Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us about Life
By: Jonathan Kay
3.63
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Board games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, the…
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1. Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)
By: Timothy Zahn
4.31
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral … read more
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- adult
"I did not refer to the legends themselves,"-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)
"Repression and revolt feed and devour each other."-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)
"Still, even when false, legends can be most informative."-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)
"One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others."-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)
2. It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
By: Tristan Donovan
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime … read more
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- games
- adult
- nonfiction
- psychology
3. Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
By: Phil Collins
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Phil Collins pulls no punches--about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspir… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
By: Lol Tolhurst
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover
"On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mo… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
6. Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureat… read more
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7. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
By: Emma Donoghue
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales… read more
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8. Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
By: Bill Bryson
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neit… read more
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- nonfiction
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- nonfiction
- education
10. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
By: Caitlin Alifirenka , Martin Ganda , Liz Welch
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from an impoverished city in Zimbabwe and the lett… read more
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- nonfiction
11. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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12. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more
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13. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
By: Charles Wheelan
3.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, … read more
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14. Helpmeet
By: Naben Ruthnum
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more
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- adult
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet
15. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
16. Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.16
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but… read more
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- adult
"There are few things in life as steadying as someone you have to be brave for."-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
"Are you sure you wouldn't like some nice murderers instead?" he asked plaintively. "Quite sure, thanks"-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
"If I'd given him too much, he'd know something was afoot. Too much money is as dangerous as too little; it means you want it too bad."-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
17. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- psychology
- education
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
18. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
19. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
20. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
By: Ali Abdaal
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
21. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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- adult
"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
22. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- adult
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
23. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
24. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
25. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
By: William H. McRaven
4.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
26. The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.22
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin.… read more
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- adult
"It could,"-T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)
27. Eternal Life
By: Dara Horn
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business,… read more
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- adult
"That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we do…"-Dara Horn, Eternal Life
"She didn’t know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from…"-Dara Horn, Eternal Life
28. The Shamshine Blind
By: Paz Pardo
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon an… read more
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29. Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars Novelizations, #3.1)
By: Mur Lafferty
3.89
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
This thrilling adaptation of A Star Wars Story expands on the film to include scenes from alternat… read more
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30. Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us about Life
By: Jonathan Kay
3.63
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Board games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, the… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- games
- adult
- education
- sociology
- science
31. Living the Vanlife: On the Road Toward Sustainability, Community, and Joy
By: Noami Grevemberg
3.66
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Discover what it’s really like to live and work full-time on the road in a camper van from eco-vanl… read more
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