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Deborah Feldman: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2020

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

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Dick & Angel Strawbridge: The Chateau - Forever Home

SEVEN DIALS, 2023

Take a journey to Château-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge.

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Price: 12 250 Ft

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Dick Strawbridge, Anne Strawbridge: A Year at the Chateau

SEVEN DIALS, 2021

Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale château.

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Duncan Hamilton: For the Glory

BLACK SWAN, 2017

Faster. Higher. Stronger. No one has embodied the ideals of the Olympic movement quite like Eric Liddell, star of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.

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Edith Eger: The Ballerina of Auschwitz:

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2024

In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith was sent to Auschwitz and endured unimaginable experiences. When the camp was finally liberated, she was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive.

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Price: 4 725 Ft

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Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free

GRANTA, 2011

The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition. The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written.

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Price: 5 550 Ft

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Erich Kästner: Das Blaue Buch

ATRIUM-VERLAG, 2018

Nachdem Erich Kästner 1933 von den Nazis als Autor verboten worden war, entschloss er sich, ein geheimes Tagebuch zu führen.

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Ernő Rubik: Cubed - The Puzzle of Us All

WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 2021

As a child, Erno Rubik became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. To him, they weren't just games - they were challenges that captured his imagination, creativity and perseverance.

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Price: 5 550 Ft

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Geoffrey C. Ward: The Roosevelts

KNOPF, ALFRED A, 2014

Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts.

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George Szirtes: The Photographer at Sixteen

MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2020

When you run the film backwards the figure in the pool emerges and lands neatly back on the diving board while the water beneath her heals. So, if we run life backwards, we move from its the end to its very beginning.

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