The Medici
By: Mary Hollingsworth
3.79
Format: 665 pages, ebook
Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional…
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1. Summer Crossing
By: Truman Capote
3.42
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Em 1966, Truman Capote, muito enriquecido graças à recente publicação de A Sangue-Frio, abandonou o… read more
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"Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way."-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
"If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?"-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
"He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone...."-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
"And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the music dimmed and the stars went dark."-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
2. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
By: Christopher Hibbert
3.88
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. A republ… read more
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- italy
- history
- nonfiction
- european history
3. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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- italy
- history
- nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
4. Anatomy of a Disappearance
By: Hisham Matar
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her st… read more
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"There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible."-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance
"I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth."-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance
"I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind..."-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance
"There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become a…"-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance
5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- italy
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- italy
- history
- nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
8. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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9. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
By: Paul Strathern
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, Th… read more
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10. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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11. Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
By: Robert Hughes
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, co… read more
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12. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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13. The Agricola and The Germania
By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly
3.94
Format: 229 pages,
The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more
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14. The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations
By: Oprah Winfrey
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Oprah Winfrey says Super Soul Sundayis the television show she was born to do. "I see it as an offe… read more
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15. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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16. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- european history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
17. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
18. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
By: Barry S. Strauss
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who foun… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- european history
19. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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- italy
- history
- nonfiction
20. Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
By: Clare Jackson
3.86
Format: 684 pages, Hardcover
This dazzling, original and hugely engaging book tells the story of a nation in a state of near con… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- european history
21. Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
By: Donald J. Robertson
4.33
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and ov… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- history
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23. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
By: James Poskett
3.79
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
“A radical retelling… Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
By: Joanne Paul
4.17
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more
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27. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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28. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back
By: Torsten Bell
4.37
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more
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29. Tudor England: A History
By: Lucy Wooding
4.17
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England … read more
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- nonfiction
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30. The Medici
By: Mary Hollingsworth
3.79
Format: 665 pages, ebook
Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional… read more
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