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The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir»rank: 11648par: John Grogan
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The Revolution: A Manifesto»rank: 1027par: Ron Paul
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A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive»rank: 1330par: Dave Pelzer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as 'an lt.' This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a ... |
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Night»rank: 774par: Elie Wiesel
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as 'an lt.' This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a ... |
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Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie»rank: 1417de: McClelland & Stewart
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as 'an lt.' This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a ... |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance»rank: 10806par: Barack Obama
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as 'an lt.' This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a ... |
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House»rank: 166par: Jon Meacham
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as 'an lt.' This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a ... |
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Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda»rank: 12863par: Romeo Dallaire
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:lt was one of the fastest, most efficient, most evident genocides of modern history. And it could have been avoided. But the United States and France were content to sit back and watch as Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Rwandans in ethnic pogroms in 1994. Roméo Dallaire, then a brigadier general in the Canadian Forces, was the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda and witnessed first-hand the 'unfolding apocalypse,' as he calls it in his stunning book Shake Hands with the Devil. The gruesome experience and ... |
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World»rank: 757par: A. J. Jacobs
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:lt was one of the fastest, most efficient, most evident genocides of modern history. And it could have been avoided. But the United States and France were content to sit back and watch as Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Rwandans in ethnic pogroms in 1994. Roméo Dallaire, then a brigadier general in the Canadian Forces, was the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda and witnessed first-hand the 'unfolding apocalypse,' as he calls it in his stunning book Shake Hands with the Devil. The gruesome experience and ... |
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48 Laws Of Power»rank: 3362par: Robert Greene
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective,' writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book 'have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power ... while others decrease it and even ruin us.' The laws cull their principles from many great schemers--and scheming instructors--throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand, from Casanova to con man Yellow ... |