Winslow Homer: American Passage
By: William R. Cross
4.13
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, …
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1. The Childhood of Jesus
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and… read more
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"We partake of the ideal but we also make poo."-J.M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus
"Un bambino ha bisogno del grembo materno per venire al mondo. Una volta che ha lasciato il grembo, la madre come datrice di vita è una forza esaurita, come il padre. Da quel momento in poi il bambino…"-J.M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus
"Why?' says the boy. 'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.' 'Why is staying alive more important than anything?' He is about to answer, about to produce the correct, patien…"-J.M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus
2. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
3. The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have nev… read more
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4. The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
By: Denise Kiernan
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller "A soaring and gorgeous American story" (Karen Abbott) from the author of … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
5. Dark Lies the Island
By: Kevin Barry
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new book from the winner of the 2012 Sunday TimesEFG Private Bank Short Story Prize. A kiss that … read more
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6. The Optimist's Daughter
By: Eudora Welty
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South a… read more
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7. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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8. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
By: Sue Roe
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more
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9. Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
By: Deborah Davis
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
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10. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
11. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
12. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
13. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- art
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
14. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
15. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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16. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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17. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
18. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
19. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
20. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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22. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
By: Sam Wasson
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
23. The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
By: James Gardner
3.88
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incompa… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
24. The Lioness of Boston
By: Emily Franklin
3.72
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an… read more
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- art
"Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth."-Emily Franklin, The Lioness of Boston
25. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
By: Stephen Breyer
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
26. Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
By: Richard Lacayo
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by p… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
27. The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
By: Sonali Dev
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Emma gets a fresh Indian-American twist from award-winning author Sonali Dev in her heartwarmingly … read more
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"Are you saying you want me to be more than an inflatable doll?" She pressed into him. "I mean there are parts of you that are alarmingly easy to inflate."-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
"It's stunning how little respect you have for me, Naina." What more did he have to do to prove himself? She kept typing. "What am I supposed to respect exactly?"-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
"You know you can't do this without me," Jiggy said on the phone, after. "We'll figure it out. We rich kids do take our need to run around and save the world seriously."-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
"Delicious, Auntie! How do you make cucumber taste like this?" Paper-thin slices of cucumber, delicately spiced Greek yogurt spread, and pillowy whole-grain bread. This was the life."-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
28. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: Natalie Dykstra
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. Winslow Homer: American Passage
By: William R. Cross
4.13
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, … read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
30. Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved
By: Steven Naifeh
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing him… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
31. Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
By: William E. Wallace
4.11
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades--and his transformation into one of the greatest a… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
