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All Quiet on the Western Front

Novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front

Lenin’s Tomb

Lenin’s Mausoleum (from 1953 to 1961 Lenin’s & Stalin’s Mausoleum) (Russian: , tr. Mavzoley Lenina, IPA: [mvzlej lenn]), also known as Lenin’s Tomb, situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow, is a mausoleum that serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. His preserved body has been on public display there …

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Excellent Women

Novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952, her second published novel and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.

Kiss the Girls

Psychological thriller novel by American writer James Patterson, the second to star his recurring main character Alex Cross, an African-American psychologist and policeman