God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
By: Brent Nongbri
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism
By: None , Jacob Harold Greenlee
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
F. F. Bruce commented on the first edition, "I am glad to give it my warm commendation. As an intro… read more
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- religion
- theology
4. Philosophy Before Socrates: An Introduction with Texts and Commentary
By: Richard D. McKirahan
3.00
Format: 80 pages,
Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrateshas become the standar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, #2)
By: Dante Alighieri , Robert M. Durling
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine… read more
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7. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
8. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
By: Dan Simmons
3.77
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more
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9. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
10. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
3.90
Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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12. Light in August
By: William Faulkner
3.89
Format: 704 pages,
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more
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13. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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14. A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
By: George R.R. Martin
4.16
Format: 1060 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes. Bloodthirsty, treach… read more
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"Words are wind."-George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
"There is no shame in loving."-George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
"Some doors are best left closed."-George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
"Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?"-George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
15. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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- religion
- history
- theology
"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
16. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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17. Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
By: Howard Nemerov , Owen Barfield
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "po… read more
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18. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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19. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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20. The Enigma of Reason
By: Dan Sperber , Hugo Mercier
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is s… read more
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21. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
22. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
By: George R.R. Martin
4.54
Format: 1177 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here Here is the third volume in George R.R. Marti… read more
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"I am alive, and drunk on sunlight."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
"Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
"Half-truths are worth more than outright lies."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
"We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
23. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
24. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
25. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
26. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- religion
- history
27. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
By: Zena Hitz
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more
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- nonfiction
"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
28. God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
By: Brent Nongbri
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Chr… read more
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- theology
- new testament
- religion
- nonfiction
- archaeology
29. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
30. The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea
By: M. David Litwa
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblica… read more
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- religion
- history
31. Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist
By: James F. McGrath
4.32
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Meet the real John the Baptist. For many, John the Baptist is a footnote in the gospels—Jesus’… read more
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