North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
By: Michael Blanding
3.95
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of …
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1. Island
By: Aldous Huxley
3.85
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal … read more
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- literature
- british literature
"I fell,"-Aldous Huxley, Island
"I’m not denying their kindness,"-Aldous Huxley, Island
"A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms."-Aldous Huxley, Island
"La teología de un pueblo refleja el estado de las nalgas de sus niños."-Aldous Huxley, Island
2. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
3. The Guermantes Way
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne
4.27
Format: 619 pages, Paperback
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more
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- literature
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش میآید، چون تخیل با توست"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک میشناسد"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
4. Pericles
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Folger Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includ… read more
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- literature
5. The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down i… read more
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6. The Story of Kullervo
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Verlyn Flieger
4.04
Format: 176 pages, ebook
The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells … read more
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7. Invitation to a Beheading
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more
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8. The Fall of Arthur
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
The Fall of Arthurrecounts in verse the last campaign of King Arthur, who, even as he stands at the… read more
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9. My Name Is Asher Lev
By: Chaim Potok
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more
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10. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
11. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
By: Kyle Buchanan
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
12. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
13. Meet the Benedettos
By: Katie Cotugno
3.25
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Kardashians meets Pride and Prejudice in this charming comical follow-up to Birds of California… read more
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- adult
14. A Chateau Under Siege
By: Martin Walker
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more
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15. Do You Remember Being Born?
By: Sean Michaels
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more
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"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
16. France: An Adventure History
By: Graham Robb
3.44
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the … read more
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17. Stalking Shakespeare
By: Lee Durkee
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless… read more
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- biography
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- historical
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18. Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
By: Elizabeth Lesser
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? … read more
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- history
"When it no longer would destroy a boy to be likened to a girl, when a girl feels vital doing the things she values, when it's considered as brave to be womanly as it is to be manly, than boys and gir…"-Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
"The basic belief of feminism is not that women are right and men are wrong; It is merely that women are people and therefor their voices matter, their values matter and their stories matter. It's tim…"-Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
"That's why we tell the stories. To ease the anxiety of being soft-skinned mortals. To inspire the soul to fathom eternity. To give order to what feels out of control. To guide, to blame, to warn, to …"-Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
"What if our myths and teaching tales had purposely led humanity to believe that it was the ultimate sign of strength to nurture and love? What if the urge to care for children and nature and each oth…"-Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
19. Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
By: Chris Laoutaris
3.84
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
By: Robin R. Means Coleman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising succ… read more
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- adult
- history
21. North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
By: Michael Blanding
3.95
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of … read more
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- literature
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