The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
By: Edward Wilson-Lee
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fracti…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, "-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, "-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, <>"-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, <>"-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
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1. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.02
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love… read more
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"It is epokhe all the way."-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"Some might question whether there is still any need for an essayist such as Montaigne. Twenty-first century people, in the developed world, are already individualistic to excess, as well as entwined …"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience - but, as Montaigne learned, one of the best techniques for doing this is to write about everything. Simply describing…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
2. Oona & Salinger
By: Frédéric Beigbeder
3.97
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
« Il arrive toujours un moment où les hommes semblent attendre la catastrophe qui réglera leurs pro… read more
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3. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
By: Stephen Greenblatt
3.87
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award… read more
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4. Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
By: Nancy Goldstone
4.00
Format: 32 pages,
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5. Under the Jaguar Sun
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver , None
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
"The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavo… read more
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6. Vathek
By: William Beckford
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author … read more
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7. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
By: Richard Holmes
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been insp… read more
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8. Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology--from its amateur … read more
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9. Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure, and Survival
By: Nate Hardcastle
3.50
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Deep Blue is a book about things that go wrong at sea (and under the sea), and what happens when th… read more
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10. Encounter
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unpa… read more
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11. The World to Come
By: Dara Horn
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thie… read more
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12. Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (Vivian Apple, #2)
By: Katie Coyle
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
"GET ANGRY. We should all be so pissed at the Church of America that we're willing to break our han… read more
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13. BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
By: John Palfrey
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can becom… read more
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14. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
By: Susan Orlean
0.00
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Allegedly found in the ruins of a bombed-out dog kennel in France during World War I, then brought … read more
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15. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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16. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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- history
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17. 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
18. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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19. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
By: Richard Dawkins
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science wri… read more
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"These beliefs contradict each other, so they can’t be all right"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"If I’d been born in ancient Greece, I’d worship Zeus and Aphrodite"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it."-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn’t wrong too?"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
20. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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21. 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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22. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
4.21
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more
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23. The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
By: Benjamin Moser
4.20
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser be… read more
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24. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more
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25. The Bend in Redwood Road (Missing Pieces, #1)
By: Danielle Stewart
4.17
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Most days it's manageable. No more than a quiet wondering around the edges of her mind. What has … read more
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26. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
27. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
By: Anita Anand
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his… read more
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28. The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
By: Edward Wilson-Lee
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fracti… read more
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"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, "-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, <>"-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, "Oh, che abisso è qui.../povero il mio stomaco che tanto si arrovella!"-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella sicché mi dissi, "Oh, che abisso è qui... povero il mio stomaco che tanto si arrovella!"-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
29. In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature
By: Torbjørn Ekelund
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped dri… read more
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30. The King at the Edge of the World
By: Arthur Phillips
3.55
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
"One of the best writers in America" (The Washington Post) delivers a mesmerizing new novel in whic… read more
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31. The Lady Waiting
By: Magdalena Zyzak
3.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The White Lotus meets The Talented Mr. Ripley in this high-spirited novel of a stolen Vermeer, a Po… read more
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