5 Best biography books like Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder by Bruce Lincoln

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Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder

By: Bruce Lincoln

3.71

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect …

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1. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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2. Dear Committee Members

By: Julie Schumacher

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more

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3. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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5. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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6. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Simon

By: Narine Abgaryan

4.50

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Un secol de istorie armeană, văzut prin prisma femeilor dintr-un orășel de munte, se desfășoară în … read more

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"Širdis gyva tol, kol nepraanda gebėjimo verkti."

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

"Sėkmei reikia tik dviejų dalykų: atkaklumo ir meilės darbui, kurį dirbi."

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

"{...} tuturor, absolut tuturor ne e dat să plătim un preț pe măsura faptelor noastre."

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

"Եվ մի տեսակ շատ ինքնահավան է, ասես ջրափոսի միջի բենզինի հետք լինի՝ գեղեցիկ և անիմաստ։"

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

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8. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • crime
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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10. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

By: Catherine Nixey

4.06

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

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11. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

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12. A Dreadful Splendor

By: B.R. Myers

3.87

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

In this spectacularly imaginative and ghoulishly fun Gothic murder mystery brimming with romance, b… read more

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"Кожен дім має свої таємниці."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

"Те, що люди не бачать очима, вони відчувають серцем. Серце бачить все."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

"Можна багато чого дізнатися про мертвих, спостерігаючи за проявами скорботи їхніх рідних."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

"Привиди не можуть завдати вам шкоди. Слід боятися живих людей, тих, що стоять по цей бік скла."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

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13. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

By: Theresa Runstedtler

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Agains… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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15. De-a dacii și romanii: o introducere în istoria limbii și etnogenezei românilor

By: Dan Alexe

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

„Explicația că latinofonii – proto-românii – se retrăgeau în munți vreme de secole în timpul «invaz… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Franciscan Lectio: Reading the World Through the Living Word (San Damiano Books)

By: Dan Riley OFM

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Franciscan Lectio is for Christians who long to see the world more beautifully and deeply and becom… read more

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17. Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder

By: Bruce Lincoln

3.71

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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18. In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility

By: Costică Brădățan

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure … read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith

By: Stephen C Taysom

4.50

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his f… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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20. The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them

By: Stefan Bachmann

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world’s most fascinating a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

11 Top history books like Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder by Bruce Lincoln

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

None , Larry Heinemann , Julia Whitby , Robin Whitby , Svetlana Alexievich

4.30

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Catherine Nixey

4.06

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De-a dacii și romanii: o introducere în istoria limbii și etnogenezei românilor

Dan Alexe

4.08

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