Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada
By: Elizabeth Drayson
3.59
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
'The true paradises are the paradises we have lost,' wrote Marcel Proust. This beautifully illustra…
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1. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
By: Louis de Bernières
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impo… read more
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2. The Return
By: Victoria Hislop
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secr… read more
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- spain
"They wound their way through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas... Each word held its magic. Th…"-Victoria Hislop, The Return
3. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
By: Robert C. Allen
3.98
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Eur… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. 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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5. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- history
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6. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration i… read more
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7. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Tom Shippey , Alan Lee
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by N… read more
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8. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- history
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
10. Lost Children Archive
By: Valeria Luiselli
3.81
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a fa… read more
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"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
11. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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12. Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
By: Giles Milton
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the af… read more
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13. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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15. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more
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16. The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
By: Violet Moller
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledg… read more
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"The history of ideas is not constrained by boundaries of culture, religion or politics and, in order to fully appreciate it, a more far-reaching approach is needed."-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
"In 771, a traveller arrived in the city [Baghdad] with a copy of a work of Hindu astronomy called the Siddhanta (The Opening of the Universe), by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668). Unlik…"-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
17. The Other End of the Line (Inspector Montalbano Mystery, #24)
By: Andrea Camilleri
4.06
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have be… read more
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18. Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Eliza… read more
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19. Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada
By: Elizabeth Drayson
3.59
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
'The true paradises are the paradises we have lost,' wrote Marcel Proust. This beautifully illustra… read more
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- medieval
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20. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
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21. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
