A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Willard A. Hanna
3.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book tells the story of Bali--the "paradise island of the Pacific"--its rulers and its people,…
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1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2. The Collector
By: John Fowles
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obse… read more
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3. La uruguaya
By: Pedro Mairal
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Como en los suenos, en Montevideo las cosas me resultaban parecidas pero diferentes. Eran pero no … read more
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4. In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes
By: Luo Guanzhong , Moss Roberts
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been." With this … read more
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6. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
By: Tim Hannigan
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)
By: Brent Weeks
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose … read more
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9. The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
By: Stieg Larsson , David Lagercrantz , George Goulding
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
She is the girl with the dragon tattoo--a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusadin… read more
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10. Bali: Sekala and Niskala : Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art
By: None
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
These two volumes present erudite yet informal essays on the visible -- sekala -- and the occult --… read more
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11. Fatherland
By: Robert Harris
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country i… read more
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12. Stormy Weather
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more
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13. Shibumi
By: Trevanian
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nicholai Hel is the world's most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he i… read more
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14. One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
By: John Rothchild , Peter Lynch
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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15. A Dangerous Business
By: Jane Smiley
3.17
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more
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16. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
17. Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)
By: Lee Child
3.96
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” Th… read more
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18. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
19. Antarctica Station
By: A.G. Riddle
4.02
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
In Antarctica, a groundbreaking experiment will change everything. Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all… read more
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20. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
21. Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
By: Robert Galbraith
4.37
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a wom… read more
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"Clues from chaos, sense from madness."-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
" I love you don't forget me whatever hpapens to me. I love you. "-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
"We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are."-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
"Betty Fuller looked as though she'd been subject to heavier gravity than the rest of humankind."-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
22. The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)
By: Lee Child
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One m… read more
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"Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds."-Lee Child, The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)
23. I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
By: Ramit Sethi
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
As seen on the new NETFLIX series! The groundbreaking NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSE… read more
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24. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
25. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
By: Ian W. Toll
4.59
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a … read more
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26. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
27. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
By: Bill Gates
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more
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28. Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more
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"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
29. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
By: Louise Perry
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more
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"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
30. A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Willard A. Hanna
3.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book tells the story of Bali--the "paradise island of the Pacific"--its rulers and its people,… read more
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31. A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia: Multiculturalism and Prosperity: The Shared History of Two Southeast Asian Tigers (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Christopher Hale
3.74
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different iden… read more
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