The History of Rome in 12 Buildings: A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of The Eternal City
By: Phillip Barlag
3.90
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple Why is …
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1. Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.31
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a natio… read more
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"We all suffer from dreams."-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
"Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal."-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
"...victory does not come to men who listen to their fears."-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
"Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?"-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
2. In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Fire in the East (Warrior of Rome, #1)
By: Harry Sidebottom
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
'WAR IS HELL . . . ' The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its au… read more
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4. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
By: Anthony Doerr
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of t… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- travel
- audiobook
5. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Weight of Glory
By: C.S. Lewis
4.38
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more
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- nonfiction
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
7. Company of Liars
By: Karen Maitland
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desp… read more
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8. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
By: Robert Graves
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more
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- italy
9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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10. Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
By: None
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point … read more
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11. The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
By: Robert W. Service
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert Service. read more
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12. Julian
By: Gore Vidal
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spr… read more
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13. Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling
By: Jeb Blount
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Ditch the failed sales tactics, fill your pipeline, and crush your number Fanatical Prospectinggive… read more
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14. The Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more
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15. Icelandic Folk Legends: Tales of Apparitions, Outlaws and Things Unseen
By: Alda Sigmundsdóttir
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Icelandic nation has a long and rich history of storytelling. Throughout centuries characterize… read more
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16. The Burning Land (The Saxon Stories, #5)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.87
Format: 515 pages, Paperback
The enemy is massing on the borders, a united force for once. The king, a man of many victories, is… read more
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17. The Colosseum
By: Keith Hopkins , Mary Beard
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The reality of the Colosseum is much stranger than legend as explained by two classical historians … read more
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18. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
By: C.G. Jung
4.20
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more
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"Is that which science calls the “psyche"-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
19. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
20. You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love
By: Allie Beth Stuckey
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of the sharpest Christian voices of her generation and host of the podcast Relatable comes… read more
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- audiobook
"Our truth is usually Satan's lie."-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love
"Because the self can't be both the problem and the solution."-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love
"The self isn't enough---period. The answer to the purposelessness and hollowness we feel is found not in us but outside of us. The solutions to our problems and pain aren't found in self-love, but in…"-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love
"This is an argument I made in a podcast episode titled "Three Myths Christian Women Believe". The first myth was that you are enough. My counter was this: you're not enough, you'll never be enough, a…"-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love
21. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By: Michael Pollan
3.72
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more
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- history
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23. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- audiobook
- travel
- italian literature
24. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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- history
- audiobook
25. The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
By: Joshua Becker
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your… read more
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- audiobook
"Not every possession is belonging."-Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
"Never organize what you can discard."-Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
"Be who you are, not who you wished to be."-Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
"A minimizing accelerator: removing duplicates"-Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
26. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
By: Philip Matyszak
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most po… read more
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"Every time Titus comes to Rome, he feels his sinuses cringe in horror."-Philip Matyszak, 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
27. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
By: Egill Bjarnason
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
28. The Fireground
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.65
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Flynn was only a teenager when her parents were killed in a terrible accident. Too young to lose he… read more
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29. Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
By: Matthew Kneale
3.86
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by… read more
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- history
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30. Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents)
By: Matt Goulding
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed Rice, Noodle, Fish and Grape, Olive, Pig, a gorgeously illustrated food-lover… read more
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"Italian cuisine, at its very best, is a math problem that doesn't add up. A tangle of noodles, a few scraps of pork, a grating of cheese are transformed into something magical. 1+1=3: more alchemy th…"-Matt Goulding, Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents)
"We are eating warm bread slathered in cold butter and topped with salty anchovies, one of those three-ingredient Italian constructions- a shopping list more than a recipe- that can stop a conversatio…"-Matt Goulding, Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents)
"You'll find trattorie brimming with the spirit of Sicily no matter which direction you head from the Four Corners. At Zia Pina, you will find no menu at all, just Pina and her helpers cooking up grea…"-Matt Goulding, Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents)
"The Langhe is a paradise, a giardino : pears, apples, pomegranates, chestnuts. Everything you could want to eat falling from a tree. And above all, nocciole . You see those trees? Those are South Ame…"-Matt Goulding, Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents)
31. The History of Rome in 12 Buildings: A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of The Eternal City
By: Phillip Barlag
3.90
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple Why is … read more
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- history
- travel
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