The Great Passion
By: James Runcie
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s…
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1. The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)
By: Edmund Crispin
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Richard Cadogan's Oxford holiday turns into a mystery solving adventure full of dangerous twists an… read more
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- fiction
"What are you going to do with your self now?'... 'I? said Fen. 'I shall pursue my orderly and dignified progress towards the grave."-Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)
2. Rhine Journey
By: Ann Schlee
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Necropoli
By: Boris Pahor , Ezio Martin
4.50
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Campo di concentramento di Natzweiler-Struthof sui Vosgi. L'uomo che vi arriva, un pomeriggio d'est… read more
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4. The Heather Blazing
By: Colm Tóibín
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappea… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
By: Christoph Wolff
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the compos… read more
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6. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.77
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more
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- fiction
7. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
8. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
By: Andrew Wilson
4.51
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more
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9. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
10. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
- religion
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
11. Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
By: Jeremy Denk
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music--its p… read more
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- music
"You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?"-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"And what else is music but a space for us to live in, for a while."-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"Remember: music is not the notes. It is between the notes. [György Sebők]"-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"Evil moment, when you doubt the magician's magic, when you wonder if it was more image than insight."-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
12. Know and Tell: The Art of Narration
By: Karen Glass
4.52
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Narration, the art of telling, has been used as a pedagogical tool since ancient times. Over one hu… read more
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- adult
13. Flatlands
By: Sue Hubbard
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A moving tale of unlikely friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild wetland landscape of… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)
By: Kate Hilton
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more
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- fiction
15. The Painter's Daughters
By: Emily Howes
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
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- historical
- 18th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
16. Killingly
By: Katharine Beutner
3.39
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves … read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story
By: Jessie Childs
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war. A g… read more
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- historical
- religion
18. The Great Passion
By: James Runcie
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s… read more
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- music
- classical music
- historical
- germany
- religion
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 18th century
- novels
- adult
19. Höhenrausch: Das kurze Leben zwischen den Kriegen
By: Harald Jähner
4.38
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Deutschland, 1918. Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, Revolution, Sieg der Demokratie. Zugleich beginnt ei… read more
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- historical
- germany
20. Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times
By: Elizabeth Oldfield
4.26
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
'This remarkable book points not to some unreachable ideal of life but to a deeper, more soulful an… read more
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- religion
21. La Nuit des béguines
By: Aline Kiner
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Paris, 1310, quartier du Marais. Au grand béguinage royal, elles sont des centaines de femmes à viv… read more
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- religion
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- historical fiction
- novels
