The Emergence of the English (Past Imperfect)
By: Susan Oosthuizen
4.11
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
This book takes a critical approach to the assumption that the origins of the English can be found …
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1. A History of Japan
By: R.H.P. Mason , J.G. Caiger
3.49
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
This is one of the most classic books of Japanese history and still the preeminent work on the hist… read more
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2. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
3. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
4. Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too… read more
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5. Sweeney Astray
By: Seamus Heaney
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sw… read more
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6. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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7. Conclave
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more
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8. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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9. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
10. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
11. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
12. From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (From a Certain Point of View, #3)
By: Elizabeth Schaefer
3.93
Format: 573 pages, Hardcover
Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless S… read more
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13. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
14. The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur
By: Max Adams
3.77
Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British h… read more
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15. Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
By: Thomas Williams
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolk… read more
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16. Beowulf and the North before the Vikings (Past Imperfect)
By: Tom Shippey
4.76
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Ever since Tolkien’s famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf i… read more
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17. The Emergence of the English (Past Imperfect)
By: Susan Oosthuizen
4.11
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
This book takes a critical approach to the assumption that the origins of the English can be found … read more
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18. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
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19. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
20. The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
By: Jane Stevenson
4.03
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who c… read more
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21. The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
By: Robin Fleming
4.61
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generati… read more
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