Expedition to Disaster
By: Philip Matyszak
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At…
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1. The Punic Wars
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.19
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thorough… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
3. The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
By: Stephen King
4.28
Format: 1050 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticip… read more
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"I don’t like people. They fuck me up"-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
"Ending is just another word for goodbye."-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
"he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls..."-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- italy
- history
- nonfiction
5. Absolution Gap
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - … read more
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6. Tribune of Rome (Vespasian, #1)
By: Robert Fabbri
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patr… read more
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7. Sharpe's Company (Sharpe, #13)
By: Bernard Cornwell , None
4.25
Format: 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback
To stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress—where his wife and infant daughter are … read more
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8. The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King A… read more
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9. The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
By: Anthony Everitt
3.71
Format: 76 pages, ebook
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history s most influential … read more
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10. Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine, #1)
By: Matthew Woodring Stover
3.44
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of mon… read more
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11. The Gladiator (Eagle, #9)
By: Simon Scarrow
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The action-packed new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato from Sunday Times bestsell… read more
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12. Pyrrhus of Epirus
By: Jeff Champion
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Pyrrhus of Epirus was rated by Hannibal as the second greatest general yet seen (placing himself th… read more
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13. Sharpe's Battle (Sharpe, #12)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth installment in the world-renowne… read more
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14. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
15. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.01
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more
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17. 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)
18. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
19. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- nonfiction
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
20. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
By: Stephen Fry
4.32
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such … read more
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- nonfiction
- greece
"You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will."-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends, and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits."-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept …"-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he broug…"-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
21. The Rise of the Seleukid Empire (323 - 223 BC): Seleukos I to Seleukos III
By: John D. Grainger
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander's … read more
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- nonfiction
- greece
22. The Fall of the Seleukid Empire, 187 - 75 BC
By: John D. Grainger
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last centur… read more
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- greece
23. The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III: 223 - 187 BC
By: John D. Grainger
4.20
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Brings to life “a major figure in the Hellenistic World . . . in his own right, rather than as just… read more
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- greece
24. The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome
By: Nick Holmes
4.30
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
It was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the… read more
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- nonfiction
25. The Great Change (and Other Lies)
By: Joe Abercrombie
4.18
Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition
The Great Change (and Other Lies) is a novella-length collection that gathers four short stories re… read more
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26. The Wars of the Maccabees
By: John D. Grainger
3.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
By the second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. B… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Galatians: Celtic Invaders of Greece and Asia Minor
By: John D. Grainger
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One of the few books devoted to this subject, it narrates the momentous yet neglected events of 279… read more
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28. The Story of Greece and Rome
By: Tony Spawforth
3.70
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more… read more
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29. Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome
By: Dexter Hoyos
4.00
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Carthage was the western Mediterranean’s first superpower, long before Rome, and her military histo… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Expedition to Disaster
By: Philip Matyszak
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At… read more
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31. Themistocles: The Powerbroker of Athens
By: Jeffrey Smith
4.50
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
This is an exciting new biography of Themistocles of Athens, architect of the Greek victory over th… read more
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