The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
By: Headline
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on th…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of the process, which sounds so mundane today, required invention."-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
"Decades later, it's striking to see the archival center clearly articulating the value of collections like Estelle's, using words that no one in the archdiocese could muster at the time of the sale: "The Archival Center," its website says today, "long ago embraced the notion expressed by Lawrence Clark Powell that: 'the collecting of books is...the summum bonum {highest good} of the acquisitive desire, for the reason that books brought together by plan and purposely kept together are a social force to be reckoned with, as long as people have clear eyes and free minds."-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
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1. Coming Clean
By: Kimberly Rae Miller
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squ… read more
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2. The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
By: William Alexander
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in … read more
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"Environmentalists blame the farmers for overdosing with pesticides, and the farmers blame the consumers for demanding blemish-free fruit."-William Alexander, The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
3. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
By: Ivan Doig
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens o… read more
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4. Interior Castle
By: Teresa de Ávila
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A cornerstone book on mystical theology, Interior Castledescribes the seven stages of union with Go… read more
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5. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
By: Christopher de Hamel
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
'An endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book' Neil MacGregor 'Full of delights' Tom Stoppard An ext… read more
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6. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
7. The Vengeance of Mothers (One Thousand White Women #2)
By: Jim Fergus
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The stunning sequel to the awarding winning novel One Thousand White Women 9 March 1876 My name is … read more
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8. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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9. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
10. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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11. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
By: Jonathan Meiburg
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey … read more
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12. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
By: Egill Bjarnason
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more
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- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
By: Headline
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on th… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- world history
- historical
- collections
- nonfiction
- microhistory
- books about books
- audiobook
"Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of t…"-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
"Decades later, it's striking to see the archival center clearly articulating the value of collections like Estelle's, using words that no one in the archdiocese could muster at the time of the sale: …"-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
14. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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15. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
By: Gregory J. Wallance
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more
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16. The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground
By: Justus Rosenberg
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and advent… read more
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17. The Last Daughter of York
By: Nicola Cornick
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“An engaging, fast-paced read for fans of Philippa Gregory and of dual-timeline historical fiction.… read more
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18. Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill (One Thousand White Women, #3)
By: Jim Fergus
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce … read more
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19. An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
By: Reza Aslan
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year… read more
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20. The Fairy Tellers
By: Nicholas Jubber
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Fairy-tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us somethin… read more
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21. Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit
By: Dan Hampton
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines … read more
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