Why We Love Middle-earth: An Enthusiast’s Book about Tolkien, Middle-earth & the LOTR Fandom
By: Alan Sisto
4.56
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Learn about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings in this Middle-earth treasury. Full of answers …
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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
2. Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member
By: Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager , Florence Fehrenbach , Jerome Fehrenbach , Steven Rendall
4.03
Format: 320 pages,
The last survivor of the plot to kill Hitler tells his story read more
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3. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
By: Joseph Loconte
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolki… read more
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4. The Children of Húrin
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more
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5. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
By: Humphrey Carpenter
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in Septembe… read more
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6. Letters from Father Christmas
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more
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- fantasy
7. Thieves' World (Thieves' World, #1)
By: John Brunner , Joe Haldeman , Marion Zimmer Bradley , Lynn Abbey , Poul Anderson , Robert Lynn Asprin , Andrew J. Offutt , None
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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8. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more
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9. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
By: Tom Shippey
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Recent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is "the most influential author of the … read more
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10. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.03
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more
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"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
11. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
By: Giles Milton
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secre… read more
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13. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more
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14. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Tom Shippey , Alan Lee
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by N… read more
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15. Star Wars: The Living Force
By: John Jackson Miller
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the year before The Phantom Menace, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the entire Jedi Council confront a gal… read more
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- fantasy
16. Why We Love Middle-earth: An Enthusiast’s Book about Tolkien, Middle-earth & the LOTR Fandom
By: Alan Sisto
4.56
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Learn about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings in this Middle-earth treasury. Full of answers … read more
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- fantasy
- books about books
17. The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth o… read more
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"Glory dwelt in that city of Gondolin of the Seven Names, and its ruin was the most dread of all the sacks of cities upon the face of Earth."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
"There long he sojourned alone and roamed about the shore or fared over the rocks at the ebb, marvelling at the pools and the great weeds, the dripping caverns and the strange sea-fowl that he saw and…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
"If I chose to send thee, Tour son of Hour, them believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marveling that…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
18. Anything You Can Imagine
By: Ian Nathan
4.34
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a… read more
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19. The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Dimitra Fimi
4.14
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Though there has been some contention over the title, J.R.R. Tolkien is regarded by many as the fat… read more
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20. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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- books about books
"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
21. Sugar on the Bones (Hap and Leonard, #13)
By: Joe R. Lansdale
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
PI Duo Hap & Leonard investigate the untimely death of a woman whose family stood much to gain from… read more
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