A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
By: Edward Wilson-Lee
3.79
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Seville Communion
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Her name is Our Lady of the Tears. She's a small, crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville,… read more
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2. Independent People
By: Halldór Laxness , James Anderson Thompson
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last… read more
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3. The Ghost Writer
By: Philip Roth
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ghost Writerintroduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Grea… read more
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4. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
5. 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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- nonfiction
- history
6. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
7. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- travel
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
8. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
9. The Lion House
By: Christopher de Bellaigue
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Venice, 1522. Twenty-three men in robes of scarlet and blue assemble to hear the most sensitive int… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"The trouble with big empires is that the enemy is far away and there is weather in between."-Christopher de Bellaigue, The Lion House
10. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
12. Perspective(s)
By: Laurent Binet
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Florence, 1557. Le peintre Pontormo est retrouvé assassiné au pied des fresques auxquelles il trava… read more
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13. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
14. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.17
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
15. The Cat Who Caught a Killer (Conrad the Cat Detective #1)
By: L.T. Shearer
3.30
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Conrad the cat. You’ve never met a detective like him before. Neither has Lulu Lewis when h… read more
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16. Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
By: Marjorie M. Liu
4.24
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A new war between humans and Arcanics is bubbling to the surface. A rift in the sky has revealed th… read more
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"Violence is the first impulse of the wounded and the uninspired , and we... Dracul... are neither."-Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
"He betrayed you, too." "I can't abandon people because they make mistakes - I would have to abandon myself."-Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
17. Compass and Blade
By: Rachel Greenlaw
3.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This world of sea and storm runs deep with bargains and blood. On the remote isle of Rosevear, … read more
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18. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
By: Edward Wilson-Lee
3.79
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story se… read more
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- history
- biography
- true crime
- adventure
- travel
- portugal
- portuguese literature
- nonfiction
20. Todos os Contos
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.31
Format: 952 pages, Hardcover
Edgar Allan Poe é um dos autores mais publicados do mundo, conhecido pela genialidade expressa tamb… read more
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21. Frühstück am Rande der Apokalypse (German Edition)
By: Wladimir Kaminer
3.70
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
Was haben Familienalltag und Weltuntergang, globale Krisen und Mutters Kreuzworträtsel, Putin und P… read more
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