The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
By: Gore Vidal
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Like his National Book Award--winning United States, Gore Vidal's scintillating ninth collection, T…
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1. The Mourning Bride
By: William Congreve
3.40
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
William Congreve (1670-1729) was an English playwright and poet. He wrote some of the most popular … read more
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- classics
2. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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- literature
- classics
"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
3. A Quiet Flame (Bernie Gunther, #5)
By: Philip Kerr
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Unknown Binding
Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is no… read more
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4. An Area of Darkness
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darknessis Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
6. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
By: Richard Nelson Bolles
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A favourite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a ma… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
By: Virginia Holman
3.59
Format: None pages,
A startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind and a movin… read more
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8. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
By: Gore Vidal
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Like his National Book Award--winning United States, Gore Vidal's scintillating ninth collection, T… read more
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- classics
- history
- literature
- politics
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
9. Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
By: John Banville , J.G. Farrell
3.83
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer ma… read more
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10. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
By: Nancy Milford
3.61
Format: 192 pages,
Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edn… read more
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- history
11. The Collected Stories
By: Eudora Welty
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
With a preface written by the author especially for this edition, this is the complete collection o… read more
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- literature
- classics
12. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
By: Simone de Beauvoir , James Kirkup
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Bea… read more
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- nonfiction
13. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7)
By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir(1877) is the story of a woman's struggl… read more
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- literature
- classics
14. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
By: John Toland
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Ja… read more
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- history
15. Field Gray (Bernard Gunther, #7)
By: Philip Kerr
3.75
Format: None pages,
Philip Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler, the realpolitik of vint… read more
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16. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
By: John Le Carré
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
"Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhab… read more
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17. The General in His Labyrinth
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more
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18. The Kings of Cool
By: Don Winslow
5.00
Format: 120 pages, ebook
In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything … read more
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19. The Satanic Verses
By: Salman Rushdie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more
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20. A Hero of Our Time
By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more
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21. My Beloved World
By: Sonia Sotomayor
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life… read more
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22. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
By: Robert D. Kaplan
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croa… read more
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23. Letters to a Young Contrarian
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens ins… read more
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24. Telex from Cuba
By: Rachel Kushner
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
RACHEL KUSHNER HAS WRITTEN AN ASTONISHINGLY wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American… read more
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25. A Brief History of Seven Killings
By: Marlon James
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Wome… read more
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26. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- essays
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
27. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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28. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
By: Chris Frantz
3.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more
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- history
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
29. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.32
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
By: Dolly Parton
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stori… read more
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"I wake up with new dreams everyday."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I got dreams so big they'd scare some people."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I just wanted to be different. I wanted to be seen."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose, with purpose."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
31. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
By: Rick Perlstein
4.34
Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover
A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more
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- history
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