The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas
By: Rear Admiral C. H. Layman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In 1741, the British warship HMS Wager crashed on the shore of an uninhabited island off the coast …
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. Relic (Pendergast, #1)
By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visi… read more
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3. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
4. Death Knocks Twice (Death in Paradise, #3)
By: Robert Thorogood
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Reluctantly stationed on the sweltering Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, Detective Inspector Richar… read more
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5. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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- nonfiction
6. 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
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7. The Virgin's Lover (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.99
Format: 112 pages,
From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool comes a stunning portrait of the firs… read more
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8. Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #7)
By: Michael Connelly
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry B… read more
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9. The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.89
Format: 440 pages,
A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find he… read more
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10. The Dispatcher
By: John Scalzi , Zachary Quinto
4.57
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 2 hours and 18 minutes One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible t… read more
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11. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more
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12. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
13. West with the Night
By: Beryl Markham
4.33
Format: None pages,
West with the Nightis the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life … read more
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14. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
15. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
16. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
17. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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18. A Chateau Under Siege
By: Martin Walker
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more
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19. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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20. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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21. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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22. Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Nor… read more
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23. Shadowplay
By: Joseph O'Connor
3.86
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
1878- The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that… read more
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"Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it."-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love. [Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"The belief that wickedness is the province of monsters, not men, is consoling to those who are young. [Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"You write for the winds, uncorrupted by hope and untouched by hope's sibling, despair. [Bram Stoker, to Walt Whitman]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
24. City Dark
By: Roger A. Canaff
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces … read more
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25. The Rise
By: Ian Rankin
3.65
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more
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26. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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27. Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.84
Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher (she of… read more
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"Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't."-Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
"In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd s…"-Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
28. Trafalgar
By: Nicholas Best
4.51
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Two hundred years ago Napoleon Bonaparte planned to lead his Grande Armée to Britain, the only coun… read more
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29. Punishment of a Hunter (A Leningrad Confidential #1)
By: Yulia Yakovleva
3.58
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
1930s Leningrad. As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to inv… read more
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30. The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas
By: Rear Admiral C. H. Layman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In 1741, the British warship HMS Wager crashed on the shore of an uninhabited island off the coast … read more
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