A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony
By: Julia Boyd
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts…
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1. Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
By: Timothy Zahn
4.18
Format: 439 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord—Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the … read more
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"Yes, they’d lost. But it was just a battle, not the war."-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
"I rule the Empire now. Not some long-dead Emperor; certainly not you. the only treason is defiance of my orders."-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
"One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings"-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
"The maitrakh met her gaze steadily, her alien face unreadable. 'Are you offering me your help?' Leia asked. 'There is honor in you, Lady Vader,' the maitrakh said, her voice quiet. 'For the life and …"-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
2. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
By: Michael Shaara
4.33
Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more
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"Never let them see you run."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
3. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.12
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more
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"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
4. The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
By: Jean M. Auel
3.43
Format: 828 pages, Hardcover
In The land of Painted Caves, Jean M. Auel brings the ice-age epic Earth's Children series to an ex… read more
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"as dangerous as they are, I always hate to kill a cave lion if I don’t have to. They are so beautiful, so lithe and graceful in the way they move. Cave lions don’t have much to be afraid of. Their st…"-Jean M. Auel, The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
5. Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An accl… read more
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6. The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
By: Jean M. Auel
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jean M. Auels magistrale serie De aardkinderen vertelt het verhaal over het ontzagwekkende mysterie… read more
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7. The Sign of Four
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Peter Ackroyd , Ed Glinert
4.00
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sher… read more
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8. America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation
By: Jim Rasenberger
5.00
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking ride through the highs and lows of one spectacular, pivotal year in American history… read more
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9. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By: Mary Beard
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more
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10. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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11. Dragon Teeth
By: Michael Crichton
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel--an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden a… read more
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12. The Last Command (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #3)
By: Timothy Zahn
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnan… read more
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13. Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk
By: Gregory A. Freeman
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawkwas … read more
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14. Shadow Divers
By: Robert Kurson
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which t… read more
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15. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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16. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
By: Candice Millard
4.24
Format: None pages,
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17. Breakheart Pass
By: Alistair MacLean
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre. The Ro… read more
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18. Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
By: Dean Koontz
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is bec… read more
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"The dead are merely the countrymen of my future."-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
"The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness."-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
"I stopped in St. Bernadette's Cemetery one of my favorite places... The trunks of six giant oaks rise like columns supporting a ceiling formed by their interlocking crowns. In the quiet space below, …"-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
19. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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20. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
21. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
22. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
23. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
24. The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
By: Charles Krauthammer
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate co… read more
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"As Chesterton once put it unkindly, ‘Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe anything."-Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
"He believed in Einstein’s (apocryphal) dictum that ‘if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."-Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
"It is not just wrong but dangerous to underestimate the rationality of regimes that profess the craziest of ends. The very designation “crazy state"-Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
"Australia is the only country that has fought with the United States in every one of its major conflicts since 1914, the good and the bad, the winning and the losing."-Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
25. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
By: Hampton Sides
4.57
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle… read more
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26. A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony
By: Julia Boyd
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts… read more
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