The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
By: Ben Lewis
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discover…
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1. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
By: Philip Mould
3.75
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun What separates … read more
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2. The Lost Painting
By: Jonathan Harr
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in … read more
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3. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
By: Edward Dolnick
3.50
Format: None pages,
Tijdens de Duitse bezetting van Nederland heeft Han van Meegeren fortuin gemaakt met het vervalsen … read more
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4. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
By: Anthony M. Amore , Tom Mashberg
4.10
Format: 224 pages,
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5. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more
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6. The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
By: Tim White , Randall Richard , Wayne Worcester
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank us… read more
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7. Leonardo and the Last Supper
By: Ross King
3.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most inf… read more
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8. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more
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9. How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body
By: David R. Hamilton
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
Illustrating the power of positive thought, David R. Hamilton explains how thoughts and emotions ca… read more
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10. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
By: Sue Roe
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more
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11. Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
By: John Shiffman , Robert K. Wittman
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Wall Street Journal called him "a living legend." The London Times dubbed him "the most famous … read more
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12. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
By: Michael Cox
3.88
Format: 496 pages,
An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more
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13. The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
By: None
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair "The True … read more
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14. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
By: Ross King
3.26
Format: None pages,
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15. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
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16. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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17. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
18. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
By: Philippa Langley
3.67
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more
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19. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more
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20. The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
By: Ben Lewis
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discover… read more
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21. Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
By: Joseph Luzzi
3.77
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of uneart… read more
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22. The Curse of Pietro Houdini
By: Derek B. Miller
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more
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"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini
23. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By: Richard Thompson Ford
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more
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24. Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
By: Hugh Eakin
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center… read more
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25. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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26. Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
By: Ben Wilson
4.14
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From a brilliant young historian, a colorful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world citie… read more
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27. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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28. The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex (The Quantum Curators #3)
By: Eva St. John
4.11
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
The gods don’t exist but who’s going to tell them? Something is rotten in the heart of Alexandri… read more
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29. The Quantum Curators and the Shattered Timeline (The Quantum Curators #4)
By: Eva St. John
4.36
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
Any fool can destroy the timeline. Fixing it requires nerves of steel! Minju Chen survived the cou… read more
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30. The First Actress
By: C.W. Gortner
4.07
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
The tumultuous life of the legendary French star Sarah Bernhardt--the world's first modern actress … read more
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31. The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370
By: Florence de Changy
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen in close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not poss… read more
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