Letters of Note: Music
By: Shaun Usher
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to John Lennon Prince and Kim Gordon, tune in to the evocative expre…
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1. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more
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"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
2. The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
By: Mark Forsyth
4.36
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The idiosyncratic, erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of … read more
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"I’ve been too fucking busy, and vice versa."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. It was about a “green great dragon."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
3. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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4. The Golden Notebook
By: Doris Lessing
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a… read more
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5. The Chimes
By: Charles Dickens
3.54
Format: 230 pages,
"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Vec… read more
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6. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
By: Anne Lamott
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to co… read more
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7. A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum
4.23
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddingt… read more
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"I'm not a criminal,"-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
"[Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair."-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
8. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- history
9. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
By: Helene Hanff
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more
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10. The Testament of Mary
By: Colm Tóibín
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary old… read more
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11. The Capture (Animorphs, #6)
By: Katherine Applegate
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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12. The Great Winglebury Duel
By: Charles Dickens
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Desperate-minded villain!' Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Grea… read more
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13. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By: Tennessee Williams
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more
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"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
14. The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinfold
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold remains one of Eveyln Waugh's most remarkable and self-revealing work… read more
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15. A Realm Divided: England in 1215
By: Dan Jones
3.93
Format: 300 pages,
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more
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16. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- history
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
17. History of the Rain
By: Niall Williams
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling… read more
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19. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
20. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
By: Ian Mortimer
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more
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21. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- history
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
22. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
23. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- adult
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
24. The Best American Short Stories 2023
By: Min Jin Lee
3.77
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more
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25. A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
By: Simon Jenkins
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselli… read more
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26. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- history
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
27. I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us
By: Andie Powers
4.16
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Emile is not shy—he is quiet. Emile may seem timid and shy on the outside, but on the inside … read more
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"Strength can be quiet. Answers can be quiet. Friendship can be quiet."-Andie Powers, I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us
"l am quiet on the outside, but not on the inside. On the inside, my imagination shouts loudly and runs wild."-Andie Powers, I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us
"My mother says that "if you hold a shell close to your ear and are very quiet, you can hear the entire ocean sing."-Andie Powers, I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us
28. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
29. She Must Be Mad
By: Charly Cox
3.58
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
‘Poetry meets mental health in Charly Cox’s brave and beautiful She Must Be Mad.’ Stylist Magazine … read more
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"You are not a girl nor a woman, you are an unwanted potato in a packet, left to half-freeze to close to the back of the fridge."-Charly Cox, She Must Be Mad
30. Four Seasons in Japan
By: Nick Bradley
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more
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"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
31. Letters of Note: Music
By: Shaun Usher
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to John Lennon Prince and Kim Gordon, tune in to the evocative expre… read more
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