Galileo and the Solar System
By: Paul Strathern
3.57
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...Galileo is often referred to as…
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1. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more
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"Perhaps thought really is prayer."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
2. Mother Night
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.23
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more
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"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
3. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
By: Kate Clifford Larson
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history--a fearless visionary who led scores of her… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
By: Dai Sijie , Ina Rilke
3.84
Format: 208 pages,
In this enchanting tale about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening, two haples… read more
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6. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
By: Ian Morgan Cron , Suzanne Stabile
4.21
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness... What you don't know about yourself can hurt you a… read more
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- nonfiction
"The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier."-Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
7. Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
By: Adam M. Grant
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and lead… read more
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- nonfiction
8. A Long Way Home
By: Saroo Brierley
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
9. Der Fall Collini
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Vierunddreissig Jahre hat der Italiener Fabrizio Collini als Werkzeugmacher bei Mercedes-Benz gearb… read more
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10. Marx in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character.… read more
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11. The Bridges of Madison County
By: Robert James Waller
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of … read more
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12. The Silent Companions
By: Laura Purcell
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more
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13. Taxi Driver
By: Paul Schrader
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an esc… read more
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14. A Short History of the World
By: Geoffrey Blainey
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A superb history of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the hum… read more
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15. 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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- nonfiction
"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
16. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
- physics
17. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
18. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
4.32
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more
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19. The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
By: Chris Wimmer
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narrati… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
By: Daniel Barbarisi
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A full-throttle, first-person account of the treasure hunt created by eccentric millionaire art dea… read more
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- biography
21. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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- biography
22. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By: Walter Isaacson
4.29
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more
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- biography
"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
23. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin
By: Steve Martin
3.83
Format: 3 pages, Audiobook
Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life in this engrossing audio-bi… read more
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- biography
24. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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25. Creativity Code
By: Marcus du Sautoy
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machi… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Watergate Girl
By: Jill Wine-Banks
4.09
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine… read more
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27. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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28. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
By: Fergus M. Bordewich
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more
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- biography
29. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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30. Intelligenza emotiva - Imparare a gestire le emozioni
By: Pablo Fernandez-Berrocal
3.58
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Per sopravvivere in modo sano nella società di oggi, abbiamo bisogno di una rivoluzione emotiva, un… read more
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31. Galileo and the Solar System
By: Paul Strathern
3.57
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...Galileo is often referred to as… read more
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