The Voyage of the Armada: The Spanish Story
By: David Howarth
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'Mr Howarth is a brilliant writer, full of grace and wit and solid common sense' - The New Yorker A…
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1. The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
By: Tim Severin , Trondur Pattursson
4.25
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew from Dingle, Ireland across the North… read more
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2. Everyman
By: Anonymous , Unknown
3.27
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more
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3. Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
By: David V. Hicks
4.57
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education… read more
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"A college president I know keeps three books on his night table: the Bible, the Iliad, and Louis Auchincloss' 1964 novel The Rector of Justin. When I once asked him, "Why the novel?," he responded, "…"-David V. Hicks, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
"When our forebears asked - What is a man? - they did not expect a detailed examination of some Saturday morning shopper, Mr. John Q. Public, snatched at random from the crowded agora and forced under…"-David V. Hicks, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
4. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
By: Jeanne Birdsall
4.19
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Penderwick sisters busily discover the summertime magic of Arundel estate’s sprawling gardens, … read more
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"The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!"-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
5. A Lantern in Her Hand
By: Bess Streeter Aldrich
4.18
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 45 minutes Part of: Bison Book (4 titles) Perfect for fans of … read more
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"You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've …"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
"What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working…"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
"Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight mus…"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
"Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college te…"-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
6. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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7. Tartuffe
By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more
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8. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more
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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
9. Whatever Happened to Justice? Revised Edition
By: Richard J. Maybury , Jane A. Williams
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Whatever Happened to Justice? explains the Legal Model and explores America s legal heritage. This … read more
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10. The Betrothed
By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman
3.85
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more
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- historical
"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
11. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.17
Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more
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- historical
"How do you do?"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
12. The Last Days of the Incas
By: Kim MacQuarrie
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more
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- nonfiction
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13. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
14. Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
By: Penny Le Couteur , Jay Burreson
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, … read more
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15. Bulfinch's Mythology
By: Thomas Bulfinch
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of… read more
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16. Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough
By: N.C. Wyeth , Charles Kingsley
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant … read more
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17. The New World (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #2)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Unknown Binding
Sir Winston Churchill's classic History of the English-Speaking Peoples; with an introduction by An… read more
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18. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
By: Candice Millard
4.24
Format: None pages,
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more
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19. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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21. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.24
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more
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"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
22. A Man for All Seasons
By: Robert Bolt
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was execu… read more
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23. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
24. The Lost City of the Monkey God
By: Douglas Preston
3.93
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more
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25. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated
By: H.E. Marshall
4.67
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
For many years, boys and girls have read “This Country of Ours” and its stories of the Americans. N… read more
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- nonfiction
- school
26. Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
By: Elizabeth Peters
4.00
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her debut Egyptian advent… read more
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- historical
"God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,"-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
"...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes."-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
"I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had be…"-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to me…"-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
27. The Penderwicks at Last (The Penderwicks, #5)
By: Jeanne Birdsall
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Nine years, five older siblings, a few beloved dogs, and an endless array of adventures--these are … read more
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"Ready, Lydia?" Jack asked, "Can you run?" Could she? A bobolink warbled the answer. "Yes," said Lydia, all hope and exhilaration. "Yes, I can." And away they went. the three together, prancing, leapi…"-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks at Last (The Penderwicks, #5)
28. Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages (Yesterday's Classics)
By: George Hodges
3.98
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
An excellent introduction to the history of the church through portraits of twenty of the most impo… read more
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29. Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith and Science
By: John Hudson Tiner
4.07
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
This giant of astronomy considered his studies to be a way of looking into God's creation. read more
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30. The Voyage of the Armada: The Spanish Story
By: David Howarth
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'Mr Howarth is a brilliant writer, full of grace and wit and solid common sense' - The New Yorker A… read more
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- world history
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- spain
- military fiction
- military history
- spanish history
- nonfiction
31. Christopher Columbus, Mariner
By: Samuel Eliot Morison
3.65
Format: 160 pages, paper
Kirkus Review Back in 1942 Admiral of the Ocean Sea was published, a definitive biography of Columb… read more
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