Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet
By: Laura Jacobs
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we …
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1. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
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2. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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3. Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
By: Jennifer Homans
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year For more than four hundred years,… read more
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4. The Singer's Gun
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career… read more
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5. Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
By: None
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our… read more
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6. The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood & Co., #4)
By: Jonathan Stroud
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Hardcover
After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy,Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring her… read more
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7. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)
By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more
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8. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
9. An Oresteia
By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Hardcover
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10. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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11. Practical Magic
By: Alice Hoffman
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York T… read more
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12. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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13. Beware the Woman
By: Megan Abbott
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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14. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
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"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
15. Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
By: Matt Taibbi
4.11
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that… read more
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"More often, when explosive #Russiagate headlines go sideways, the original outlets simply ignore the new development, leaving the “retraction"-Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
"In my experience conservatives hate reporters mainly because they see us as phonies. We reject the idea that we belong to a class, or that we have our own tribal beliefs. Sometimes the hypocrisy is s…"-Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
16. The Ballerinas
By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a… read more
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"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
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"Sometimes... I think the real tragedy of life is that we're always the people we were, and it's only our outsides that change."-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
17. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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18. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
By: Egill Bjarnason
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more
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19. The World's Worst Assistant
By: Sona Movsesian
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Conan O’Brien’s longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a … read more
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"Mein Assistent findet das Streben nach dem göttlichen griechischen Staat Arete „lahm“ und sollte „einen Schwanz essen“. - Conan O'Brien"-Sona Movsesian, The World's Worst Assistant
20. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
By: Eleanor Janega
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more
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21. Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet
By: Laura Jacobs
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we … read more
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