Alfred
By: John Peddie
3.38
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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1. Green Hills of Africa
By: Ernest Hemingway , Edward Shenton
3.54
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game … read more
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"The earth gets tired of being exploited."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
"Also I wanted the whisky for itself, because I loved the taste of it and because, being as happy as I could be, it made me feel even better."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
2. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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- biography
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
3. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
By: Marc Morris
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more
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- medieval
- biography
- history
4. The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
By: Ian Mortimer
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he taxed his people more than … read more
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- medieval
- biography
- history
5. The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
By: Robert E. Howard , Mark Schultz , Patrice Louinet
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellaneadrafts, notes, maps by author. Cimmeria … read more
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6. The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, #2)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
1886. John Carter, forever 30, returns to Mars and again fights enemies with green Tars Tarka and r… read more
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7. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
8. Caesar: Life of a Colossus
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.22
Format: 583 pages, Hardcover
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more
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- history
- biography
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
9. Galaxy in Flames
By: Ben Counter
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces a… read more
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10. The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.40
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor m… read more
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"(She) threw Stephen a quick, apologetic glance and ran into the house. She might be in a strange hurry of spirits, but she moved with the perfect, unconscious grace that had always touched him, and h…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
11. 1415: Henry V's Year Of Glory
By: Ian Mortimer
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionized in his own day for his victory at Agincourt… read more
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12. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
13. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye
3.81
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more
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"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
14. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more
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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
15. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
16. War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.60
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY… The epic conclusion to the globally bestsell… read more
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"All men have enemies, otherwise they're not men"-Bernard Cornwell, War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13)
"I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred, and his father was also called Uhtred, and they were all lords of Bebbanburg. I am that too, though these days folk call me the Lord of the Nort…"-Bernard Cornwell, War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13)
17. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
By: Michael Shellenberger
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America… read more
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18. Alfred
By: John Peddie
3.38
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
John Peddie expertly examines the scale and intent of the relentless threat of conquest by the Viki… read more
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