Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
By: Michiko Iwasaka
3.73
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In t…
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1. The Merry Wives of Windsor
By: William Shakespeare
3.55
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"I assure thee: setting the attractions of my good parts aside I have no other charms."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
2. The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
3. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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4. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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5. The Winter People
By: Jennifer McMahon
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Promise Not to Tellreturns with a simmering literary thrill… read more
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6. Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
By: Pat Shipman
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than… read more
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7. African Psycho
By: Alain Mabanckou , None
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis's infamous book, but while Ellis's narrator was a blank slate, … read more
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8. 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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9. Nothing But Blackened Teeth
By: Cassandra Khaw
2.66
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more
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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
10. A Child Alone With Strangers
By: Philip Fracassi
4.28
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more
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11. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
12. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
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13. Renaissance: The Transformation of the West
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4.03
Format: 27 pages, Audible Audio
26 hours and 35 minutes While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of th… read more
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14. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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15. Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther
By: Craig Pittman
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very … read more
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16. The Tudors. Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
By: Elizabeth Cleland
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs brought changes to England that… read more
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17. Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
By: Donna M. Lucey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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18. Seeking Chicago: The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City-One Building at a Time
By: Tom Miller
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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19. The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
By: Peter B Dedek
4.24
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
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20. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
By: Michiko Iwasaka
3.73
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
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21. Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present
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3.27
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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