5 Best nonfiction books like Cats in Medieval Manuscripts (British Library Medieval Guides) by Kathleen Walker-Meikle

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Cats in Medieval Manuscripts (British Library Medieval Guides)

By: Kathleen Walker-Meikle

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail…

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1. George's Marvellous Medicine

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered… read more

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2. Gooseberries and other stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

Format: None pages, ebook

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more

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"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

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3. Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

3.52

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more

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"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

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4. The Far Side Gallery

By: Gary Larson

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

1984 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered tradem… read more

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5. The Other Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #16)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two women competing for a man's heart. Two queens fighting to the death for dominance. The untold s… read more

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6. Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since… read more

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7. Medieval Monsters

By: Damien Kempf , Maria L. Gilbert

3.74

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

From satyrs and sea creatures to griffins and dragons, monsters lay at the heart of the medieval wo… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval

8. Clockwork

By: Philip Pullman , Leonid Gore

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fritz, the writer, spins a spine-tingling tale to cheer up Karl, the apprentice clockmaker. But rat… read more

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9. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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10. American Vampire, Vol. 1

By: Stephen King , Scott Snyder , Rafael Albuquerque

4.00

Format: None pages,

From writers Scott Snyder and Stephen King, American Vampireintroduces a new strain of vampire - a … read more

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11. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity

By: Ryan Holiday , Stephen Hanselman

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is … read more

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12. The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

"I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known..… read more

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13. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more

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14. Eligible (The Austen Project, #4)

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

5.00

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is… read more

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15. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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16. The Secret History of Christmas

By: Bill Bryson

3.84

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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18. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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19. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

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"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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20. Cats in Medieval Manuscripts (British Library Medieval Guides)

By: Kathleen Walker-Meikle

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • medieval history
  • cats
  • nonfiction
  • medieval

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