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  • Our Philosopher

    by Gert Hofmann ...
    Translated by Eric Mace-Tessler ...
    A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocative work interrogates shows how a group of people can slip towards extremism and barbarity in the blink of an eye.The time is the 1930s. Our philosopher is Herr Veilchenfeld, a renowned thinker and distinguished professor, who, after his sudden dismissal from the university, has retired to live quietly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Ancient Black Hebrews and Arabs, The

    by Gert Muller, Anu M'Bantu ...
    Narrated by Marie Hoffman ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Black Hebrews

    Unabridged

    1 hour 38 min

    The evidence from the Bible describes the ancient Hebrews as being Afro-haired and Black. Abraham, Jacob, David, and Solomon were Black. Pictures of the ancient Hebrews show this part of Biblical record to be accurate! Most people do not know that the original Arabs of ancient times were Black. This audiobook quotes ancient authorities and the ancient Arabs themselves to show that they were ... Read more

    $4.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Gushing Fountain

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    by Martin Walser ...
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    Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle.In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann ... Read more

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  • Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 2

    by Miya Kazuki ...
    Translated by quof ...
    Series Book 2 - Ascendance of a Bookworm
    It has been a year since our hero was reborn into a new world in the body of Myne, a sickly little girl from a poor family. She's been doing her best to fulfill her dream of making books, but her plans have been foiled at every turn.But now Myne has a deal with Benno the merchant: With her friend Lutz's help, she will make a paper prototype that he can sell in his shop. In exchange, he will take ... Read more

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  • Children and Fire

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    by Ursula Hegi ...
    The fourth novel in Ursula Hegi’s acclaimed Burgdorf cycle is “a thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany’s history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil” (Kirkus Reviews).Children and Fire tells the story of one day that will forever transform the lives of the people in Burgdorf, Germany, the fictitious village by the river in Ursula ... Read more

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    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical ... Read more

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  • Kairos

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
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  • Marzahn, Mon Amour

    by Katja Oskamp ...
    Translated by Jo Heinrich ...
    A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the East Berlin suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate. From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and curiosity. Part memoir, part collective ... Read more

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    by Erich Kästner ...
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    by Alexander McCall Smith ...
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    Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due—a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.In Unusual Uses for Olive Oil, von Igelfeld experiences a series of new adventures. First, he finds that his academic rival ... Read more

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  • Gilgi

    by Irmgard Keun ...
    Translated by Geoff Wilkes ...
    Series series Neversink
    The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secretary making her way through a Germany succumbing to the Nazis.Irmgard Keun's first novel Gilgi was an overnight sensation upon its initial publication in Germany, selling thousands of copies, inspiring numerous imitators, and making Keun a household name—a reputation that was only heightened when, a ... Read more

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