The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English
By: Jean Manco
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What do we really know of English ancestry? Combining results from cutting-edge DNA technology with…
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1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
By: Max Hastings
4.06
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more
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"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
2. Æthelstan: The Making of England
By: Tom Holland
4.03
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under sa… read more
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3. Spirits Abroad
By: Zen Cho
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more
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4. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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5. Arguably: Selected Essays
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguablyoffers an indispensable ke… read more
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6. Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee, #19)
By: Anne Hillerman
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Ti… read more
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7. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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8. Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
By: James Romm
3.33
Format: None pages,
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9. The Paper Bag Princess
By: Robert Munsch , Michael Martchenko
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnap… read more
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10. Thursbitch
By: Alan Garner
4.28
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
"HERE JOHN TURNER WAS CAST AWAY IN A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN THE NIGHT IN THE YEAR 1755" "THE PRINT OF … read more
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11. Baa Baa Black Sheep
By: Gregory Boyington
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black… read more
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12. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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13. Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof
By: Roger Clarke
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henr… read more
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14. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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15. The Good Shepherd
By: C.S. Forester
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The Good Shepherd has been adapted into a major motion picture, Greyhound, scripted by and starring… read more
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16. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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17. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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18. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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19. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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20. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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21. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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22. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more
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23. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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24. Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King
By: Richard P. Abels
3.59
Format: 137 pages, Hardcover
In his fascinating new book in the Penguin Monarchs series, Richard Abels examines the long and tro… read more
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25. Nemesis (Tom Wilde, #3)
By: Rory Clements
4.15
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
'A masterpiece of spies, intrigue and political shenanigans' Sunday ExpressCan a ruthless spy ring … read more
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26. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
By: Anderson Cooper
3.77
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more
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27. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more
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28. The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
By: Robin Ince
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimid… read more
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"I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read…"-Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
29. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
By: Hana Videen
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more
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"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
30. The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English
By: Jean Manco
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What do we really know of English ancestry? Combining results from cutting-edge DNA technology with… read more
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31. Daughter of Fire
By: Sofia Robleda
3.97
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people’s legacy is… read more
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