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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)
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Author Simon Weisenthal recalls his demoralizing life in a concentration camp and his envy of the dead Germans who have sunflowers marking their graves. At the time he assumed his grave would be a mass one, unmarked and forgotten. Then, one day, a dying Nazi soldier asks Weisenthal for forgiveness for his crimes against the Jews. What would you do? Thi... »
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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
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After reading a highly favorable review in the New York Times, I rushed down to the bookstore where a friend works to see if they had this book, and was shocked to find that they did not have it and that no one had been asking about it.
It's such an amazing story--a young boy escapes death in just the first of an unusual set of circumstanc... »
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
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"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will mean unless we know something about its effects in the past: "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." And Fagan's story of the last ... »
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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The ... »
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The Children of Henry VIII
The royal family may have its problems these days, but as Alison Weir reminds us in this cohesive and impeccably researched book, the nobility of old Engl... »
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