The Great War at Sea: 1914 - 1918
By: Richard Hough
3.94
Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition
The history of the First World War is dominated by the monumental battles of Northern FranceBut the…
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1. Halo: The Fall of Reach
By: Eric S. Nylund
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, th… read more
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- military fiction
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"4 of us, and 2000 of them. Piss-poor odds. For them."-Eric S. Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach
2. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This… read more
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"Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
3. In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
By: Tim Judah
4.11
Format: None pages,
From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch fro… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
By: Lucy Moore
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the bright… read more
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5. Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
By: Aaron J. Klein
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich … read more
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6. The Man Who Fell to Earth
By: Walter Tevis
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more
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7. The Fourth Monkey (A 4MK Thriller, #1)
By: J.D. Barker
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated thriller of the year - Optioned for both film and television Se7enmeets The Si… read more
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8. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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10. The Key to Rebecca
By: Ken Follett
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Ken Follett's The Key to Rebeccatook readers and critics by storm when first published more than fi… read more
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11. The Mauritius Command
By: Patrick O'Brian
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
"O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should ha… read more
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12. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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13. Dreadnought
By: Robert K. Massie
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more
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14. Castles of Steel
By: Robert K. Massie
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At … read more
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15. 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)
16. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
17. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
18. The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
By: Michael Connelly
4.21
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it… read more
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" There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962."-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him …"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for li…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system’s checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizatio…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
19. World War II at Sea: A Global History
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.58
Format: 770 pages, Hardcover
Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book o… read more
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- nonfiction
"the battlecruiser HMS Hood, which at 860 feet was the pride of the fleet. While her eight 15-inch guns were the largest then afloat, her Achilles’ heel was her relatively thin armor, which made her m…"-Craig L. Symonds, World War II at Sea: A Global History
20. The Great War at Sea: 1914 - 1918
By: Richard Hough
3.94
Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition
The history of the First World War is dominated by the monumental battles of Northern FranceBut the… read more
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21. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
