Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered
By: Turtle Bunbury
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This volume delves into Ireland’s forgotten history bringing to light some of the most colorful cha…
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1. Scoop
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more
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"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
2. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
By: Thomas Cahill
3.81
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and cul… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"Each one of us will die, naked and alone, on some battlefield not of our own choosing."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident—and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
3. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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4. Mystery Cults of the Ancient World
By: Hugh Bowden
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is the first book to describe and explain all of the ancient world's major mystery cults--one … read more
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5. The Táin: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge
By: Anonymous , Thomas Kinsella , Louis Le Brocquy
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's… read more
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6. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
4.11
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more
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"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
7. The Tooth Fairy
By: Graham Joyce
3.68
Format: 208 pages,
Sam and his friends are like any normal gang of normal young boys--roaming wild around the outskirt… read more
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8. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
9. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
By: Manchán Magan
4.27
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them – a field of corn-grassTuar – a fiel… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- irish literature
- ireland
11. Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
By: Alistair Moffat
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
While Scotland’s history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints, and warriors, there… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
12. Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
By: Darach Ó Séaghdha
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'Thought-provoking, irreverent and often laugh-out-loud hilarious' Irish Independent . "Motherfocló… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- irish literature
- ireland
"This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn it at school."-Darach Ó Séaghdha, Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
13. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
14. To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the h… read more
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- nonfiction
- ireland
- audiobook
"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe."-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act."-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family…"-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"...I took a deep breath and a first step, and both eventually led me to the knowledge that I was capable of things bigger than I had imagined. I think every child should have an experience like the f…"-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
15. How to Find a Princess (Runaway Royals, #2)
By: Alyssa Cole
3.51
Format: 367 pages, Mass Market Paperback
New York Times and USA Today bestseller Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer Anasta… read more
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- audiobook
16. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology
By: Ellen Datlow
3.65
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more
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17. Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
By: Dan Jones
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Cr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
19. The Ride of Her Life
By: Jennifer Dugan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer r… read more
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"She's coming undone right in front of me and it's turning me on. It should not be turning me on."-Jennifer Dugan, The Ride of Her Life
20. Luckenbooth
By: Jenni Fagan
3.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Life is so much more than we can manage it to be, it is so much more sudden than we are able to understand."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"My ma said: only love a man who reads books and understands them properly. If they don't read books don't go their bed. Ever!"-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"Such is the way. It’s like a disease. Love: 80 per cent proof. Risk of death if you drink it. Can send you mad, bad, blind and delirious."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"There is cheering out on the street. There is dancing. People meet and fall in love. Scuffles break out. They drink far too much. All of life is happening."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
21. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
By: Hana Videen
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
22. Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered
By: Turtle Bunbury
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This volume delves into Ireland’s forgotten history bringing to light some of the most colorful cha… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
23. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
24. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
25. Taking Sides
By: Sherine Tadros
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist — and her rousing de… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Samurai: A Concise History
By: Michael Wert
3.42
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly mar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. The Butchers' Blessing
By: Ruth Gilligan
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then … read more
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- historical
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
28. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ
By: Catherine Nixey
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New Yo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
29. Ireland's Pirate Trail: A Quest to Uncover our Swashbuckling Past
By: Des Ekin
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary d… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- ireland
30. Foster's Historical Irish Oddities (Foster's Oddities Book 3)
By: Allen Foster
3.79
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Strange, zany and at times downright baffling, Foster’s Historical Irish Oddities is a quirky compe… read more
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