100 Best Copenhagen Books of All Time

We've ranked the best copenhagen books using expert recommendations, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. At Shortform, we know books. Our book guides are the best in the world. Learn why.

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos book cover1

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

5.0
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.

Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awa
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1984

George Orwell

4.9
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition.

“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania
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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

4.8
Now reissued in a gorgeous hardcover edition: "one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world." Huxley's masterpiece has become a bestseller once again after the American election.

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature,
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

Garrett M. Graff

4.8
The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma.

Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual re
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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

4.8
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal
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The Little Prince Family Storybook: Unabridged Original Text

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4.7
Rediscover Antoine de Saint-Exupery's universal masterpiece with original text and magnificent new illustrations created by masters of film animation. This wise and enchanginting fable teaches the secret of what is really important in life.
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch book cover7

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

4.6
‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.’

People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?

You could spend t
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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

Margaret Atwood

4.6
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fift
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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

4.6
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material
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Copenhagen

Michael Frayn

4.5
For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn shows us that these men were passionate, philosophical, and all too
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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier, Anna Massey, et al

4.5
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over thei
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Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges, John Sturrock

4.5
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form—in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES explode the boundaries of genre, offering up labyrinthine libraries, a fictional encyclopedia entry t
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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

Jussi Adler-Olsen

4.5
Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of Copenhagen’s coldest cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, be
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Rick Steves Scandinavia

Rick Steves

4.5
Explore Europe's most prosperous corner: a smorgasbord of Viking ships, brooding castles, and emerald fjords. With Rick Steves on your side, Scandinavia can be yours!

Inside Rick Steves Scandinavia you'll find:

Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia

Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with ranki
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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman

4.4
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition

Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in
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Rick Steves Snapshot Copenhagen & the Best of Denmark

Rick Steves

4.4
You can count on Rick Steves for what you really need to know when traveling in Copenhagen.
In this slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Scandinavia, you'll get Rick's firsthand, up-to-date advice on the best sights, restaurants, and hotels in Copenhagen and beyond. With Rick's advice, you'll bike the canals, feast on Danish kringles, and tour opulent palaces and castles.
Rick covers all the must-
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

4.4
Three remarkable women--grandmother, mother, and daughter--struggle to survive in a true-life saga that spans 20th-century China with all its violence: wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval. A thrilling adventure story, Wild Swans is an important work of history, and a breathtaking testimony to the human spirit. 16 pages of photographs.
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Before We Were Yours

Lisa Wingate

4.4
For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal."*

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy ni
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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

4.4
You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

New to the fourth Edition are twelve
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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

4.4
Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity.

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palp
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The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

4.3
The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, “a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time” (Chicago Tribune).

A MOST UNTRADITIONAL LOVE STORY, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate
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Smilla's Sense of Snow

Peter Høeg

4.3
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...

It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body i
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Copenhagen: Lost in City Guide

LOST iN the City

4.3
Getting lost in the city is not about throwing away the map. It's about surrendering yourself to the essence of the place. The sights, smells, flavors and sounds that make it unique. The photography, the art, the creativity that provide its individual inspiration. Getting lost is diving headfirst into what makes each city its own.
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Blue Mistaken for Sky

Andrea Hollander

4.3
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)

Dan Brown

4.3
An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.

An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.


While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbol
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Rick Steves Scandinavian & Northern European Cruise Ports

Rick Steves and Cameron Hewitt

4.3
Set sail and dive into Europe's magnificent port cities with Rick Steves Scandinavian & Northern European Cruise Ports! Inside you'll find:

Rick's expert advice on making the most of your time on a cruise and fully experiencing each city, with thorough coverage of 18 ports of call


Practical travel strategies including how to choose and book your cruise, adjusting to life on board on the ship, saving
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 book cover27

How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

Joanna Faber and Julie King

4.3
Over 200,000 copies in print!
A must-have guide for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”

For nearly forty years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for its re
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The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCulloug

4.3
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0380018179 (ISBN13: 9780380018178)
The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when
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Sharpe's Prey (Sharpe, #5)

Bernard Cornwell

4.3
"The greatest writer of historical adventures today."
—Washington Post

Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" (Agincourt, The Fort), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement o
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درخت زیبای من

Jose Mauro De Vasconcelos

4.3
ژوزه مائورو ده واسکونسلوس نویسنده‌ی برزیلی، در ۲۶ فوریه‌ی ۱۹۲۰، در بانگو از توابع ریو دو ژانیرو متولد شد. او که واجد توانایی فطری در نقل قول ماجراها و دارای حافظه‌ای افسانه‌ای و تخیل خیره‌کننده و تجربه‌ی عظیم انسان‌ها بود، برصدد نیامد که نویسنده شود: بلکه ناگزیر شد که نویسندگی پیشه کند. رمان‌هایش هم‌چون گدازه‌های آتش از درونش پرتاب شد. بایستی که می‌نوشت؛
تنوع آثار ژوزه مائورو ده واسکونسلوس او را در
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The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins and Matthew Sweet

4.3
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinist
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

Dan Brown

4.3
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in
DK Denmark: Must-See Sights. Culture & History. Detailed Maps & Tours. Covers Copenhagen, Aarhus, Faroe Islands, & more (Travel Guide) book cover33

DK Denmark: Must-See Sights. Culture & History. Detailed Maps & Tours. Covers Copenhagen, Aarhus, Faroe Islands, & more (Travel Guide)

DK Travel

4.2

Make your trip to Denmark extraordinaryCycling canal-side in Copenhagen. Exploring Viking heritage in historic Ribe. Snacking on smørrebrød in lively Aarhus. Denmark is home to countless incredible experiences. Whatever your dream trip involves, this DK travel guide is the perfect companion.Our updated guide brings Denmark to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert

Streetwise Copenhagen Map: Laminated City Center Street Map of Copenhagen, Denmark (Michelin Streetwise Maps) book cover34

Streetwise Copenhagen Map: Laminated City Center Street Map of Copenhagen, Denmark (Michelin Streetwise Maps)

Michelin

4.2

Streetwise Copenhagen Map is a laminated city center map of Copenhagen, Denmark in an accordion-fold pocket size format. The map is fully indexed with streets and points of interest.Includes a metro map.Dimensions: 4" x 8.5" foldedFor driving or planning your trip to and from Denmark, use Michelin Denmark Map No. 749

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Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)

Dan Brown

4.2
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned gl
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Top 10 Copenhagen

DK Eyewitness

4.2
Newly updated, revised, and redesigned for 2018.

True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Copenhagen covers all the city's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.

This newly updated pocket travel guide to Copenhagen will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, whether you want to stroll ar
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Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

4.2

Introducing an instant classic—master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.

Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic
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Depois das caravelas: as relações entre Portugal e o Brasil (1808-2000)

Amado Luiz Cervo

4.2
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Villa Kyrial

Marcia Camargos

4.2
Este é um livro, bem escrito e de leitura agradável, muito importante para a história cultural de São Paulo pois recupera a Villa Kyrial e seu animador, José de Freitas Valle, que teve brilhante atuação nas artes, na literatura e na instrução.
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Flaskepost fra P (Afdeling Q, #3)

Jussi Adler-Olsen

4.2
I Skotlands yderste ende, helt oppe på politistationen i Wick, havde en grøn, ridset flaske stået i en vindueskarm i ganske, ganske lang tid. Den var lille. Ingen tog notits af den, og ingen bemærkede brevet indeni.

Derfor undrede ingen sig over, hvad de halvt udviskede bogstaver HJÆLP mon kunne betyde.

Da politikommissær Carl Mørck ad omveje får overdraget den gamle flaskepost, tror han i første om
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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

Jane Mount

4.2
The ultimate gift for book lovers, this volume brims with literary treasures, all delightfully illustrated by beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf, Jane Mount.
Book lovers, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. Readers will:

• Tour the world's most beautiful bookstor
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Copenhagen Grayscale: Adult Coloring Book (Grayscale Coloring Trips)

Paul Mc Namara

4.2
BALTIC SEA CRUISE PORTS TRAVEL GUIDE 2026–2027: Experience Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, and Beyond with Local Flavors, Shore Excursions, and Practical Planning book cover43

BALTIC SEA CRUISE PORTS TRAVEL GUIDE 2026–2027: Experience Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, and Beyond with Local Flavors, Shore Excursions, and Practical Planning

GEORGETTE A. ROBICHAUD

4.2

Nine countries. One cruise. Zero wasted hours in port.You step off the ship with eight hours, maybe less. The crowds head for the first gift shop they see. You want something better: a real plan for Copenhagen's canals, Stockholm's old town, Tallinn's medieval streets, or whichever port stands between you and your next sail-away.This guide was built for exactly that problem.What makes this differe

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Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer, Richard Graves, Peter Fleming, His Holiness The Dalai Lama

4.2
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.
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The Absent One (Department Q, #2)

Jussi Adler-Olsen

4.2
In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases. The result wasn’t what Mørck—or readers—expected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsen’s shocking, fast-paced follow-up, Mørck is satisfied with the notion of picking up long-cold leads. So he’s naturally intr
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The Gunslinger

Stephen King, George Guidall, et al

4.2
In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the K
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Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen

Lonely Planet and Cristian Bonetto

4.2
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Enjoy all the fun of the fair at Tivoli Gardens, relive history at the engrossing Nationalmuseet, or be inspired at Louisiana, one of Europe's great modern art museums -all with your trust
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The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World's Happiest People

Meik Wiking

4.2
Meik Wiking understands happiness better than anyone. In his role as Founder and CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute, he has travelled the globe interviewing the world's happiest people to discover the key components of happiness.

In The Key to Happiness, Meik explores the hidden treasures which can improve your happiness, and divides them into the six building blocks of happiness;
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The Complete Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen, Lily Owens

4.2
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The Trial

Franz Kafka, Breon Mitchell

4.2
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the exc
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As barbas do imperador: D. Pedro II, um monarca nos trópicos

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

4.2
Misto de ensaio interpretativo e biografia de d. Pedro II, este livro materializa o mito monárquico ao descrever, por exemplo, a construção dos palácios, a mistura de ritos franceses com costumes brasileiros, a maneira como a boa sociedade praticava a arte de bem civilizar-se, a criação de medalhas, emblemas, dísticos e brasões, a participação do monarca e o uso de sua imagem em festas populares.
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Profiles in Courage

John F Kennedy

4.2
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.

Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American.

In this book Kennedy chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding
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The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai and Robert Alter

4.1
The largest English-language collection to date from Israel’s finest poet

Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably accessible poems, vivid in their evocation of the Israeli landscape and historical predicament, yet universally resonant. His are some of the most moving love poems writ
DK Top 10 Copenhagen: Top 10 lists for your perfect trip, plus an all-weather folded map (Pocket Travel Guide) book cover54

DK Top 10 Copenhagen: Top 10 lists for your perfect trip, plus an all-weather folded map (Pocket Travel Guide)

DK Travel

4.1

The world’s favourite pocket travel guidesMake the most of your trip to Copenhagen this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Copenhagen has to offer and ensuring that you don’t miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about.Inside this guide to Copenhagen, you’ll f

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The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

Helen Russell

4.1
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. When Helen Russell is forced to move to rural Jutland, can she discover the secrets of their happiness? Or will the long, dark winters and pickled herring take their toll?

A Year of Living Danishly looks at where the Danes get it right, where they get it wrong, and how we might just benefit from living a little more Danishly ourselves.
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Moon Grand European Journeys: 40 Unforgettable Trips by Road, Rail, Sea & More (Travel Guide)

Lucas Peters, Moon Travel Guides

4.1

Get inspired and get ready for adventure with the ultimate guide to Europe’s best trips! Moon Grand European Journeys: 40 Unforgettable Trips by Road, Rail, Sea & More features:Strategic lists and itineraries for every type of journey: Choose from the best cities, road trips, rail excursions, outdoor adventures, and more, with ideas for first-timers, solo travelers, and families Can't-miss stops t

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A Capital da Solidão: Uma História de São Paulo, das Origens a 1900

Roberto Pompeu de Toledo

4.1
De todos os paradoxos de São Paulo, um dos maiores é o que oferece o cotejo de seu presente com o seu passado. A metrópole vertiginosa e trepidante de hoje nasceu distante, fora do alcance dos navios portugueses, escondida pela serra do Mar – uma barreira que foi obstáculo, mas também desafio a vencer, definindo a personalidade desta São Paulo.

Convidado pela editora Objetiva para escrever este liv
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

Jonas Jonasso

4.1
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health. A big celebration is in the works for his 100th birthday, but Allan really isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption), so he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)

Dan Brown

4.1
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a
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Pocket Rough Guide Copenhagen: Travel Guide with Free eBook (Pocket Rough Guides)

Rough Guides

4.1

This compact, pocket-sized Copenhagen travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips and those trying to make the most of Copenhagen. It’s light, easily portable and comes equipped with a pull-out map. This Copenhagen guidebook covers: Tivoli and Rådhuspladsen, Strøget and the Inner City, Slotsholmen, Nyhavn and Frederiksstaden, Rosenborg and around, Christianshavn and Holmen, Vesterbro

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Digital Fortress

Dan Brow

4.1
When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would c
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Streetwise Copenhagen Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Copenhagen, Denmark (Michelin Streetwise Maps)

Michelin

4.1
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Olhai os Lírios do Campo

Erico Verissimo

4.1
Eugênio Pontes, moço de origem humilde, a custo se forma médico e, graças a um casamento por interesse, ingressa na elite da sociedade. Nesse percurso, porém, é obrigado a virar as costas para a família, deixar de lado antigos ideais humanitários e abandonar a mulher que realmente ama. Sensível, comovente, "Olhai os Lírios do Campo" é um convite à reflexão sobre os valores autênticos da vida.
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Blindness

Jose Saramago

4.1
From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy w
Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen: Discover Twice the City in Half the Time | Top Sights | Maps & Walking Tours | Covers Tivoli, Nyhavn, Christianshavn and more (Pocket Guide) book cover65

Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen: Discover Twice the City in Half the Time | Top Sights | Maps & Walking Tours | Covers Tivoli, Nyhavn, Christianshavn and more (Pocket Guide)

Abigail Blasi

4.1

Discover twice the city in half the time as Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to Copenhagen. This latest edition uncovers the city's most popular experiences and unexpected surprises from swimming in the sparkling waters of Copenhagen's harbour, to living like a proper Dane and tucking into a smørrebrød (open sandwich) for lunch, and f

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The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1)

Lene Kaaberbol, Agnete Friis

4.1
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked an
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O Império Luso-Brasileiro (1750-1822)

Harold Johnson, Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, Joel Serrao, A.H. de Oliveira Marques

4.1
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Clayton (The Wildflower Series Book 1)

Rachelle Mills

4.1
Eat Copenhagen: Recipes and Stories From Scandinavia book cover69

Eat Copenhagen: Recipes and Stories From Scandinavia

Trine Hahnemann

4.1

A collection of recipes from an effortlessly stylish city, interspersed with stories that set the culinary scene of the Danish capital. From the chic restaurants of Vesterbro to the buzzing streets of Nørrebro, eating in Copenhagen is quite unlike dining anywhere else in the world. Known for its innovation, the city’s calming vibe draws people from everywhere, and for good reason.Eat Copenhagen ex

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Music & Silence

Rose Tremain

4.1
Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain's dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and counterpoint: loyalty and deception...tenderness and violence...community and alienation...peace and conflict..."Music & Silence." Peter Claire is an English lutenist summoned to Denmark to join King Christian IV's royal o
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The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, #2)

Steve Berry

4.1
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Emperor’s Tomb and a Cotton Malone dossier.

Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I want. You’ re the only person on earth who knows
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Rick Steves Northern European Cruise Ports

Rick Steves

4.1
You've booked your cruise through Northern Europe: now what? Explore Europe's magnificent port cities with Rick Steves Northern European Cruise Ports!
Rick Steves' expertise on how to have a meaningful cultural experience when you only have a few hours in each city
Unlike other cruising guidebooks, Rick focuses on the main attraction: the most beautiful cities in Northern Europe
Full coverage of 18 p
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Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

4.1
When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assistant and longtime enemy, his production of The Tempest is canceled and he is heartbroken. Reduced to a life of exile in rural southern Ontario—accompanied only by his fantasy daughter, Miranda, who died twelve years ago—Felix devises a plan for retribution.

Eventually he takes a job teaching Literacy T
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Maria Bonita: Sexo, violência e mulheres no cangaço

Adriana Negreiros

4.1
Desde os anos 1990, a data de nascimento de Maria Bonita passou a ser celebrada no Dia Internacional da Mulher. Com o tempo, ela transformou-se em uma marca poderosa, emprestando seu nome a centenas de pousadas e restaurantes espalhados pelo Nordeste, salões de beleza, academias de ginástica, cerveja, pizza, assentamento rural, música, bandas de forró e coletivos feministas.

Enquanto a companheira
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The Shock of the Fall

Nathan Filer

4.1
What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night, in the years since, and to his very person.

While on vacation with their parents, Matthew Homes and his older brother snuck out in the middle of the night. Only Matthew came home safely. Ten years later, Matthew tells us, he has found a way to bring his brother back...

What begi
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D. João VI no Brasil

Oliveira Lima

4.0
D. João VI no Brasil - Lançado originalmente em 1909, este clássico da historiografia brasileira teve uma segunda edição apenas em 1945, e depois ficou mais de meio século fora das livrarias. Com prefácio do crítico Wilson Martins, o livro de Manuel de Oliveira Lima é utilizado como base de estudos para a confecção de obras de época, entre romances, filmes, peças de teatro e seriados de televisão,
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Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking

Darra Goldstein

4.0
Bringing the best of Scandinavian home-cooking into your kitchen, Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking offers over 100 delicious recipes that showcase this region’s most beloved sweet and savory dishes.

Scandinavia is a region of extremes—where effortlessly chic design meets rugged wilderness, and perpetual winter nights are followed by endless days of summer—and Fire and Ice proves that Scandinav
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Frommer's Copenhagen day by day

Chris Peacock

4.0
Copenhagen, sometimes referred to as a "fairytale place", is surely among the most delightful cities of Europe. The home of Hans Christian Anderson, and the location of the world-famous "Tivoli Gardens", which so inspired Walt Disney, it is one of the most heavily-visited destinations on the continent, attracting many millions of visitors each year.

With this handy, pocket-sized, and thoroughly rev
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My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk and Erdag Gokna

4.0
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.

The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the
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Blodmåne (Kørner/Werner, #2)

Katrine Engber

4.0
Det er en iskold Københavnsk vinter som politiassistent Jeppe Kørner vender hjem til efter en lang rejse. Med hjem fra sin rejse bringer han fornyet livsmod og en meget ung kæreste. Der går dog ikke længe før den danske vinterkulde får feriestemningen til at fordampe.

En mand bliver fundet død i en snedrive i Ørstedparken. Politiet tror, at det drejer sig om en hjemløs, der er frosset ihjel. Da det
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Gabriela, clavo y canela

Jorge Amado

4.0
Gabriela, clavo y canela es una bella metáfora del cambio y el progreso. La historia de Ilhéus, pequeño pueblo de Brasil donde se desarrolla la novela, sirve de marco al autor para relatar varias historias, entre ellas, la más importante, el amor entre Gabriela y Nacib.

El lector recorre junto con los protagonistas el trayecto que conduce al motivo argumental de la novela: la llegada de la modernid
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Bye bye blackbird (Axel Steen, #2)

Jesper Stein and Maria Valeria D'Avin

4.0
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13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)

Maureen Johnson

4.0
Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.

In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat.

The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist.

Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke about town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous though utterly romantic results. But will she ever see him again?

Everythi
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The 500 Hidden Secrets of Copenhagen

Austin Sailsbury

4.0
An insider's guide to Copenhagen and its hidden secrets and addresses An inspirational and practical guide to Copenhagen's finest and most interesting places, buildings, restaurants, shops, museums, galleries, neighborhoods, gardens and cafes A new edition in Luster's successful and attractive series of city guides Photography by Tino van den BerghWhere are the 5 best places in Copenhagen to exper
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Copenhagen Food: Stories, Tradition and Recipes

Trine Hahnemann

4.0
The food culture of Copenhagen is woven into the fabric of Trine's daily life; she has lived in the heart of Copenhagen for more than 40 years. There is no smorrebrod, hot dog, ice cream, or coffee she hasn't tasted in this quietly gastronomic capital city.

Now, in this ground-breaking book, Trine takes us on a tour of her home town, introducing us to all the best spots to eat, drink, and catch up
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Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

Rudolph E. Tanzi Ph.D., Deepak Chopra

4.0
A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, Super Brain shows you how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The authors are two pioneers: bestselling author and physician Deepak Chopra and Harvard Medical School professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer’s. They have merged their wisd
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The Torso (Inspector Huss #3)

Helene Tursten, Katarina Emilie Tucker

4.0

Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Göteborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police. Then a third corpse is discovered. This time it’s identified. It is a girl Detective Huss knew; she had been asked b

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O Homem Que Matou Getúlio Vargas: Biografia De Um Anarquista

Jô Soares

4.0
Uma biografia imaginária de Dimitri Borja Korozec, um anarquista especializado em assassinatos políticos, que se caracteriza por uma espantosa dificuldade em atingir as metas às quais se propõe. Sua 'propensão natural pela catástrofe' fará dele eternamente o homem certo na hora errada. Porém, não lhe falta perseverança e ele vai mudando de cidade e de país, sempre convencido de que sua missão é ma
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Pasión india

Javier Moro

4.0
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Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

4.0
Observer's 'Rising Stars of 2017'
'A novelist to watch' Sunday Times
'The Book of the Summer' Refinery29
'Hugely enjoyable romantic comedy' Metro, FIVE STARS • • • • •
'Truly beguiles... Heralds a fresh new voice in fiction' Stylist, FIVE STARS • • • • •

Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and frien
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Fábulas

Sophie Piper and Panamericana

4.0
“Fábulas”, de Monteiro Lobato, saiu pela primeira vez em 1922. Neste livro, o criados do Sítio do Picapau Amarelo reconta fábulas de Esopo e La Fontaine e publica algumas de sua autoria. Adaptadas para o universo do Sítio, as fábulas estimulam a participação de todos os personagens através de perguntas e críticas. Nesta nova edição da obra de Lobato, cada volume adaptado é ilustrado por um artista
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Denmark

DK Travel

4.0
This guide will help you explore Copenhagen, learn about the country's Viking history, its beautiful natural landscape, Danish design, and the art of hygge, and get hotel and restaurant recommendations and insider tips to help you plan the perfect trip.

Discover the historic amusement park of Tivoli and the prestigious Nationalmuseet. Hike around Denmark's spectacular waterways, discover Aarhus, a
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Saints for All Occasions

J. Courtney Sullivan

4.0
A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.

Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America.

Nora is the responsible sister; she’s shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn’t sure that sh
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Boca de Luar

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

4.0
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Copenhagen Popout Map

PopOut Maps

4.0
The ultimate pocket map of Copenhagen! Explore the chic city of Copenhagen with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail, this compact, dependable, city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. • Includes 2 popout maps - a detailed street map of Copenhagen city centre as well as an overview map of greater Copenhagen • Additional transit maps are also incl
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Invisible In A Bright Light

Sally Gardner

4.0
From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light, Sally Gardner's first middle grade novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A pitch-perfect story about a crystal chandelier that splinters into a thousand pieces, a girl abandoned as a baby on the steps of an opera house and a dangerous game called the Reckoning.

It is 1870: opening night at the Royal Opera House in a
Coloring Copenhagen: A coloring book of Copenhagens most beautiful sights: Perfect for Travel Lovers, Architecture Enthusiasts, and Coloring Fans of All Ages book cover97

Coloring Copenhagen: A coloring book of Copenhagens most beautiful sights: Perfect for Travel Lovers, Architecture Enthusiasts, and Coloring Fans of All Ages

Copenhagen Publishing

4.0

Discover the charm of Copenhagen with Coloring Copenhagen. This delightful coloring book invites you to explore the Danish capital through intricately designed illustrations perfect for color enthusiasts of all ages. Whether you’re a Copenhagen native, a traveler reminiscing about your visit, or simply an admirer of European architecture, this book offers a relaxing and creative escape.Featuring b

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Baltasar and Blimunda

Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero

4.0
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth centur
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The Bookseller of Kabul

Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen

4.0
In spring 2002, following the fall of the Taliban, Åsne Seierstad spent four months living with a bookseller and his family in Kabul.

For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities—be they communist or Taliban—to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists, and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the s
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The Postcard Killers

James Patterson, Liza Marklund

4.0
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer.

Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects t