Fringes: Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby
By: Ben Mercer
4.12
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.90
Format: 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. E… read more
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"You're Greek and I'm Armenian. Of course we need to raise our children to speak Portuguese."-Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
"You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more."-Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
"What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?"-Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
"It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness."-Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
2. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.15
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more
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"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
3. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
4. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
By: Tim Marshall
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more
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5. Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)
By: Ian Kershaw
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Re… read more
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6. Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?: Olympic-Winning Strategies for Everyday Success
By: Ben Hunt-Davis
2.96
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
This motivational and autobiographical book tells the story of an ordinary person in an ordinary te… read more
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7. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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8. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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9. Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Hitler, #2)
By: Ian Kershaw
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The New Yorkerdeclared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to defini… read more
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10. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
By: Richard J. Evans
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more
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11. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
12. Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender's Shadow, #2)
By: Orson Scott Card
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroy… read more
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13. Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
By: Matthew Syed
4.25
Format: None pages,
In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed re… read more
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14. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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15. The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The second installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic… read more
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16. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
By: Richard J. Evans
4.83
Format: 266 pages,
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more
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17. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
18. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
19. The Missing Page (Page & Sommers, #2)
By: Cat Sebastian
4.26
Format: 236 pages, ebook
England, 1948: Semi-retired spy Leo Page and country doctor James Sommers team up to solve a decade… read more
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"Leo had read this detective story and he had seen this film and knew that when you made the heirs gather together, they immediately started putting exotic poisons into one another's tea. They simply …"-Cat Sebastian, The Missing Page (Page & Sommers, #2)
20. Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1)
By: Cat Sebastian
3.97
Format: 232 pages, ebook
A jaded spy and a shell shocked country doctor team up to solve a murder in postwar England. Jam… read more
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21. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
By: Samantha Power
4.34
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rig… read more
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"The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some."-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
"Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community."-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
"The ugly political winds in the United States contrasted sharply with the earnest gravity of the occasion. Donald Trump had launched his campaign for president on a platform that blatantly stoked fea…"-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
22. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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23. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
24. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
25. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
26. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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27. Breaking History: A White House Memoir
By: Jared Kushner
4.12
Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY BESTSELLER … read more
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28. Churchill: Walking with Destiny
By: Andrew Roberts
4.36
Format: 1105 pages, Hardcover
A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from pr… read more
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29. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game
By: Roddy Collins
4.28
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more
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30. Notes on Heartbreak
By: Annie Lord
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more
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"Why suffer for something ordinary?"-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
31. Fringes: Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby
By: Ben Mercer
4.12
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
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