The Abstainer
By: Ian McGuire
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody …
Want to Read $ 8.99"Midnight."-Ian McGuire, The Abstainer
"Midnight."-Ian McGuire, The Abstainer
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1. Black Tide (Jack Irish, #2)
By: Peter Temple
3.94
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Jack Irish is recovering from his last foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look fo… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
- audiobook
"I slumped in the chair. I'd known it was coming. Absolutely no doubt. You know. I'd been feeling sick about it for weeks. So, why did I now feel even sicker? Love. Not a word for casual use. The life…"-Peter Temple, Black Tide (Jack Irish, #2)
2. The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
By: Michael Grunwald
4.21
Format: 288 pages,
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3. The Outfit (Parker, #3)
By: Richard Stark
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more
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4. Der Hund / Der Tunnel / Die Panne
By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Drei Erzahlungen, darunter die beruhmte >Panne<: Weil sein Auto eine Panne hat, gerat Alfredo Traps… read more
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5. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- novels
- audiobook
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
6. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
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
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- novels
- audiobook
"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
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8. ラブネスト(上) [Love Nest 1]
By: Yuu Minaduki
4.11
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
愛とか、恋とか、もういらない。 消えない傷が、俺のなかにずっとある――。 引っ越し先を探す間、行きつけのゲイバーのオーナーの 別宅に住むことになった穂積匡人(ほづみまさと)。 だがそ… read more
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9. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
10. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- historical
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
11. Munich Wolf
By: Rory Clements
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
12. Moon & Sun, Vol. 1
By: Akane Abe
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A laid-back yakuza heir and a striking cross-dressing beauty start an unlikely love affair.A yakuza… read more
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13. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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- audiobook
14. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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- historical
- crime
- audiobook
15. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
By: Denise Mina
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more
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- historical fiction
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- crime
- audiobook
16. Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride #1)
By: Paul Howarth
4.04
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of po… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
17. The Abstainer
By: Ian McGuire
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
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- novels
- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"Midnight."-Ian McGuire, The Abstainer
18. The Darkest Season
By: R.J. Ellory
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Jasperville, Quebec. A small town a thousand miles from anywhere. For Jack Devereaux, it's a thous… read more
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- mystery
- crime
19. Cold Reckoning (DS Adam Tyler #3)
By: Russ Thomas
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
The new must-read novel from the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of FIREWATCHING and NIGHTH… read more
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- fiction
20. Die Summe des Ganzen: Roman (German Edition)
By: Steven Uhly
3.92
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
Madrid, in der Zwei Menschen begegnen einander im Beichtstuhl einer kleinen Pfarrkirche am nordöst… read more
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21. Sonny and Me
By: Ross Sayers
4.38
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
FOURTH YEAR. TWO PALS. ONE MURDER. WELCOME TO BATTLEFIELD HIGH… ‘Whoever said yer school days ar… read more
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