6 Best history books like The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen

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The Real Beatrix Potter

By: Nadia Cohen

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherish…

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1. Circle of Friends

By: Maeve Binchy , None , None

4.07

Format: 722 pages, Paperback

Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends growing up in sleepy Kn… read more

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2. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

By: Linda Lear

4.06

Format: 584 pages, Hardcover

There is an alternate cover to 0141003103 Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Po… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"The part of the Lake District that Beatrix Potter chose as her own was not only physically beautiful, it was a place in which she felt emotionally rooted as a descendant of hard-working north-country…"

-Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

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3. Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter

By: Matthew Dennison

3.59

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchante… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. What She Left Behind

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In this stunning new novel, the acclaimed author of THE PLUM TREE merges the past and present into … read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Jane Austen at Home

By: Lucy Worsley

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Story of Beatrix Potter

By: Sarah Gristwood

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Historian Sarah Gristwood follows Potter from her constricted Victorian childhood to the success an… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Shades of Grey

By: Jasper Fforde

4.11

Format: 559 pages,

From the bestselling author of Thursday Next-- a brilliant new novel about a world where social ord… read more

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8. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By: Ben Montgomery

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

9. How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)

By: Cressida Cowell

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "t… read more

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10. Death Comes to Pemberley

By: None

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more

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11. Lust for Life

By: Irving Stone

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most o… read more

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12. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

13. Queen Lucia (Lucia, #1)

By: E.F. Benson

3.78

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Queen Lucia is the first book in the Mapp and Lucia series. Mrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, res… read more

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14. Katherine

By: Philippa Gregory , Anya Seton

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history--that of Ka… read more

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15. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)

By: Robert C. O'Brien

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarter… read more

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16. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Ann Jacobs

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more

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17. All Things Bright and Beautiful

By: James Herriot

4.00

Format: None pages,

"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --Associated Pre… read more

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18. Once Upon a Wardrobe

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncov… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
"The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

"Because even with the dark and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

"The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with r…"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

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19. The Girls with No Names

By: Serena Burdick

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Girls with No Names pulls readers into the gilded age of New York City in the 1910s, when suffr… read more

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  • audiobook
"Pakanka ir trupučio vilties, kad ji mus apakintų."

-Serena Burdick, The Girls with No Names

"We're all hurt and broken ... You're no different. You walk around with that sorry face, as if you're the only one's seen hardship. Have you tried looking at anyone else's face? Everyone in here's be…"

-Serena Burdick, The Girls with No Names

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20. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

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  • audiobook
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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21. How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

By: Sy Montgomery

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals-… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways."

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

"I am still learning how to be a good creature. Though I try earnestly, I often fail. But I am having a great life trying..."

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

"I often wish I could go back in time and tell my young, anxious self that my dreams weren't in vain and my sorrows weren't permanent. I can't do that, but I can do something better. I can tell you th…"

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

"Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas morning. When the angel met the shepherds in Bethlehem, the shepherds "were sore afraid.…"

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

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22. The Last Train to London

By: Meg Waite Clayton

4.13

Format: 480 pages, ebook

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World … read more

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  • audiobook
"The thinnest of silver linings on clouds banishing all light."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

"Most of us say what everyone else says, or we say nothing at all, so we won’t look like fools."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

"My father used to say courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather going forward in the face of it."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

"It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

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23. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.09

Format: 416 pages, ebook

“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woma… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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24. The Corset

By: Laura Purcell

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visit… read more

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  • audiobook
"Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

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25. The Magic Factory (Oliver Blue and the School for Seers, #1)

By: Morgan Rice

3.78

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian note: Older cover of B07KNFDMN6. THE MAGIC FACTORY: OLIVER BLUE AND THE SCHOOL FOR SEE… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart

26. A Boy Made of Blocks

By: Keith Stuart

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

A Boy Made of Blocks is a funny, heartwarming story of family and love inspired by the author's own… read more

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"Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it's about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands."

-Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

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27. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

By: Sy Montgomery

4.14

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Real Beatrix Potter

By: Nadia Cohen

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherish… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) by Richard Osman

29. 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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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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30. The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir

By: Sandie Docker

4.35

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Sisters Eleanor and Maggie have been running the Lyrebird Lake Ladies’ Choir for years. The choir m… read more

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3.65

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3.16

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