The Tudors. Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
By: Elizabeth Cleland
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs brought changes to England that…
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1. The Merry Wives of Windsor
By: William Shakespeare
3.55
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"I assure thee: setting the attractions of my good parts aside I have no other charms."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
2. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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3. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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- nonfiction
"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
4. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
By: Gareth Russell
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretati… read more
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5. Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
By: Pat Shipman
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than… read more
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6. Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
By: Martin Dugard
3.50
Format: 519 pages, Paperback
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7. The Wars of the Roses
By: Alison Weir
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for… read more
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8. The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction
By: Atef Abu Saif , None
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Bringing together a dozen of Palestine's greatest modern prose writers, this unique anthology sets … read more
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9. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
By: Alison Weir
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unpr… read more
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10. African Psycho
By: Alain Mabanckou , None
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis's infamous book, but while Ellis's narrator was a blank slate, … read more
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11. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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12. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)
By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more
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13. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- nonfiction
14. These Truths: A History of the United States
By: Jill Lepore
4.40
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more
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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
15. A Child Alone With Strangers
By: Philip Fracassi
4.28
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more
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16. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
By: Shelley Puhak
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Thomas Cromwell: A Life
By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
4.10
Format: 728 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obsc… read more
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18. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
19. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
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20. Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
By: Gemma Hollman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare.… read more
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21. Renaissance: The Transformation of the West
By: Jennifer McNabb
4.03
Format: 27 pages, Audible Audio
26 hours and 35 minutes While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of th… read more
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22. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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23. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
By: Joanne Paul
4.17
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther
By: Craig Pittman
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very … read more
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25. Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours, a Bilingual Edition (English and French Edition)
By: Robert Kehew
4.07
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their song… read more
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26. The Wife of Bath: A Biography
By: Marion Turner
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous characte… read more
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27. The Tudors. Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
By: Elizabeth Cleland
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs brought changes to England that… read more
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28. Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
By: Donna M. Lucey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey il… read more
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29. Seeking Chicago: The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City-One Building at a Time
By: Tom Miller
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Richly detailed and full of engaging stories, this charming guide traces the history of Chicago's u… read more
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30. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
By: Michiko Iwasaka
3.73
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In t… read more
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31. Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present
By: Clement Knox
3.27
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through… read more
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