Victorian Fashion (Shire Library)
By: Jayne Shrimpton
3.59
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets, and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispens…
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1. Edwardian Fashion (Shire Library)
By: Daniel Milford-Cottam
3.96
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The fashions of the Edwardian period underwent some quite revolutionary changes. The delicately col… read more
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- fashion
- nonfiction
- history
2. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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4. The Prince and the Pauper
By: Mark Twain , None , Everett Emerson
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-cen… read more
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"Loose and forbear!"-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
5. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
6. Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
By: Kathryn Hughes
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
'A work of formidable scholarship that propels the reader from idea to idea. Reading it is like unr… read more
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7. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more
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8. How to Be a Victorian
By: Ruth Goodman
3.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Step into the skin of your ancestors . . . We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but … read more
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9. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
10. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1
By: Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Half-demon Luo Binghe rose from humble beginnings and a tortured past to become unrivaled in streng… read more
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"Dumfuck Author, Dumbfuck Novel!"-Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1
"Dumbfuck author, dumbfuck novel!"-Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1
"The more they felt, the greater the damage they received."-Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1
"Shen QingQiu lo fissò, e disse, “Vuoi diventare forte? Abbastanza forte da non avere pari, al punto che nessuno sotto questi cieli possa gareggiare con te?"-Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1
11. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
12. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
13. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
14. The Mad Women's Ball
By: Victoria Mas
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A literary historical novel detailing the horrors faced by institutionalized women in 19th century … read more
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""-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball
"As long as men have pricks, all the evil in this world will go on existing."-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball
"Lekarz zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż pacjent, a mężczyzna zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż kobieta."-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball
"Although madness in men is not the same as that in women: men use it against others; women turn it in on themselves."-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball
15. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. The Girl from the Sea
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first lov… read more
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"Sometimes plans must change, my love."-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"*creepy ghost whispers* morgan... THAT'S IT SHE'S DEAD"-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts"-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
17. A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
By: Freya Marske
3.96
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes… read more
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" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
"You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you t…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
18. Victorian Fashion (Shire Library)
By: Jayne Shrimpton
3.59
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets, and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispens… read more
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19. Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
By: Judith Flanders
4.21
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
In Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, a… read more
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20. The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in Folklore, Superstition and Traditional Medicine
By: Sandra Lawrence
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Explore the wonderful world of some of the most incredible natural forms on our planet — fungi. … read more
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