Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines
By: Jean Menzies
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun a…
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1. Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
By: Timothy Zahn
4.18
Format: 439 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord—Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the … read more
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"Yes, they’d lost. But it was just a battle, not the war."-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
"I rule the Empire now. Not some long-dead Emperor; certainly not you. the only treason is defiance of my orders."-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
"One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings"-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
"The maitrakh met her gaze steadily, her alien face unreadable. 'Are you offering me your help?' Leia asked. 'There is honor in you, Lady Vader,' the maitrakh said, her voice quiet. 'For the life and …"-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
2. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
3. Tales of the Greek Heroes: Retold From the Ancient Authors
By: Roger Lancelyn Green , Alan Langford
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book presents the great stories of the heroic age - "Dionysus", "Heracles", "Theseus", "The Qu… read more
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- greek mythology
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4. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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5. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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6. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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7. Chicken with Plums
By: Marjane Satrapi
3.95
Format: 161 pages,
In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new… read more
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8. Night and Day
By: Virginia Woolf , Julia Briggs
3.76
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between… read more
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"She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ..."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?"-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"It seemed a mere toss-up whether she said, ‘I love you,’ or whether she said, ‘I love the beech-trees,’ or only ‘I love—I love."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
9. Trial by Fire (Stargate SG-1, #1)
By: Sabine C. Bauer
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
A pious people, the Tyreans are devoted to the Canaanite deity, Meleq. When their spiritual leader … read more
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10. The Beautifull Cassandra
By: Jane Austen
3.62
Format: 320 pages,
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more
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11. The Fall of Icarus
By: Ovid , Mary M. Innes
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .' Enduring m… read more
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12. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
13. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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14. The Essential Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson
0.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES Between them, our great visionary poets of the America… read more
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15. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
16. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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17. Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
By: Zoraida Córdova
3.55
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Eleven diverse vampire stories from YA's leading voices, including V.E. Schwab's "First Kill," soon… read more
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18. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
19. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
20. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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21. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
22. House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)
By: Claire North
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
House of Odysseus is the follow up to award-winning author Claire North's Ithaca "a powerful, fresh… read more
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23. The Housekeepers
By: Alex Hay
3.34
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
On the night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women launches a daring revenge heist again… read more
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24. The Mirror Man (Joona Linna, #8)
By: Lars Kepler
4.14
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 15 MILLION COPIES OF THE SERIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The eighth gripping thr… read more
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25. Father
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.06
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more
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"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
26. Hersenen willen lezen
By: Erik Scherder
3.13
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Erik Scherder leest. Veel. En hij zou nog veel meer willen lezen. En ook eens iets anders dan weten… read more
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27. Meeting Lister (I Was Born for This, #0.5)
By: Alice Oseman
4.39
Format: None pages, None
Meeting Lister was a serialised, illustrated short story [Alice] wrote and shared for fun with read… read more
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28. Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines
By: Jean Menzies
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun a… read more
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- greek mythology
- nonfiction
- mythology
29. Fangirl, Vol. 4: The Manga
By: Rainbow Rowell
4.57
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The heartwarming final volume in the manga adaptation of the beloved novel by Rainbow Rowell! Cath… read more
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30. Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
By: Edith Hall
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused… read more
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