Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography
By: Matthew Dennison
3.38
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFrom one of our finest literary biographers comes a bri…
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1. Boy: Tales of Childhood
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankste… read more
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2. Babbitt
By: Sinclair Lewis
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more
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3. Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
4.06
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes an autobiographi… read more
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"The Greeks have a trick of disguising a poor quality wine by adding pine resin to it, the idea being that the taste of the resin is not quite so appalling as the taste of the wine. We drank retsina b…"-Roald Dahl, Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
"Mary Welland was certainly lovely. She was gentle and kind. She remained my friend all the time I was in hospital. But there is a world of difference falling in love with a voice and remaining in lov…"-Roald Dahl, Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
"You seem surprised to find us here,’ the man said. ‘I am,’ I said. ‘I wasn’t expecting to find anyone.’ ‘We are everywhere,’ the man said. ‘We are all over the country.’ ‘Forgive me,’ I said, ‘but I …"-Roald Dahl, Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
4. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- history
- biography
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- audiobook
5. The Eyes and the Impossible
By: Dave Eggers
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more
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- audiobook
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
6. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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8. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #4)
By: S.J. Bennett
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The royally brilliant fourth book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery series! 1957… read more
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10. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
By: Pete Wharmby
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
11. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
12. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. 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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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
By: Nathalia Holt
4.18
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
In The Queens of Animation, author Nathalia Holt recounts the stories of a group of women who have … read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
"Sadness transforms comedy, tingeing its edges with emotion and thus delivering fewer laughs but more real humor."-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
"It doesn't matter whether one's limbs are wooden or flesh; it is not out bodies that make us human but the way we treat one another."-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
16. Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow
By: Christina Henry
3.72
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben… read more
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17. Beastly Beauty
By: Jennifer Donnelly
3.69
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gend… read more
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"If you want to know a person, don't ask to hear their truth. Listen to their lies."-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty
"You must do one thing and one thing only--become the person you were meant to be. No matter how daunting that task may be. Otherwise, your life is not a life; it is merely a long, protracted death."-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty
18. Silent Waters
By: L.V. Matthews
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans of Gillian McAllister and Lisa Jewell comes a powerful and haunting novel about family, se… read more
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19. The Whistleblower
By: Robert Peston
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition
1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And jour… read more
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20. Conviction
By: Jack Jordan
4.01
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands accused of killing hi… read more
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21. A History of Women in 101 Objects
By: Annabelle Hirsch
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate obje… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Pans and other such objects are the very opposite of monuments. They don't commemorate revolutions or victories on the battlefield; don't allude to great contracts or those moments of upheaval that h…"-Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
22. Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons from the Only Conservative in the Room
By: Liz Truss
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Can the West Be Saved? Liz Truss, the former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, thinks t… read more
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- biography
23. A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël (Vintage Christmas Tales)
By: Hans Christian Andersen
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Ranging from Hans Christian Andersen to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a Nordic noel with the v… read more
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24. Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews
By: Sam McAlister
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking re… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. A Visible Man: A Memoir
By: Edward Enninful
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers. When Edwar… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. The Girl in the Photo
By: Sam Carrington
3.84
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
I stare at the little girl in the photo, her big eyes looking straight at me. ‘Please,’ the woman p… read more
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27. The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind (Wellcome Collection)
By: Martin Sixsmith
4.18
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times More than a… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Lighthouse at the World's End
By: Amy Sparkes
4.41
Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition
Adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny final book in the House at the Edge of Magic series.Nine… read more
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29. Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography
By: Matthew Dennison
3.38
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFrom one of our finest literary biographers comes a bri… read more
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30. The Funny Thing About Death
By: Jo Caulfield
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
'It's a wildly satisfying and moving read ... I loved this special book' – Graham Norton Six years… read more
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31. Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
4.03
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty o… read more
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- nonfiction
