in medicine and pathology, Dr. Nyiszli was spared by the hideously inhuman Dr. Josef Mengele, to be the medical ...             The Galosh2 reviews Mikhail Zoshchenko Overlook Hardcover, 2006 The more things change..... + Interesting piece of history This book of very, very short stories is delightful and does indeed bring to mind the old saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same". These stories written over eighty years ago are a window into life in the new "Soviet Union" of the 1920's and perhaps a window into life in ...             The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists584 reviews Neil Strauss William Morrow, 2005 Good Read! + Highly Entertaining + Entertaining and Informative + Man's Sex in the City + Entertaining... Even For A Girl             Infidel272 reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali Free Press, 2007 Should be Made into a Movie!! + This woman is so brave + An important and interesting read + A Powerful Book That is Relevant To Our Troubled Times             Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine5 reviews Omer Bartov Princeton University Press, 2007 A very important tribute + Excellent account of an inredibly sad situation + Interesting look at Galicia + Time does not heal             Kafka on the Shore180 reviews Haruki Murakami Vintage, 2006 Weird is what you pay for... + Great fiction from a master of the surreal + yes to Kafka ... and weird is what you get, with Haruki Murakami. But this novel is not merely full-blown weird; it' s about the meaning of Weird, not just in the modern sense of 'bizarre' but in the root sense also. 'Weird' is an Old Norse word meaning something like "the uncanny ability to influence Fate." ...             Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)26 reviews Peter Hessler Harper Perennial, 2007 An Amazing Book + A Different Side of China + Oracle Bones + Cannot Recommend This Book Highly Enough + An Honest View of Today's China             Thunderstruck152 reviews Erik Larson Three Rivers Press, 2007 An Artful Reconstruction of History + "More than a saga of violence" A wonderful, exciting, and vivid look at what life may have been like for and in the time of Guglielmo Marconi, (often cited as the inventor of but, more accurately, the first to successfully commercialize wireless communication). The author painstakingly reconstructs many events in Marconi's life ...             Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World145 reviews Tracy Kidder Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004 Mountains Beyond Mountains + Learn about World health crisis here! + Recomendation + A Rare "Must-Read" Book - Really! + Justice             Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)135 reviews Haruki Murakami Vintage, 1993 Patience is a virtue + another catching Murakami adventure + Another trip down the rabbit hole + A wonderful novel about the mind and the desire for immortality             Gomorrah35 reviews Roberto Saviano Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 What happens in Naples happens everywhere... + The other mobs in Italy + Interesting look into real-life crime I was stationed in Naples from '91-'94. I roamed all over as military police. I saw corners of Naples that many Americans living there never even dream of visiting. My knowledge was based in hear-say though and I have now many years later begun to study the city and the country to better understand ...             Francesco's Venice: The Dramatic History of the World's Most Beautiful City7 reviews Francesco da Mosto BBC Books, 2007 Fantastic read for anyone interested in Venice + The best introduction to the history of Venice + Total look at Venice + Oh La La To Be in Venice....             Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend25 reviews Bart D. Ehrman Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 ALL ABOUT JESUS'S CLOSEST FOLLOWERS + PETER PAUL AND MARY + Peter I know, and Paul I have heard about, but who is this Mary? + A MUST READ FOR SEMINARY STUDENTS             The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel289 reviews Haruki Murakami Vintage, 1998 Patience and Growth Yields Great Reward + A certain "something" that is bizarre and intriguing + Excellent read + Think for yourself + Chronicle of the Lost             River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny7 reviews Jeffrey Tayler Mariner Books, 2007 A vivid adventure comes to life in a compelling 'you are there' story. + A mentally satisfying challenge - not just the physical difficulties + Too flowery, but a good tale + River of No Reprieve + The Other Russia             The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB63 reviews Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin Basic Books, 1999 Very important book! + Andrew paints a vivid portrait of Soviet foreign policy + The Art of Deception + History all over again             Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA136 reviews Tim Weiner Doubleday, 2007 Excellent discussion of the CIA + An amazing history of the CIA. + A Wealth of information This is a fairly comprehensive study of the CIA and its history. The author has added very extensive endnotes. It evenly covers the sixty year history of the agency and the various manifestations. The most interesting past is the beginning sections, where the author relies on recent declassified ...             The Master and Margarita341 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov Vintage, 1996 A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE + "a liberating, exuberant social and political satire (Moscow) combined with a profound moral and political allegory (Jerusalem); + seductive masterpiece + The Devil Went Down to Moscow + READ THIS!