Elizabeth's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:20:35 -0800 60 Elizabeth's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Rivals (Rutshire Chronicles #2)]]> 10797920 Who will take the Cotswold Crown?Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport.Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon.As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.---------------------------------------'Jilly Cooper is the very best ... elegant, glamourous, wonderful fun' Daily Mail'I couldn't put it down' Sunday Express'A combination of drama, sex, and good social comedy ... unputdownable' The Sunday Times]]> 724 Jilly Cooper Elizabeth 4 4.35 1988 Rivals (Rutshire Chronicles #2)
author: Jilly Cooper
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China]]> 13005587
Through the story of three generations of women in her own family � the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself � Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China's twentieth century.

Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.]]> 720 Jung Chang 0007379870 Elizabeth 5 4.48 1991 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
author: Jung Chang
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.48
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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]]> Patriot 211144028 The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.

Alexei Navalny began writing PATRIOT shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted � and will come.

In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.

Written with the passion, wit, candour and bravery for which he was justly acclaimed, PATRIOT is Navalny’s final letter to the a moving account of his last years spent in the most brutal prison on earth; a reminder of why the principles of individual freedom matter so deeply; and a rousing call to continue the work for which he sacrificed his life.

‘This book is a testament not only to Alexei’s life, but to his unwavering commitment to the fight against dictatorship � a fight he gave everything for, including his life. Through its pages, readers will come to know the man I loved deeply � a man of profound integrity and unyielding courage. Sharing his story will not only honour his memory but also inspire others to stand up for what is right and to never lose sight of the values that truly matter.� � Yulia Navalnaya]]> 481 Alexei Navalny 1529926777 Elizabeth 5 4.78 2024 Patriot
author: Alexei Navalny
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.78
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rating: 5
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]]> Broken April 12227932 219 Ismail Kadare Elizabeth 5 3.78 1978 Broken April
author: Ismail Kadare
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1978
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Church of Fear: The True Story of a Journalist's Epic Clash with the Church of Scientology]]> 41606333 AWARD-WINING JOURNALIST JOHN SWEENEY TELLS THE STORY OF HIS EPIC CLASH WITH THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY


'A bold and swashbuckling reporter...let him shout: at least he shouts the truth' Mail on Sunday


'Gripping' The Economist


'A brave book' Liverpool Daily Post


'Blackly comic' The New Humanist


Tom Cruise and John Travolta say the Church of Scientology is a force for good. Others disagree.


Award-winning journalist John Sweeney investigated the Church for more than half a decade. During that time he was intimidated, spied on and followed and the results were spectacular: Sweeney lost his temper with the Church's spokesman on camera and his infamous 'exploding tomato' clip was seen by millions around the world.


In THE CHURCH OF FEAR Sweeney tells the full story of his experiences for the first time and paints a devastating picture of this strange organisation, from former Scientologists who tell heartbreaking stories of families torn apart and lives ruined to its current followers who say it is the solution to many of mankind's problems.


This is the real story of the Church by the reporter who was brave enough to take it on.

]]> 370 John Sweeney Elizabeth 5 4.18 2013 The Church of Fear: The True Story of a Journalist's Epic Clash with the Church of Scientology
author: John Sweeney
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> Don't You Forget About Me 34109621
Reeling from the indignity of a double dumping on the same day, Georgina snatches at the next job that she’s offered—barmaid in a newly opened pub, which just so happens to run by the boy she fell in love with at school: Lucas McCarthy. And whereas Georgina (voted Most Likely to Succeed in her school yearbook) has done nothing but dead-end jobs in the last twelve years, Lucas has not only grown into a broodingly handsome man, but also has turned into an actual grown-up along the way, with a business and a dog.

Meeting Lucas again not only throws Georgina’s rackety present into sharp relief, but also brings a dark secret from her past bubbling to the surface. Only she knows the truth about what happened on the last day of school, and why she’s allowed it to chase her all these years…]]> 433 Mhairi McFarlane 0008169322 Elizabeth 4 3.82 2019 Don't You Forget About Me
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name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[When you Wear the Blue (The Nostrils, $ 4)]]> 37508665
When a colleague’s car is found abandoned near a popular suicide spot, DS Pritchard and his team must choose between their loyalty to a fellow officer, who is in desperate need of their help, and their allegiance to the Metropolitan Police.]]> 385 Jonathan Cox Elizabeth 4 4.60 When you Wear the Blue (The Nostrils, $ 4)
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name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.60
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]]> <![CDATA[In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder]]> 57200344 'Groundbreaking' OBSERVER'Blows assumptions about abusive relationships out of the water' CAITLIN MORAN'Offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives' INDEPENDENTEvery four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner � and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic.For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder.Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse � while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.]]> 257 Jane Monckton Smith 1526613190 Elizabeth 5 4.75 2021 In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
author: Jane Monckton Smith
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.75
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others]]> 56074253 The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenly it's not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend this whole election...'

In UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others, BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel presents a diary of an election like we've never quite seen before.

Experience life as a reporter on the campaign trail, as the election heats up and a global pandemic slowly sweeps in. As American lives are lost at a devastating rate, the presidential race becomes a battle for the very soul of the nation - challenging not just the Trump presidency, but the very institutions of American democracy itself.
In this highly personal account of reporting on America in 2020, Jon Sopel takes you behind the scenes of a White House in crisis and an election in turmoil, expertly laying bare the real story of the presidential campaign in a panoramic account of an election and a year like no other.]]> 363 Jon Sopel Elizabeth 5 4.30 2021 UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others
author: Jon Sopel
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> The Stillwater Girls 40258215 The Thinnest Air.

Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return.

As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. A brutal winter is bearing down. Then comes the stranger. He claims to be looking for the girls� mother, and he’s not leaving without them.

To escape, Wren and her sister must break the rule they’ve grown up with: never go beyond the forest.

Past the thicket of dread, they come upon a house on the other side of the pines. This is where Wren and Sage must confront something more chilling than the unknowable. They’ll discover what’s been hidden from them, what they’re running from, and the secrets that have left them in the dark their entire lives.]]> 273 Minka Kent 1542090105 Elizabeth 5 4.14 2019 The Stillwater Girls
author: Minka Kent
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl with the Louding Voice]]> 48746177 All you have are your words.

Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education.

As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni's life amounts to this: four goats, two bags of rice, some chickens and a new TV. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes in her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. No one but Adunni...

As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless servant, fourteen-year-old Adunni is repeatedly told that she is nothing. But Adunni won't be silenced. She is determined to find her voice - in a whisper, in song, in broken English - until she can speak for herself, for the girls like Rebecca who came before, and for all the girls who will follow.

]]> 392 Abi Daré 1529359252 Elizabeth 5 4.55 2020 The Girl with the Louding Voice
author: Abi Daré
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.55
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rating: 5
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]]> Rebecca's Choice 48655924
It is 1887 and Queen Victoria is on the throne. Businessman and meteorologist Geoffrey de Roussier is passionate about his weather station and railways, yet little of his passion seems to filter through to his shy, naïve young wife, Rebecca.
Following his tragic demise, Rebecca discovers that Geoffrey’s railroad investments have failed, leaving her penniless. As the past threatens to engulf her, Rebecca realises she has to make a choice. Gwilym Llewellyn, Geoffrey’s trusted friend and advisor, has an emotional debt to repay to Geoffrey and meets Rebecca to offer her a solution. Meanwhile Rebecca has found passion in another direction �
One man will save her from destitution, the other will offer her the love and excitement that she aches for. Whom will she choose?
The book has a wonderful setting in Cardiff, South Wales. If you like a good mix of a charming, evocative depiction of the Victorian era and a modern-thinking heroine then Rebecca’s Choice is the novel for you.
This is Heidi Gallacher’s debut novel, a historical Victorian romance of 62,000 words. Pick up ‘Rebecca’s Choice� today to lose yourself in this wonderful story!

]]> 211 Heidi Gallacher Elizabeth 0 currently-reading 4.27 Rebecca's Choice
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]]> The Dilemma 46220049 Knowing the truth will destroy her. Keeping it secret will destroy him.

It’s Livia’s 40th birthday, and her husband Adam is throwing her the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never had. Everyone she loves will be there, except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. But Livia is secretly glad Marnie won’t be there.

Livia has recently uncovered a secret about their daughter which, if revealed, will shake the foundation of their family to its core. She needs to tell Adam, but she’s waiting until the party is over so they can have this last happy time together.

Adam, meanwhile, has his own surprise for Livia: he’s arranged for Marnie to secretly fly back for the party. But before Marnie arrives, Adam hears some terrible news. Now he too is faced with a dilemma: Does he share what he's learned with his wife? Is hiding the truth the same as telling a lie? And how far are Adam and Livia willing to go to protect the ones they love—and give each other a last few hours of happiness?]]> 344 B.A. Paris 000824491X Elizabeth 0 currently-reading 3.89 2019 The Dilemma
author: B.A. Paris
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)]]> 29564789 The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.

‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?�

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.

Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?

With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.]]> 879 Hilary Mantel Elizabeth 0 currently-reading 4.54 2020 The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
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average rating: 4.54
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]]> Exercises in Style 319790 Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told ninety-nine more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms.]]> 204 Raymond Queneau 0811207897 Elizabeth 0 to-read 4.09 1947 Exercises in Style
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name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1947
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]]> Fatherland 18879231 1 Robert Harris Elizabeth 0 currently-reading 4.27 1992 Fatherland
author: Robert Harris
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1992
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]]> The Medea Complex 18685624
1885. Anne Stanbury wakes up in a strange bed, having been kidnapped from her home. As the panic settles in, she realizes she has been committed to a lunatic asylum, deemed insane and therefore unfit to stand trial for an unspeakable crime. But all is not as it seems�.

Edgar Stanbury, her husband as well as a grieving father, is torn between helping his confined wife recover her sanity and seeking revenge for his ruined life. But Anne’s future rests wholly in the hands of Dr. George Savage, chief medical officer of Bethlem Royal Hospital.

The Medea Complex is the darkly compelling story of a lunatic, a lie, and a shocking revelation that elucidates the difference between madness and evil�.]]> 272 Rachel Florence Roberts 149365117X Elizabeth 3 3.37 2013 The Medea Complex
author: Rachel Florence Roberts
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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What a shame this book didn't have a proper edit. The idea was good, the pacing held your attention and the settings were intriguing. However, there were so many spelling and grammatical errors that I nearly gave up, as well as factual errors. People are consistently "loathe to do things", and I have to admit someone being "of that elk" made me laugh out loud. That said, it did interest me enough to finish it. Please please please find an editor.
]]> <![CDATA[The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)]]> 10155 272 Arthur Conan Doyle 0812967259 Elizabeth 5 3.92 1912 The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1912
rating: 5
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I've recently re-read this, the first dinosaur adventure ever, and although it's very white man rules it's of its time. The only thing that used to bother me was the idea of an unscalable plateau - but having now been to Venezuela and seen tepuis, these table-topped mountains, I now believe every word. Well, nearly...
]]> <![CDATA[Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent!]]> 17370223 With his backpack, his walking boots and the cheapest, most unreliable tent that money can buy, Lown sets off on an ill-fated camping expedition around the national parks and nature reserves of Germany. His mission: to explore Germany’s rustic countryside and historical towns, meet the local people, eat their cheese and drink their beer. Whether riding a draisine in the Uckermark National Park, witnessing the spectacle of rabbit showjumping in Jena or bathtub racing on the Edersee, Lown takes in the sights and dissects the culture as he zigzags his way around all sixteen of Germany’s states. But his tent doesn’t fare quite so well. After it survived an act of wanton vandalism, battled against inclement weather and was torn to shreds by a fox with a rapacious appetite and a penchant for Knackwurst, Lown is finally forced to concede that buying a cheap tent wasn’t the wisest of decisions.]]> 407 Chris Lown Elizabeth 5 3.92 2012 Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent!
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients]]> 15795155
All these problems have been protected from public scrutiny because they’re too complex to capture in a sound bite. But Dr. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we should all be able to understand precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct on a global scale affects us. In his own words, “the tricks and distortions documented in these pages are beautiful, intricate, and fascinating in their details.� With Goldacre’s characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before.]]> 448 Ben Goldacre 0865478007 Elizabeth 5 4.09 2012 Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
author: Ben Goldacre
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> The Owl Killers 5263374 Company of Liars, hailed as “a jewel of a medieval mystery�* and “an atmospheric tale of treachery and magic,�** comes a magnificent new novel of an embattled village and a group of courageous women who are set on a collision course—in an unforgettable storm of secrets, lust, and rage.

England, 1321. The tiny village of Ulewic teeters between survival and destruction, faith and doubt, God and demons. For shadowing the villagers� lives are men cloaked in masks and secrecy, ruling with violence, intimidation, and terrifying fiery rites: the Owl Masters.

But another force is touching Ulewic—a newly formed community built and served only by women. Called a beguinage, it is a safe harbor of service and faith in defiance of the all-powerful Church.

Behind the walls of this sanctuary, women have gathered from all walks of life: a skilled physician, a towering former prostitute, a cook, a local convert. But life in Ulewic is growing more dangerous with each passing day. The women are the subject of rumors, envy, scorn, and fury…until the daughter of Ulewic’s most powerful man is cast out of her home and accepted into the beguinage—and battle lines are drawn.

Into this drama are swept innocents and conspirators: a parish priest trying to save himself from his own sins…a village teenager, pregnant and terrified…a woman once on the verge of sainthood, now cast out of the Church.…With Ulewic ravaged by flood and disease, and with villagers driven by fear, a secret inside the beguinage will draw the desperate and the depraved—until masks are dropped, faith is tested…and every lie is exposed.

*New York Times Book Review
**Marie Claire]]> 640 Karen Maitland 0718153200 Elizabeth 5 3.81 2009 The Owl Killers
author: Karen Maitland
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> The Song of Achilles 11250317
Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.]]> 352 Madeline Miller 1408816032 Elizabeth 3 4.38 2011 The Song of Achilles
author: Madeline Miller
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)]]> 13507212 9780805090031)

Though he battled for years to marry her, Henry VIII has become disenchanted with the audacious Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son, and her sharp intelligence and strong will have alienated his old friends and the noble families of England.

When the discarded Katherine, Henry's first wife, dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice, setting in motion a dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason.

At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over a few terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally himself with his enemies. What price will he pay for Annie's head?]]> 412 Hilary Mantel Elizabeth 5 4.26 2012 Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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average rating: 4.26
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea]]> 6178648 Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.

Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.

Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects—average North Korean citizens—fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.

Nothing to Envy is a groundbreaking addition to the literature of totalitarianism and an eye-opening look at a closed world that is of increasing global importance.]]> 316 Barbara Demick 0385523904 Elizabeth 5 4.43 2009 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
author: Barbara Demick
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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