Epic Drives of the World
By: Lonely Planet
4.03
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Buckle up for the next installment in our 'Epic' series and the follow-up to Epic Bike Rides of the…
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1. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
2. The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories
By: None , P.D. James
3.75
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunni… read more
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"Dalgliesh told himself that he should have remembered what, as a small boy, he had discovered about Uncle Hubert's conscience--that it operated as a warning bell and that, unlike most people, Uncle H…"-None, The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories
"Although most of my own work has been as a novelist, I have greatly enjoyed the challenge of the short story. Much has to be achieved with limited means. There is not spacefor long and detailed descr…"-None, The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories
3. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- nonfiction
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
4. The Wind's Twelve Quarters
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.06
Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Wizardry, transforming its master into a cloud of fine mist...cloning, duplicating the ideal man te… read more
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"El ocio es un estado natural y bendito"."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"Of course I didn't read James and sit down and say, Now I'll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
5. My Name is Red
By: Orhan Pamuk , Erdağ M. Göknar
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the powe… read more
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6. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
By: Lierre Keith
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes th… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Twelve Clues of Christmas (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #6)
By: Rhys Bowen
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me--well, actually, my true love, Darcy O'Mara,… read more
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8. Destinations of a Lifetime: 225 of the World's Most Amazing Places
By: National Geographic Society
3.98
Format: 296 pages,
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9. Death of a Travelling Man (Hamish Macbeth, #9)
By: M.C. Beaton
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth finds Sean Gourlay too handsome. The agent of evil pretends to be gypsy tra… read more
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10. American War
By: Omar El Akkad
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one f… read more
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11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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12. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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13. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
By: Tom Hanks
3.70
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-st… read more
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"Are you a clairvoyant?"-Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
14. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adventure
15. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- nonfiction
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
16. The Summer Skies
By: Jenny Colgan
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan takes us to the gloriously windswept islands of nor… read more
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17. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)
By: Val McDermid
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more
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18. My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
By: Meik Wiking
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge, helps you turn your home into… read more
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19. So Shall You Reap
By: Donna Leon
4.07
Format: 262 pages, ebook
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more
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"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap
"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap
20. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
By: Anthony Bourdain
3.64
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, televisi… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
"You know, I'll tell you honestly: if you like food and you haven't come here to eat, you're really missing the fucking boat. This is world-class food; this is world-class wine; this is world-class ch…"-Anthony Bourdain, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
21. Dinner in One: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals: A Cookbook
By: Melissa Clark
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
100 all-new super-simple and incredibly delicious one-pot, one-pan, one-sheet--one-everything!--rec… read more
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- reference
22. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
23. The Fortunes of Jaded Women
By: Carolyn Huynh
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with… read more
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24. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
By: Anthony Bourdain
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restau… read more
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- nonfiction
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
"There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub."-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction …"-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
25. Once Upon a Book
By: Grace Lin
4.21
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From Caldecott and Newbery Honoree Grace Lin and bestselling author Kate Messner comes a modern fol… read more
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26. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
By: John E. Douglas
4.15
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more
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"I miss my dog,"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
27. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- nonfiction
- adventure
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
28. Feels Like Home: Relaxed Interiors for a Meaningful Life
By: Lauren Liess
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The third design book from Lauren Liess, the TV and social media star and author of Habitat and Dow… read more
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29. Lonely Planet Epic Hikes of the World
By: Alex Crevar
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
With stories of 50 incredible hiking routes in 30 countries, from New Zealand to Peru, plus a furth… read more
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- adventure
- nonfiction
- reference
30. Epic Drives of the World
By: Lonely Planet
4.03
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Buckle up for the next installment in our 'Epic' series and the follow-up to Epic Bike Rides of the… read more
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31. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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