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    <title>Mine Were of Trouble</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Spain, 1936. Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup against a democratically elected, Soviet-backed, government. The country is thrown into chaos as centuries-old tensions return to the forefront. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards choose sides and engage in the most devastating combat since the First World War. For loyalists to the Republic, the fight is seen as one for equality and their idea of progress. For the rebels, the struggle is a preemptive strike by tradition against an attempted communist takeover.<br /><br />Thousands of foreigners, too, join the struggle. Most fight with the Soviet-sponsored International Brigades or other militias aligned with the loyalist “Republicans”. Only a few side with the rebel “Nationalists”. One of these rare volunteers for the Nationalists was Peter Kemp, a young British law student. Kemp, despite having little training or command of the Spanish language, was moved by the Nationalist struggle against international Communism. Using forged documents, he sneaked into Spain and joined a traditionalist militia, the Requetés, with which he saw intense fighting. Later, he volunteered to join the legendary and ruthless Spanish Foreign Legion, where he distinguished himself with heroism. Because of this bravery, he was one of the few foreign volunteers granted an private audience with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.<br /><br />Kemp published his story in 1957, one of the only English accounts of the war from the Nationalist perspective, after a prestigious military career with the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy]]></title>
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    <book_id>6640471</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.<br /><br />When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals—the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict.<br /><br />By war’s end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country’s greatest disaster. <p> An understanding of the Thirty Years War is essential to comprehending modern European history. Wilson’s masterful book will stand as the definitive account of this epic conflict.</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Peter H. Wilson</author_name>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Very in depth treatment of the war, could have easily been broken down into several books based on each faction. Well done. ]]></user_review>
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                                      author: Peter H. Wilson<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Very in depth treatment of the war, could have easily been broken down into several books based on each faction. Well done. <br/>
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    <title>The Kangaroo Chronicles</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Marc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana. It's a classical Berlin flat-sharing community, where the deep questions of life are debated:<br />Is lying in a hammock already a kind of passive resistance? Must the Kangaroo place its pouch onto the conveyor belt at the airport security check? Did the Kangaroo really fight for the Vietcong? And why is it addicted to champagne truffles?]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Marc-Uwe Kling</author_name>
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                                      author: Marc-Uwe Kling<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.95<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall]]></title>
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    <book_id>226369</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Anna Funder’s Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany.<br /><br />In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited and East Germany ceased to exist.<br /><br />Anna Funder’s best-selling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a 16-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary ‘Mik Jegger’ of the East, once declared by the authorities - to his face - ‘no longer to exist’. And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods. Funder’s powerful account of that brutal world has become a contemporary classic.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Anna Funder</author_name>
    <isbn>1862076553</isbn>
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    <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
    <book_published>2003</book_published>
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                                      author: Anna Funder<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.20<br/>
                                      book published: 2003<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Devil Wears Another Man's Face]]></title>
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    <book_id>252272597</book_id>
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    <author_name>Tripp Ainsworth</author_name>
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    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[If you don’t want the communists to win, you read this book. Also, read it because it is a fun adventure and Tripp is a great writer. Can’t wait for the next one!]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
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                                      average rating: 5.00<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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                                      date added: 2026/08/15<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>If you don’t want the communists to win, you read this book. Also, read it because it is a fun adventure and Tripp is a great writer. Can’t wait for the next one!<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times]]></title>
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    <book_id>73989</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Dracula, Prince of Many Faces reveals the extraordinary life and times of the infamous Vlad Dracula of Romania (1431 - 1476), nicknamed the Impaler. Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even today, Vlad Dracula was surely one of the most intriguing figures to have stalked the corridors of European and Asian capitals in the fifteenth century.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>261</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Radu R. Florescu</author_name>
    <isbn>0316286567</isbn>
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    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
    <book_published>1989</book_published>
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                                      author: Radu R. Florescu<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.03<br/>
                                      book published: 1989<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:19:11 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Litany of Vise</title>
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    <book_id>242779100</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Lieutenant Olivia “Vise” Argenti serves in the Navy of Europa, a minor, neutral power orbiting Jupiter, caught between the remnants of Earth’s superpowers after World War III turned the planet into ash. While Mars and Venus flex fleets and send threats across the void, Europa clings to relevance with aging tech, fragile alliances, and patrol routes that rarely see action.<br />But when a pirate strike leaves an outpost in flames and an entire mech squad dead, Olivia’s team is rearmed and deployed to the asteroid belt to track down the killers. What begins as a hunt through storms and shadows turns into something far stranger, and far more dangerous, than anyone expected.<br />Haunted by loss, bound by duty, and driven by a quiet faith she barely admits to herself, Olivia finds that the line between sailor and survivor gets thinner with every mission. Especially when the enemy might not be entirely human.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Tripp Ainsworth</author_name>
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    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Fantastic book. Having finished the Smokepit Fairytales series, I wasn’t sure how to get into the new characters or if I could. Well, it was too easy. Tripp is a fantastic writer and this is a super fun adventure. ]]></user_review>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.60<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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                                      date added: 2026/07/22<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Fantastic book. Having finished the Smokepit Fairytales series, I wasn’t sure how to get into the new characters or if I could. Well, it was too easy. Tripp is a fantastic writer and this is a super fun adventure. <br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom]]></title>
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    <book_id>230733484</book_id>
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                                      author: Raymond Ibrahim<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.54<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2026/06/24<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Strong recommendation, great book using primary source material from both sides. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:45:19 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Last Sunset Scene; Smokepit Fairytales Part XII]]></title>
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    <author_name>Tripp Ainsworth</author_name>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[This was a lot of fun, despite the anti-Ohio sentiment. When Tripp gets the show for this, I can only hope that justice is done to the series. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 5.00<br/>
                                      book published: <br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: 2026/06/10<br/>
                                      date added: 2026/06/10<br/>
                                      shelves: <br/>
                                      review: <br/>This was a lot of fun, despite the anti-Ohio sentiment. When Tripp gets the show for this, I can only hope that justice is done to the series. <br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Order of the Caduceus; Smokepit Fairytales Part XI]]></title>
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    <book_id>204553629</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[With the relics united, our heros return to the great white north.<br /><br /><br />“If you think you know violence, heartbreak, humor, revenge, love and death, think again. This book has it all and then some!” -Damien Larkin<br /><br />“I’m ten books in now and still have no clue where this is ending. It’s so frustrating. The detail in the scenes boarders on brilliant or insane. I’m hoping it’s the former due to the fact that I’m understanding it. Hope you don’t have a learning impaired speech problem with the letter “P” or this will possibly put pressure on pursuing. Pun intended. The action scenes are epic and you are still left wondering what the hell will happen next.” -Michele Packard<br /><br />“Nowhere near what I thought was going to happen. Fantastic read.” -Matthew Kupcikevicius]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>314</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Tripp Ainsworth</author_name>
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    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.90</average_rating>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.90<br/>
                                      book published: <br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: 2026/06/01<br/>
                                      date added: 2026/06/01<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Tripp continues to deliver on this fun adventure. <br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages]]></title>
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    <book_id>57347786</book_id>
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    <author_name>Dan Jones</author_name>
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                                      author: Dan Jones<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.35<br/>
                                      book published: 2021<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 May 2026 05:49:09 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Phantom in the Moonlight, Smokepit Fairytales X]]></title>
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    <book_id>204515573</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Set out over the mountains into the east, the last bearer of the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor meets the young warriors of an ancient order who are on a holy quest to gather the relics that would raise their empire from the ashes. Pit against the terrors of what rose from the ashes of The War of Destruction, the hero of the Great Western War must find his friend.<br /><br />"Without giving spoilers, after investing already in nine books in this series, the beginning chapters were a gut punch. That reaction quickly faded to what is going on here? To the point of questioning all that I knew before. Was I drinking too much during the other books? Did I forget some things? But, it ultimately didn’t matter as you are so invested in the characters, you are going to with them down this path - come hell or high water. I ended up at the end so confused, I thought - Where the hell is this taking me?! And then I realized the genius of it, as I was definitely reading the next book to find out.” -Michele Packard, author of the Matti Baker series.<br /><br />“Tripp’s done it again with another cigar smoking, blood and guts, alcohol fuelled bloodbath.” -Damien Larkin, author of BIG RED.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Tripp Ainsworth</author_name>
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    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 5.00<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 May 2026 18:06:04 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Camp of the Saints</title>
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    <book_id>1181058</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[By the year 2000 there will on present projections be seven billion people swarming on the surface of the Earth. And only nine hundred million of them will be white. What will happen when the teeming billions of the so-called Third World—driven by unbearable hunger and despair, the inevitable consequences of insensate over-population—descend locust-like on the lush lands of the complacent white nations? <br /><br />Jean Raspail has the rare imagination and courage necessary to face this terrifying question head-on. Readers of whatever color and political persuasion will find in <i>The Camp of the Saints</i> (already a bestseller in France and America) a hypnotically readable novel of compelling power that will disturb, provoke and horrify them by turns. And so powerful is its impact that once you have read it you will need brain surgery to forget it.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Jean Raspail</author_name>
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    <average_rating>3.92</average_rating>
    <book_published>1973</book_published>
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                                      author: Jean Raspail<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.92<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <book_id>15810910</book_id>
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    <author_name>Django Wexler</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blood Makes The Grass Grow: Smokepit Fairytales Part IX]]></title>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Locate, Close With, Destroy: Smokepit Fairytales Part VIII]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Utah expands to what used to Mexico, taking California, Nevada, and Arizona with it. Dark forces must be fought through the light, and no one is safe in the battle for the human race's right to exist.]]></book_description>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Catalan chronicle of Francisco de Moncada]]></title>
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                                      author: Francisco de Moncada<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:10:50 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Last Crusade: Spain 1936</title>
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    <book_id>1092153</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA["Crusade" means a war for the sake of the Cross, a war to protect Christian people from persecution and death on account of their faith in Jesus Christ. Everyone has heard of the crusades of the Middle Ages. But few know of the crusade in our time, which living men still remember, fought for this same purpose only sixty years ago in Spain. In just six months of the year 1936, thirteen bishops and nearly seven thousand priests, seminarians, monks, and nuns were martyred in Spain by enemies of Christianity. It was the greatest clerical bloodletting in so short a span of time since the persecutions on the Church by the ancient Roman emperors. Already Pope John Paul II has beatified some two hundred of these martyrs. Tens of thousands of churches, chapels, and shrines in Spain were pillaged or destroyed. In response, faithful Spanish Catholics proclaimed a crusade. Against all odds the crusaders triumphed, and the Church and the Faith in Spain were saved. This is the story of that crusade, now honored in no other book in print in the English language. Most people who know of the Spanish Civil War do not understand why it was fought or how it was really won. This book will tell you. There is no story like it in the history of the twentieth century.]]></book_description>
    <book id="1092153">
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    <author_name>Warren H. Carroll</author_name>
    <isbn>0931888670</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:10:50 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves>did-not-finish</user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
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                                      author: Warren H. Carroll<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.30<br/>
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                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:10:32 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Eumeswil</title>
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    <book_id>506145</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Originally published in Germany in 1977, when Junger was eighty-two years old, Eumeswil is the great novel of Junger's creative maturity, a masterpiece by a central figure in modern German literature. Eumeswil is a utopian state ruled by the Condor, a general who has installed himself as a dictator and who dominates the capital from a guarded citadel atop a hill - the Casbah. A refined manipulator of power, the Condor despises the democrats who conspire against him. Venator, the narrator of the novel, is a historian whose discreet and efficient services as the Condor's night steward earn him full access to the forbidden zone, at the very heart of power. Every evening, while attending to the Condor and his guests at the Casbah's night bar, Venator keeps a secret journal in which he records the conversations he overhears, delineating the diverse personalities in the Condor's entourage while sketching out an analysis of the different aspects of the psychology of power. Venator's days are spent building a hidden refuge in the mountains, a hermetic retreat where he hopes one day to realize his dreams of utter self-sufficiency. In the meantime, however, he continues to pursue his career as a historian, using the magnificent tool that has been placed at his disposal - the "luminar", a holographic instrument that can summon up any figure or event in human history. Venator, in a word, embodies Junger's ideal of the "anarch" - a heroic figure whose radical skepticism and individualism are not to be confused with mere anarchism. Around the opposite figures of the dictator and the anarch, Junger weaves a hallucinatory and poetic rumination on the nature of history and on the mainsprings of political power. At once tale, essay and philosophical poem, Eumeswil offers a desolate and lucid assessment of totalitarianism by an author who witnessed its horrors firsthand.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Ernst Jünger</author_name>
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                                      author: Ernst Jünger<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:55:17 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Women, Barbarians, and Slaves; Smokepit Fairytales Part VII]]></title>
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    <book_id>59613021</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Margaret Vickers and Zuzane Tkachenko have escaped the pursuing solar fleets, hiding in the only place left to run. Now in an astronomically unlikely alliance, they must find a new way to live their lives on the planet of their forefathers.<br />]]></book_description>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Super fun, as always. Tripp continues to deliver stories that are great and the books are nearly impossible to put down.]]></user_review>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In The Sword of Christ, author Giles Corey examines the transformation of historical Christianity into the deracinated, egalitarian form we see preached today and argues that Christianity must be recaptured and returned to its roots as the foundation of the West. This course correction cannot happen while Christians remain unaware that the organized denominations have largely abandoned orthodox Biblical Christianity in favor of heresies like Christian Zionism and antinationalism, nor can it occur while pagan or secular Westerners remain unaware that the "Christianity" they see preaching the doctrine of dispossession today is a modern aberration that has nothing whatsoever in common with Biblical Christianity, having been usurped by anti-Christian forces.<br />The topics discussed include, among others, an exposition of the history and heretical theology of Christian Zionism, a discussion of Christian ethnonationalism, and an investigation into theories of Christian violence, such as the Crusades. Corey boldly proclaims the ethnonationalist struggle of our day as not only righteous but necessary to fight for the cause of Christ, just as generations of Christians have fought for justice in their own times.<br />Banned by Amazon after its initial release in 2020, Giles Corey's The Sword of Christ is back in a newly-edited second edition, proudly published by Antelope Hill Publishing, with a foreword by evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Six Pistols and a Dagger; Smokepit Fairytales Part VI]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Thatch, Chuck, and Stockton have fled their burdensome lives on Mars in favor of raiding the stars with Hornigold MacCrinain and pirates. The future seems bright until Thatch is twisted into committing a heinous crime that leads down a road too dark to travel. Ambition may be the road to success, but there are no compasses in space and no king on the road to Hell. What goes up crashed back down.]]></book_description>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.90<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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                                      date added: 2026/03/19<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:22:49 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Mourn The Liquid Dew Of Youth; Smokepit Fairytales Part V]]></title>
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    <book_id>44288164</book_id>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.81<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Chainsmoke Your Problems Away; Smokepit Fairytales Part IV]]></title>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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                                      author: Tripp Ainsworth<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.49<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sing Goddess The Wrath Of The Fonz; Smokepit Fairytales Part II]]></title>
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    <book_id>40811485</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The Epic continues! Still politically incorrect, violent, and sexual, if you enjoyed Smokepit Fairytales then you will love the follow Sing Goddess, The Wrath of the Fonz. A war story combined with the supernatural in the style of a classical epic to tell a snarky, uproarious, and very poignant tale mixed with an edgy Sci-Fi and fantasy twist to keep you guessing. While on a NATO training mission gone awry in Latvia the Russian Federation invades the Baltic States. Hank and Doc are stuck in the snow of far off northern lands fighting for survival. Never losing their nerve. However, things go poorly when the Marines push into Russia. Ivan is a formidable opponent, and Death is an equal opportunity employer. Who will survive?]]></book_description>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Another great book by Tripp, fun from start to finish!]]></user_review>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: 2026/02/13<br/>
                                      date added: 2026/02/13<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:04:31 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Most Dangerous Superstition]]></title>
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    <book_id>10836816</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The primary threat to freedom and justice is not greed, or hatred, or any of the other emotions or human flaws usually blamed for such things. Instead, it is one ubiquitous superstition which infects the minds of people of all races, religions and nationalities, which deceives decent, well-intentioned people into supporting and advocating violence and oppression. Even without making human beings one bit more wise or virtuous, removing that one superstition would remove the vast majority of injustice and suffering from the world.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Larken Rose</author_name>
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                                      author: Larken Rose<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.35<br/>
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                                      rating: 2<br/>
                                      read at: 2019/04/30<br/>
                                      date added: 2026/02/13<br/>
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    <title>Smokepit Fairytales</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Hank and his trusty Corpsman, "Doc," only thought they knew what to expect when they were deployed to Iraq, but after getting trapped in an ancient Babylonian temple, things only got weird. After months of combat in a war that wouldn't end, Hank returns to California to face a different type of immigrant, the kind that comes from space.Follow Hank through this wildly imaginative science fiction romp as he tries to figure out what it means to be human, or if he even still is one.]]></book_description>
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    <title>Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror</title>
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    <author_name>Mitchell Lüthi</author_name>
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                                      author: Mitchell Lüthi<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.92<br/>
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    <title>The Anarchist Handbook</title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Seven Days In January: With the 6th SS Mountain Division in Operation Nordwind]]></title>
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    <author_name>Wolf T. Zoepf</author_name>
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                                      author: Wolf T. Zoepf<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-Ss]]></title>
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    <author_name>Johann Voss</author_name>
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                                      author: Johann Voss<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Waffen-SS at War: Hitler's Praetorians 1925-1945]]></title>
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    <book_id>214127</book_id>
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                                      author: Tim Ripley<br/>
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    <book_id>401824</book_id>
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    <author_name>Patrick J. Buchanan</author_name>
    <isbn>0312302592</isbn>
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    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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                                      author: Patrick J. Buchanan<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.02<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality." Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang, <b>DEAR READER</b> is a carefully reconstructed first-person account of the man behind the mythology. From his miraculous rainbow-filled birth during the fiery conflict of World War II, Kim Jong Il watched as his beloved Korea finally earned its freedom from the cursed Japanese. Mere years later, the wicked US imperialists took their chance at conquering the liberated nation—with devastating results. But that's only the beginning of the Dear Leader’s story. In <b>DEAR READER</b>, Kim Jong Il explains: How he can shrink time Why he despises the Mona Lisa How he recreated the arts in Korea Why the Juche idea is the greatest concept ever discovered by man How he handled the crippling famine Why Kim Jong Un was chosen as successor over his elder brothers. With nothing left uncovered, drawing straight from dozens of books, hundreds of articles and thousands of years of Korean history, <b>DEAR READER</b> is both the definitive account of Kim Jong Il's life and the complete stranger-than-fiction history of the world's most unique country.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>420</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Michael Malice</author_name>
    <isbn>1495283259</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>2</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Very well written, lot of talent and research went into crafting this work. Hats off to Malice, excellent book.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
    <book_published>2014</book_published>
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                                      author: Michael Malice<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.20<br/>
                                      book published: 2014<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics]]></title>
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    <book_id>34964949</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>The definitive firsthand account of the movement that permanently broke the American political consensus.</b><br /><b></b><br />What do internet trolls, economic populists, white nationalists, techno-anarchists and Alex Jones have in common? <i>Nothing</i>, except for an unremitting hatred of evangelical progressivism and the so-called "Cathedral" from whence it pours forth.<br /><br />Contrary to the dissembling explanations from the corporate press, this movement did not emerge overnight--nor are its varied subgroups in any sense interchangeable with one another. As united by their opposition as they are divided by their goals, the members of the New Right are willfully suspicious of those in the mainstream who would seek to tell their story. Fortunately, author Michael Malice was there from the very inception, and in <i>The New Right</i> recounts their tale from the beginning.<br /><br />Malice provides an authoritative and unbiased portrait of the New Right as a movement of ideas--ideas that he traces to surprisingly diverse ideological roots. From the heterodox right wing of the 1940s to the Buchanan/Rothbard alliance of 1992 and all the way through to what he witnessed personally in Charlottesville, <i>The New Right</i> is a thorough firsthand accounting of the concepts, characters and chronology of this widely misunderstood sociopolitical phenomenon.<br /><br />Today's fringe is tomorrow's orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, <i>The New Right</i> is required reading for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture.]]></book_description>
    <book id="34964949">
      <num_pages>307</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Michael Malice</author_name>
    <isbn>1250154669</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>2</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Michael is a phenomenal writer, and this book is very informative on the new right, going back to its roots. I've read the physical copy once and listened to the audio book version 3 times, narrated by the author. Tremendous, would recommend to anyone. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.23</average_rating>
    <book_published>2019</book_published>
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                                      author: Michael Malice<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.23<br/>
                                      book published: 2019<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
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                                      date added: 2026/01/30<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Michael is a phenomenal writer, and this book is very informative on the new right, going back to its roots. I've read the physical copy once and listened to the audio book version 3 times, narrated by the author. Tremendous, would recommend to anyone. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:58:39 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Ego and Hubris: The Michael Malice Story]]></title>
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    <book_id>16141</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[“Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met.”<br />–Harvey Pekar<br /><br />Who’s Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland?<br /><br />First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He’s 5’6” and weighs 130 pounds. Although on the cusp of thirty, he could easily pass for a scrawny teenager. <br /><br />One day Michael, a guy with a patchwork employment record and dreams as big as his ego, meets Harvey and begins to relay all these wild stories about his life. Simple as that. Harvey thinks the guy is bright but a bit of a riddle–though not the kind wrapped in an enigma. It’s strange. He seems like the type of person you meet every day, rather ordinary, until you really get to know him. Then you realize he’s exceptional, unusual, and contradictory. Pleasant one minute, really nasty the next. But isn’t cruelty part of human nature? We digress. . . .<br /><br />Harvey writes up and illustrates one of Michael Malice’s tales, “Fish Story,” which is part of American Splendor: Our Movie Year. It makes a splash and spawns this book, Harvey’s first hardcover, a graphic novel event about one guy’s life.<br /><br />Ego &amp; Hubris relates how, a year and a half after his birth in the Ukraine, Michael Malice moved with his parents to Brooklyn. He’s an intransigent kid, a hard-ass–both a demon to and demonized by the people who cross his path. His life is a constant struggle for validation in a world where the machine keeps trying to break him down. But Michael has a way with people . . . or rather, has a way of getting even with people. Hey, if you can’t live up to your parents’ expectations, at least you can live up to your name. <br /><br />Michael had never come close to fulfilling his huge dreams–until now. And just as Harvey’s been the everyman for a certain generation of graphic-novel readers, Michael Malice will be the everyman for a new generation.]]></book_description>
    <book id="16141">
      <num_pages>160</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Harvey Pekar</author_name>
    <isbn>0345479394</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>2</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Michael Malice is one of the most interesting people on the planet, this book is brilliant, very enjoyable.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.71</average_rating>
    <book_published>2006</book_published>
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                                      author: Harvey Pekar<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.71<br/>
                                      book published: 2006<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
                                      read at: 2018/09/03<br/>
                                      date added: 2026/01/30<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Michael Malice is one of the most interesting people on the planet, this book is brilliant, very enjoyable.<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos]]></title>
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    <book_id>30257963</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.</b><br /><br />Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.<br /><br />What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. <i>12 Rules for Life</i> shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.]]></book_description>
    <book id="30257963">
      <num_pages>409</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Jordan B. Peterson</author_name>
    <isbn>0345816021</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>2</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:58:33 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[This is a quality read, Peterson is an excellent author and a great mind. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.89</average_rating>
    <book_published>2018</book_published>
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                                      author: Jordan B. Peterson<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.89<br/>
                                      book published: 2018<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:58:01 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2453274116?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>36742998</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[It's hard being a person, especially in a family, and no one knows that better than stand-up comedian, family man, and <i>A Prairie Home Companion</i> head writer and performer, Tom Papa.<br /><br />How do you deal with a life filled with a whole host of characters and their bizarre, inescapable behavior? Especially when you're <i>related</i> to them? Tom Papa is here to help you make sense of it all. <i>Your Dad Stole My Rake </i>is a hilarious and warm book that saws deep into every branch of the family tree and uncovers the most bizarre and surprisingly meaningful aspects of our lives. He exposes everyone, from crazy aunts with mustaches, grandparents who communicate by yelling, and uncles who use marijuana as a condiment.<br /><br />Among the topics covered: <br /> - Tiger Mom v. Ice-Cream Mom<br /> - Stop Trying to be Cool<br /> - In Defense of Family Vacations<br /> - No Fighting Before Coffee<br /> - Least Popular Baby Names<br /> - Wife Lie Detector<br /> - Your Cat Thinks You're Too Needy<br /><br />Anyone who has a family, grew up in a family, or has spent time with another human being will love this book.]]></book_description>
    <book id="36742998">
      <num_pages>304</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Tom Papa</author_name>
    <isbn>1250144388</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>2</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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                                      author: Tom Papa<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.77<br/>
                                      book published: 2018<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
                                      read at: 2018/07/16<br/>
                                      date added: 2026/01/30<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:57:56 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2537449617?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>81201</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>272</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Jim Goad</author_name>
    <isbn>0684838648</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Goad is brutal, savage, and a lot of fun to read. Not to mention the facts he presents; highly recommend this book.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <book_published>1997</book_published>
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                                      author: Jim Goad<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.82<br/>
                                      book published: 1997<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2018/10/17<br/>
                                      date added: 2026/01/30<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Goad is brutal, savage, and a lot of fun to read. Not to mention the facts he presents; highly recommend this book.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:57:50 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story]]></title>
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    <book_id>15783194</book_id>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jordan Peterson offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, <em>Maps of</em> <em>Meaning</em> presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Jordan B. Peterson</author_name>
    <isbn>0415922224</isbn>
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                                      author: Jordan B. Peterson<br/>
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                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist]]></title>
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    <book_id>51652</book_id>
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                                      author: Alexander Berkman<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Unqualified Reservations, Vol. 01]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Volume 1 of 3 of the print version of Unqualified Reservations.<br /><br />Volume 1 includes:<br /><br />Formalist Manifesto – UR’s first-ever post and a brief summary of the the main themes found throughout the remainder of the work.<br />An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives – Over 250 pages detailing the history, meaning, and internal contradictions of the ideology of progressivism. The text that gave us “the Cathedral.”<br />How Dawkins Got Pwned – A critique of the politics of Universalism, its foundations in both English and American strains of Protestantism, and its present manifestations in modern liberal secularism. The first analysis of Wokeism as a religion, a decade before Wokeism was ever conceived.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Curtis Yarvin</author_name>
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                                      author: Curtis Yarvin<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.82<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Tailor-King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster]]></title>
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    <book_id>1161742</book_id>
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    <author_name>Anthony Arthur</author_name>
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                                      author: Anthony Arthur<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.28<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:37:06 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties]]></title>
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    <book_id>43015073</book_id>
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    <author_name>Tom O&apos;Neill</author_name>
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                                      author: Tom O'Neill<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.03<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:36:37 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)]]></title>
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    <book_id>11127</book_id>
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    <title><![CDATA[The True History of the American Revolution]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA["The purpose of this history of the Revolution is to use the original authorities rather more frankly than has been the practice with our historians. They appear to have thought it advisable to omit from their narratives a great deal which, to me, seems essential to a true picture. I cannot feel satisfied with any description of the Revolution which treats the desire for independence as a sudden thought, and not a long growth and development, or which assumes that every detail of the conduct of the British government was absurdly stupid, even from its own point of view, and that the loyalists were few in numbers and their arguments not worth considering. I cannot see any advantage in not describing in their full meaning and force the smuggling, the buying of laws from the governors, and other irregular conduct in the colonies which led England to try to remodel them as soon as the fear of the French in Canada was removed..." - S.G. Fisher<br /><br />Contents: Early Conditions And Causes. Smuggling, Rioting, and Revolt against Control. Parliament Passes a Stamp Tax and Repeals It. Parliament Taxes Paint, Paper, and Glass and then Abandons Taxation. The Tea Episode. The Final Argument. The Rights of Man. A Reign of Terror for the Loyalists. The Real Intention as to Independence. The Continental Congress. The Situation in England. Triumphant Toryism. Lexington and the Number of the Loyalists. The Second Continental Congress and the Protests of the Loyalists. Bunker Hill. The Character and Condition of the Patriot Army. The Attack upon Canada. The Evacuation of Boston and the Declaration of Independence. The Battle of Long Island. The Battles of Trenton and Princeton. The Battle of Brandywine. The Battle of Saratoga and Its Results. Clinton Begins the Wearing-out Process. Arnold, the Loyalist, Tries to Save the British Empire. Cornwallis Brings the War to an End at Yorktown.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Sydney George Fisher</author_name>
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                                      author: Sydney George Fisher<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Drive to the East (Settling Accounts, #2)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Harry Turtledove–the master of alternate history–has recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world.<br /><br />In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, The Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Now it’s 1942. The USA and CSA are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure up–for their enemies and themselves.<br /><br />In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia–killing U.S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose. <br /><br />As the untested U.S. vice president takes over for Smith, the United States face a furious thrust by the Confederate army, pressing inexorably into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt, and U.S. naval ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked.<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Harry Turtledove</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online - perhaps you've seen them? They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They sometimes even appear on lamp posts and on cafe and bookshop windows. Perhaps you saw the boy and mole on the Comic Relief T-shirt, Love Wins?<br /><br />Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Charlie Mackesy</author_name>
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                                      author: Charlie Mackesy<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.55<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580]]></title>
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    <book_id>3418555</book_id>
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      <num_pages>341</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Roger Crowley</author_name>
    <isbn>0571232302</isbn>
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                                      author: Roger Crowley<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.28<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>319473</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany.</b><br /><br />In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it and all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin?<br /><br />There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand, and Richard Evans has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans's history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. With many people angry and embittered by military defeat and economic ruin; a state undermined by a civil service, an army, and a law enforcement system deeply alienated from the democratic order introduced in 1918; beset by the growing extremism of voters prey to panic about the increasing popularity of communism; home to a tiny but quite successful Jewish community subject to widespread suspicion and resentment, Germany proved to be fertile ground for Nazism's ideology of hatred.<br /><br />The first book of what will ultimately be a complete three-volume history of Nazi Germany, The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian's art and the book by which all others on this subject will be judged.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>622</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Richard J. Evans</author_name>
    <isbn>0143034693</isbn>
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    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Richard J. Evans<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.30<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:52:46 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Times bestselling author Charles Spencer tells the real story behind the legend to show how one cataclysmic shipwreck changed England’s course.<br /><br />In 1120, the White Ship was known as the fastest ship afloat. When it sank sailing from Normandy to England it was carrying aboard the only legitimate heir to King Henry I, William Ætheling. The raucous, arrogant young prince had made a party of the voyage, carousing with his companions and pushing wine into the eager hands of the crew. It was the middle of the night when the drunken helmsman rammed the ship into rocks.<br /><br />The next day only one of the three hundred who had boarded the ship was alive to describe the horrors of the slow shipwreck. William, the face of England’s future had drowned along with scores of the social elite. The royal line severed and with no obvious heir to the crown, a civil war of untold violence erupted. Known fittingly as ‘The Anarchy’, this game of thrones saw families turned in on each other, with English barons, rebellious Welsh leaders and Scottish invaders all playing a part in the bloody, desperate scrum for power.<br /><br />One incredible shipwreck and two decades of violent uncertainty; England’s course had changed forever.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Charles     Spencer</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In the beginning, there was only Victor von Leers. In the end, there was ZARTAX-cyborg, living weapon, ultimate Executioner. After Warday, when millions of human lives ceased at once in a flash of nuclear hellfire, the lives of sadistic junkie Billy Wong, Surgeon-Minister Woldemar Mohamet al-Husseini, and Leers would be bound together by some unseen hand moving them toward God's ultimate purpose.<br /><br />The debut novella of one of our foremost dissident thinkers, Steelstorm opens up terrifying vistas of Homeric violence and Venusian sky-city arcologies.<br /><br />With an essay outlining the philosophical implications of fiction as well as his own reasons for writing the book, Thomas777 has given us a major creative statement and a new mythos.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Thomas777</author_name>
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                                      author: Thomas777<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.73<br/>
                                      book published: 2021<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom]]></title>
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    <book_id>1270379</book_id>
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    <author_name>James Burnham</author_name>
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    <book_published>1943</book_published>
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                                      author: James Burnham<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.25<br/>
                                      book published: 1943<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title>Child of God</title>
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    <book_id>293625</book_id>
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    <author_name>Cormac McCarthy</author_name>
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                                      author: Cormac McCarthy<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.81<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I]]></title>
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    <author_name>Charles     Spencer</author_name>
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                                      author: Charles     Spencer<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.78<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title>Between Two Fires</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.<br /><br />Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.<br /><br />As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Christopher Buehlman</author_name>
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                                      author: Christopher Buehlman<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.15<br/>
                                      book published: 2012<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Jan 2025 06:48:40 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Leopard</title>
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    <book_id>625094</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing <i>The Leopard,</i> his only novel. Visconti's film adaptation, starring Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1963.<br /><br />In Sicily, in 1860, a family from the high aristocracy suffered the consequences of the change of regime in favor of the Republicans. While Prince Salina lets himself be overcome by nostalgia, his nephew Tancred embodies the new force that is shaking his country. He asks for the hand of Angélique, daughter of an upstart, while this union marks the defeat of the family coat of arms.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa</author_name>
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                                      average rating: 4.00<br/>
                                      book published: 1958<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <book_id>124018705</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[HISTORY IS FAKE // YOU NEED TO BE READING MORE HISTORY<br /><br />The past is a foreign country, and our perception of it is dominated by an academic institution that has long abandoned true scholarship. In the mainstream, ideology is more important than truth; inconvenient truths are thrown into obscurity to fit the past into a neat, postmodern box. Dissent from this narrative is not allowed by historical journals or publishers.<br /><br />The Dissident Review changes that. Publishing purely based on merit, Volume I collects the best historical writing and research you've never heard of. From the Dark Ages to occult history, premodern Ireland to 1980s Afghanistan, this edition collects seven groundbreaking essays and one never-before-seen translation, all aimed at providing a new vision of the past - a vision of vitality, inspiration, pride, and greatness.<br /><br />The Dissident Review is proud to present Volume A Reclamation &amp; Revitalization of the Past .]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Into the Void (Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[On the planet Tython, the ancient Je’daii order was founded. And at the feet of its wise Masters, Lanoree Brock learned the mysteries and methods of the Force—and found her calling as one of its most powerful disciples. But as strongly as the Force flowed within Lanoree and her parents, it remained absent in her brother, who grew to despise and shun the Je’daii, and whose training in its ancient ways ended in tragedy.<br /> <br />Now, from her solitary life as a Ranger keeping order across the galaxy, Lanoree has been summoned by the Je’daii Council on a matter of utmost urgency. The leader of a fanatical cult, obsessed with traveling beyond the reaches of known space, is bent on opening a cosmic gateway using dreaded dark matter as the key—risking a cataclysmic reaction that will consume the entire star system. But more shocking to Lanoree than even the prospect of total galactic annihilation, is the decision of her Je’daii Masters to task her with the mission of preventing it. Until a staggering revelation makes clear why she was chosen: The brilliant, dangerous madman she must track down and stop at any cost is the brother whose death she has long grieved—and whose life she must now fear.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Tim Lebbon</author_name>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence]]></title>
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    <title>The Great Siege: Malta 1565</title>
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    <author_name>Ernle Bradford</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Enemy At the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<strong>An outstanding array—</strong><strong>52 pieces in all—</strong><strong>of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world, and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James</strong><br /><br />Spanning Gaiman’s career to date, <em>The</em><em> Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction</em> is a captivating collection from one of the world’s most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers. <br /><br />A brilliant representation of Gaiman's groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginative fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults —<em>Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys</em>, and <em>The Ocean at the End of the Lane</em>—and nearly fifty of his short stories. <br /><br />Impressive in its depth and range, <em>The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction</em> is both an entryway to Gaiman’s oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to many times over.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet The Confederacy and the Transvaal]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[*Leviathan and Its Enemies* is Samuel T. Francis's magnum opus on political theory and the history of the modern world, which had been lost to the world after his untimely death in 2005 and is published here for the first time. This edition includes new introductory and critical essays by Jerry Woodruff, Fran Griffin, and Paul E. Gottfried. In his Introduction, Jerry Woodruff writes, "Following [James] Burnham, Sam believed a new ruling elite emerged in 20th-century. . . . the growth of giant corporations, the expansion of government power and bureaucracy, and the widespread emergence of mass organizations gave birth to a powerful class of skilled professionals to guide and manage the vast operations of the means of economic production, which, on a smaller scale, were once in the hands of private entrepreneurs and their families. As a result, the old ruling bourgeois elite, along with its political and social institutions and its view of society and politics, were replaced by a new "managerial elite," with a world outlook that set out to remake society according to its own interests, and which was hostile to any bourgeois remnants in conflict with that project."]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors]]></title>
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                                      author: Dan Jones<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.24<br/>
                                      book published: 2014<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction]]></title>
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                                      author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<br/>
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    <title>Timequake</title>
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    <author_name>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author_name>
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                                      author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.80<br/>
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    <author_name>Delicious Tacos</author_name>
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                                      average rating: 3.63<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland]]></title>
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                                      author: Patrick Radden Keefe<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 May 2023 04:47:45 -0700]]></pubDate>
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    <author_name>Murray N. Rothbard</author_name>
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    <book_id>40388177</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of Bin Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>712</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Steve Coll</author_name>
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    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Steve Coll<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith, and Military]]></title>
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    <book_id>834175</book_id>
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    <book id="834175">
      <num_pages>272</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Michael Savage</author_name>
    <isbn>0785261028</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: Michael Savage<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
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    <title>Notebooks 1951-1959</title>
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    <book_id>2509092</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death, and now in English for the first time, Camus's final journals give us our rawest and most intimate glimpse yet into one of the most important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. The first two volumes of his Notebooks began as simple instruments of his work; this final volume, recorded over the last nine years of his life, take on the characteristics of a more personal diary. Fearing that his memory was beginning to fail him, Camus noted here his reactions to the polemics stirred by The Rebel , his feelings about the Algerian War, his sojourns in Greece and Italy, thinly veiled observations on his wife and lovers, heartaches over his family, and anxiety over the Nobel Prize that he was awarded in 1957.<br /><br />As in the earlier Notebooks , we see here also the birth of some of Camus's greatest The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom , and his unfinished masterpiece, The First Man . His gorgeous travel descriptions, his political observations, and his philosophical musings are the most appealing features of these recorded thoughts. Notebooks 1951-1959 completes one of the most important set of literary "working papers" of the past century. Ryan Bloom's sensitive translation was shortlisted for the French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation translation prize for nonfiction.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>284</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Albert Camus</author_name>
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    <book_published>1989</book_published>
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                                      author: Albert Camus<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.30<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:26:25 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Gulag: A History</title>
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    <book_id>224379</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.</b> <br /><br />The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic oral history of the Soviet camps, <i>The Gulag Archipelago</i>. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, dozens of memoirs and new studies covering aspects of that system have been published in Russia and the West. Using these new resources as well as her own original historical research, Anne Applebaum has now undertaken, for the first time, a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. It is an epic feat of investigation and moral reckoning that places the Gulag where it belongs: at the center of our understanding of the troubled history of the twentieth century. <br /><br />Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance. The Gulag was first put in place in 1918 after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, Stalin personally decided to expand the camp system, both to use forced labor to accelerate Soviet industrialization and to exploit the natural resources of the country's barely habitable far northern regions. By the end of the 1930s, labor camps could be found in all twelve of the Soviet Union's time zones. The system continued to expand throughout the war years, reaching its height only in the early 1950s. From 1929 until the death of Stalin in 1953, some 18 million people passed through this massive system. Of these 18 million, it is estimated that 4.5 million never returned. <br /><br />But the Gulag was not just an economic institution. It also became, over time, a country within a country, almost a separate civilization, with its own laws, customs, literature, folklore, slang, and morality. Topic by topic, Anne Applebaum also examines how life was lived within this shadow country: how prisoners worked, how they ate, where they lived, how they died, how they survived. She examines their guards and their jailers, the horrors of transportation in empty cattle cars, the strange nature of Soviet arrests and trials, the impact of World War II, the relations between different national and religious groups, and the escapes, as well as the extraordinary rebellions that took place in the 1950s. She concludes by examining the disturbing question why the Gulag has remained relatively obscure, in the historical memory of both the former Soviet Union and the West. <br /><br /><i>Gulag: A History</i> will immediately be recognized as a landmark work of historical scholarship and an indelible contribution to the complex, ongoing, necessary quest for truth.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Anne Applebaum</author_name>
    <isbn>0767900561</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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                                      average rating: 4.28<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:12:48 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>A Farewell to Arms</title>
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    <book_id>10799</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<i>A Farewell to Arms</i> is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to <i>A Farewell to Arms</i> thirty-nine times to get the words right.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Ernest Hemingway</author_name>
    <isbn>0099910101</isbn>
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    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[good story, especially if you are interested in the First World War, and the Italian front. It is very sad at the end. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <book_published>1929</book_published>
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                                      author: Ernest Hemingway<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.83<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder]]></title>
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    <book_id>34185413</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Though they were men of very different backgrounds and experiences, Herman reveals how Wilson and Lenin were very much alike. Both rose to supreme power, one through a democratic election; the other through violent revolution. Both transformed their countries by the policies they implemented, and the crucial decisions they made. Woodrow Wilson, a champion of democracy, capitalism, and the international order, steered America's involvement in World War I. Lenin, a communist revolutionary and advocate for the proletariat, lead the Bolsheviks' overthrow of Russia's earlier democratic revolution that toppled the Czar, and the establishment of a totalitarian Soviet Union.Men of opposing ideals and actions, each was idolized by millions-and vilified and feared by millions more. Though they would never meet, these two world leaders came to see in the other the evils of the world each sought to eradicate. In so doing, both would unleash the forces that still dominate our world, and that continue to shape its future from nationalism and Communism to today's maps of the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe. In this incisive, fast-paced history, Herman brilliantly explores the birth of a potent rivalry between two men who rewrote the rules of geopolitics-and the moment, one hundred years ago, when our contemporary world began.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Arthur Herman</author_name>
    <isbn>0062570889</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <user_review>Essential, must read.</user_review>
    <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
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                                      author: Arthur Herman<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.03<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:34:37 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>A Gentleman in Moscow</title>
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    <book_id>34066798</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility, a novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel—a beautifully transporting novel.<br /><br />In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances give him access to a much larger world of emotional discovery.<br /><br />Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Amor Towles</author_name>
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    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[The book is well written, very entertaining. Towles has a great ability to paint pictures &amp; scenes, describing many items, the likes of the various dishes and wines, music, clients of the hotel, but also the passing events of history in the USSR, mostly in Stalin's reign. Immaculate detail is given, from cutlery to clothing, really enjoyed the journey.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.27</average_rating>
    <book_published>2016</book_published>
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                                      author: Amor Towles<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.27<br/>
                                      book published: 2016<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>The book is well written, very entertaining. Towles has a great ability to paint pictures &amp; scenes, describing many items, the likes of the various dishes and wines, music, clients of the hotel, but also the passing events of history in the USSR, mostly in Stalin's reign. Immaculate detail is given, from cutlery to clothing, really enjoyed the journey.<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Overheard in New York UPDATED: Conversations from the Streets, Stores, and Subways]]></title>
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    <author_name>S. Morgan Friedman</author_name>
    <isbn>1101203447</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <book_published>2006</book_published>
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                                      author: S. Morgan Friedman<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.07<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil]]></title>
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    <book_id>68005389</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The Russian Revolution was as red as blood. The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison that the world had ever seen, a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe. It was a country where people's lives meant nothing, less than nothing—and they knew it. But no matter what atrocity that the Soviets committed—the secret police, the torture chambers, the show trials, the labor camps and the mass starvation—there was always someone in the West rushing to justify their bloodshed. For decades it seemed perfectly obvious that the USSR wasn’t going anywhere—until it vanished from the face of the earth, gradually and then suddenly. This is the story of the rise and fall of that evil empire, and why it is so important for the good to never give up hope. This is the white pill.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Michael Malice</author_name>
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                                      author: Michael Malice<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.40<br/>
                                      book published: 2022<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization]]></title>
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    <book_id>1948985</book_id>
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    <author_name>Nicholson Baker</author_name>
    <isbn>1416567844</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Nicholson Baker<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.06<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Jan 2023 07:05:27 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Gray Mirror of the Nihilist Prince]]></title>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:03:22 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin]]></title>
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    <book_id>6572270</book_id>
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    <author_name>Timothy Snyder</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage]]></title>
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    <book_id>4988</book_id>
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    <author_name>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author_name>
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                                      author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<br/>
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    <title>A Man Without a Country</title>
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    <book_id>4979</book_id>
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                                      author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.11<br/>
                                      book published: 2005<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/12/02<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/12/02<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 02 Dec 2022 07:45:27 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Armageddon in Retrospect</title>
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    <book_id>2024223</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.]]></book_description>
    <book id="2024223">
      <num_pages>234</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author_name>
    <isbn>0399155082</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Really short audiobook, very enjoyable, as expected. A lot of the collections and speeches of Kurt seem to be recycled or amended speeches and so on. Doesn't matter, they are all unique and hit home.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
    <book_published>2008</book_published>
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                                      author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.95<br/>
                                      book published: 2008<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/12/02<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/12/02<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Really short audiobook, very enjoyable, as expected. A lot of the collections and speeches of Kurt seem to be recycled or amended speeches and so on. Doesn't matter, they are all unique and hit home.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:35:57 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5076717975?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>60353774</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work that inspired the HBO Original series <i>House of the Dragon</i>.</b><br /><br />Centuries before the events of <i>A Game of Thrones, </i> House Targaryen — the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria — took up residence on Dragonstone. <i>Fire &amp; Blood</i> begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.<br /><br />What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel's worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as <i>The World of Ice &amp; Fire</i>, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.<br /><br />With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon's <i>The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</i>, <i>Fire &amp; Blood</i> is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.]]></book_description>
    <book id="60353774">
      <num_pages>786</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>George R.R. Martin</author_name>
    <isbn>0593598016</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Wed, 9 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Fun, gives a very broad history of the lore. We shall see how close the HOTD lines up going forward. Martin is a great writer, and this is a good read.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
    <book_published>2018</book_published>
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                                      author: George R.R. Martin<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.10<br/>
                                      book published: 2018<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/11/09<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/11/09<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Fun, gives a very broad history of the lore. We shall see how close the HOTD lines up going forward. Martin is a great writer, and this is a good read.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:10:42 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5076719850?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>394535</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps.<br /><br />Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a vision of the historical West.]]></book_description>
    <book id="394535">
      <num_pages>351</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Cormac McCarthy</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:10:42 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[This is a brutal, graphic &amp; amazing novel. McCarthy at his best, dark, nihilistic, absurd &amp; tragic.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
    <book_published>1985</book_published>
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                                      author: Cormac McCarthy<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.16<br/>
                                      book published: 1985<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
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                                      date added: 2022/10/31<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>This is a brutal, graphic &amp; amazing novel. McCarthy at his best, dark, nihilistic, absurd &amp; tragic.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:04:41 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5076711686?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>10176</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives — a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.<br />--davidsedarisbooks.com]]></book_description>
    <book id="10176">
      <num_pages>257</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>David Sedaris</author_name>
    <isbn>0965904830</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:04:41 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:02:25 -0700]]></user_date_created>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[David is extremely talented, painting a very rich picture of his early life, the situations he and his family find themselves in, from the 8 year old neighbor that turned into his personal terrorist, to his father being a landlord, and his brother getting married, lots of laughs. I still use the line his brother Paul said in the story "this coffee is like making love in a canoe.."<br />Worth the read for sure.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.13</average_rating>
    <book_published>2004</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: David Sedaris<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.13<br/>
                                      book published: 2004<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2022/10/31<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>David is extremely talented, painting a very rich picture of his early life, the situations he and his family find themselves in, from the 8 year old neighbor that turned into his personal terrorist, to his father being a landlord, and his brother getting married, lots of laughs. I still use the line his brother Paul said in the story "this coffee is like making love in a canoe.."<br />Worth the read for sure.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:02:04 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5076709920?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>18635622</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consciousness. Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne, there was Dunk and Egg. A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Though more improbable heroes may not be found in all of Westeros, great destinies lay ahead for these two . . . as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.]]></book_description>
    <book id="18635622">
      <num_pages>355</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>George R.R. Martin</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:02:04 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:00:46 -0700]]></user_date_created>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Lots of fun, a departure from the HBO TV series, and a good one.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
    <book_published>2013</book_published>
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                                      author: George R.R. Martin<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.28<br/>
                                      book published: 2013<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Lots of fun, a departure from the HBO TV series, and a good one.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:00:20 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Power Elite</title>
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    <book_id>222863</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today.<br /><br />What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills' book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation.]]></book_description>
    <book id="222863">
      <num_pages>448</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>C. Wright Mills</author_name>
    <isbn>0195133544</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:00:20 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <average_rating>4.15</average_rating>
    <book_published>1956</book_published>
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                                      author: C. Wright Mills<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.15<br/>
                                      book published: 1956<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/10/31<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/10/31<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Jun 2022 18:05:41 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Classics)]]></title>
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    <book_id>582102</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here are famous verses by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen; poetry by women writing from the home front; and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers' songs. Arranged thematically, the selections take the reader through the war's stages, from conscription to its aftermath, and offer a blend of voices that is both unique and profoundly moving.]]></book_description>
    <book id="582102">
      <num_pages>383</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Matthew George Walter</author_name>
    <isbn>0141181907</isbn>
    <user_name>J.</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Jun 2022 18:05:41 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:35:32 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves>to-read</user_shelves>
    <user_review></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <book_published>1979</book_published>
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                                      author: Matthew George Walter<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
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    <title>For Whom the Bell Tolls</title>
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    <book_id>46170</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," <i>For Whom the Bell Tolls.</i> The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in <i>The Sun Also Rises</i> and <i>A Farewell to Arms</i> to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gothikana (The Verenmore Volumes)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>The eternal romance of Beauty and the Beast meets the gothic suspense of Dracula in this erotic dark academia story of epic love from bestselling author RuNyx.</b><br /><br /><b>An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong?</b><br /><br />An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death.<br /><br />An enigma his entire life, Vad Deverell likes being a closed book but knowing exactly everything that happens in the university. A part-time professor working on his thesis, Vad has been around long enough to know the dangers the castle possesses. And he knows the moment his path crosses with Corvina, she's dangerous to everything that he is.<br /><br />They shouldn't have caught each other's eye. They cannot be. But a chill-inducing century-old mystery forces them to collide. People have disappeared every five years over the past century, Corvina is getting clues to unraveling it all, and Vad needs to keep an eye on her.<br /><br />And so begins a tale of the mysterious, the morbid, the macabre, and a deep love that blossoms in the unlikeliest of places.]]></book_description>
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                                      author: RuNyx<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.73<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Oct 2021 05:09:37 -0700]]></pubDate>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<i>Jesus' Son</i>, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange world brought uncomfortably close to our own, the stories in <i>Jesus' Son</i> offer a disturbing yet eerily beautiful portrayal of American loneliness and hope.<br /><br />Contains:<br />Car Crash While Hitchhiking<br />Two Men<br />Out on Bail<br />Dundun<br />Work<br />Emergency<br />Dirty Wedding<br />The Other Man<br />Happy Hour<br />Steady Hands at Seattle General<br />Beverly Home']]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Denis Johnson</author_name>
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    <average_rating>4.15</average_rating>
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                                      author: Denis Johnson<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.15<br/>
                                      book published: 1992<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:42:34 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine]]></title>
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    <book_id>33864676</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>Gulag</i> and <i>Iron Curtain</i>.</b><br /><br />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 authority and detail, <i>Red Famine </i>investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.<br /><br />The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering.<br /><br />The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine's cultural and political leadership - and then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country's true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. <i>Red Famine</i>, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Anne Applebaum</author_name>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[This is not an easy read at all. The images you will get from the truth: the communist party deliberately starving millions of people to death in Ukraine brought me to tears several times, both those of sadness and anger. One part of the book sticks out strongly where those who collect the dead came to a home, found the occupants starving and near death, moved them closer to the front door so they didn't have far to go when they came back for them is something I will never, ever forget reading. This is an essential work for those who want the truth about the genocide that took place in Ukraine, the Holodomor. ]]></user_review>
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                                      author: Anne Applebaum<br/>
                                      name: J.<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>This is not an easy read at all. The images you will get from the truth: the communist party deliberately starving millions of people to death in Ukraine brought me to tears several times, both those of sadness and anger. One part of the book sticks out strongly where those who collect the dead came to a home, found the occupants starving and near death, moved them closer to the front door so they didn't have far to go when they came back for them is something I will never, ever forget reading. This is an essential work for those who want the truth about the genocide that took place in Ukraine, the Holodomor. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:38:57 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Journalist Victor Sebestyen witnessed much of the 1989 fall of the Soviet empire at first hand, and in this book, he reassesses this decisive moment in modern history.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Victor Sebestyen</author_name>
    <isbn>029785223X</isbn>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Very detailed account of how the house of cards came crashing down. For those of us who watched the events transpire on TV, this will flood you of those memories that were forever engraved in my mind. Highly recommend. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.35</average_rating>
    <book_published>2009</book_published>
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                                      author: Victor Sebestyen<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Very detailed account of how the house of cards came crashing down. For those of us who watched the events transpire on TV, this will flood you of those memories that were forever engraved in my mind. Highly recommend. <br/>
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