The Summer of the Great Secret
By: Monica Edwards
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tamzin and Rissa become entangled with the nefarious smuggling activities of the Westling fishermen…
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1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
2. Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons, #2)
By: Arthur Ransome
3.71
Format: 656 pages,
The second title in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, for grownups, for anyone captivat… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
3. Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)
By: Kate Atkinson
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Tracy, a retired police detective, rescues a small child; Jackson Brodie, a detective, rescues an a… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
4. Before I Met You
By: Lisa Jewell
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
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6. The Children of Charlecote
By: Philippa Pearce
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Tom, Laura, Hugh and Margaret's home is the great house, Charlecote, set in the Warwickshire countr… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
7. Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
By: Arthur Ransome
4.01
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
"But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforti…"-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
8. Winter Holiday (Swallows and Amazons, #4)
By: Arthur Ransome
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
The fourth book in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, Winter Holiday takes intrepid expl… read more
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9. Peggy of the Chalet School (The Chalet School, #22)
By: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Peggy Bettany is amazed to return to the Chalet School and find that she has been appointed Head Gi… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
10. The Box Of Delights
By: John Masefield
4.00
Format: 16 pages,
Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christma… read more
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11. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more
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12. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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13. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.82
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
14. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.01
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
15. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
16. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
17. Hamnet
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare'… read more
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- fiction
"He has, Anges sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live."-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
"And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is…"-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
"Ahora esa persona se ha perdido para siempre. Va a la deriva, no reconoce su propia vida. Está desamarrada, extraviada. Es una persona que llora si no encuentra un zapato, si cuece la sopa más de lo …"-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
"The sound that comes out of him is choked and smothered, like that of an animal forced to bears great weight. It is a noise of disbelief, of anguish. Anges will never forget it. At the end of her lif…"-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
18. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
19. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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20. The Skylarks’ War
By: Hilary McKay
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandpare… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"There were not rules, only consequences"-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War
"There were no rules, only consequences."-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War
"This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was."-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War
"Away from the front, where the supply lines ran, there were rest camps and first aid stations, and even patches of farmland. Often at that time of year you could hear skylarks over the fields. Soldie…"-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War
21. Last Night in Montreal
By: Emily St. John Mandel
3.73
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adol… read more
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- fiction
"She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it."-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
"It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room"-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
"His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them"-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
"What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight."-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
22. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
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- fiction
23. The Summer of the Great Secret
By: Monica Edwards
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tamzin and Rissa become entangled with the nefarious smuggling activities of the Westling fishermen… read more
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- mystery
- horses
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- fiction
24. The Abbey Girls Play Up
By: Elsie J. Oxenham
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Joy, Jen, and Maidlin help orphaned Cecily find a niche at the Abbey through Campfire Girls. read more
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- childrens
25. Sea Witch Comes Home
By: Malcolm Saville
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Why has Richard Channing disappeared in his boat Sea Witch, leaving his children Paul & Rose to fen… read more
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- fiction
26. Not Scarlet but Gold
By: Saville Malcolm
4.13
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
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- childrens
27. Man With Three Fingers
By: Malcolm Saville
3.76
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
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28. Mystery Mine (Lone Pine #12)
By: Malcolm Saville
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When David and Jon find a ladder leading down into Mr Sparrow's mine, and when a man whose voice th… read more
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29. Secret of the Gorge
By: Malcolm Saville
3.95
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Why so many people should want the ugly old sofa, Jenny couldn't imagine. Then Tom suggested they h… read more
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- fiction
30. Saucers Over the Moor
By: Malcolm Saville
3.73
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Jon drew in his breath sharply and pointed with a shaking hand.A strange object was rising in the n… read more
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