A Short History of the Baptists
By: Henry C. Vedder
3.63
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
This classic in the field of Baptist history up to 1900 traces the development of Baptist principle…
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1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
By: Laura Hillenbrand
4.38
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeare… read more
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"Without dignity, identity is erased."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
2. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
3. City of God
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson
3.93
Format: 1186 pages, Paperback
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more
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- nonfiction
"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
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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5. The Great Divorce
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more
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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
6. Little Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall
4.00
Format: 1021 pages, Paperback
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
7. The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Fully Updated
By: Josh McDowell
3.67
Format: 244 pages,
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8. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
3.67
Format: None pages,
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abrah… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus
By: Mark Dever
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to "make disciples of all nations." But … read more
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10. The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
By: Anonymous
3.91
Format: 241 pages,
Now the complete ESV Bible comes alive in audio format! The new ESVHear the Word Audio Bibleprovide… read more
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11. Go Set a Watchman
By: Harper Lee
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning… read more
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12. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
13. Spiritual Leadership
By: J. Oswald Sanders
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
With over 500,000 in print, Spiritual Leadership is the perennial favorite for teaching the princip… read more
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14. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
15. The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel The Main Thing
By: C.J. Mahaney , None
4.00
Format: 120 pages,
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16. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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- nonfiction
"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
17. Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4)
By: Douglas Preston
4.31
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bests… read more
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18. Extinction
By: Douglas Preston
4.14
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more
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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
19. The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Pendergast, #21)
By: Douglas Preston
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Con… read more
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20. A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.93
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sente… read more
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21. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
By: Randall Munroe
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildl… read more
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- nonfiction
"It turns out that if you accelerate at 1 G for several years, you can reach almost any destination in the universe. After a few years have passed [traveling at that rate], the effects of relativity r…"-Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
22. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
By: Andrew Wilson
4.51
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more
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- nonfiction
- church history
23. The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? New York Times bestselling auth… read more
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24. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- nonfiction
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
26. Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
By: J. Warner Wallace
4.58
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Can the truth about Jesus be uncovered--even without a body or a crime scene? Join cold-case detect… read more
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- nonfiction
"When you examine the details related to each similarity between Jesus and ancient, mythologies, the resemblances begin to vanish, Jesus isn't much like the other gods after all."-J. Warner Wallace, Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
"If Jewish believers approached the evidence for Jesus as they might approach the evidence in a crime scene, they would be far more likely to accept him as the prophesied Messiah."-J. Warner Wallace, Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
"Jesus matters because his influence on spiritual seekers and religious thinkers is so overwhelming that every major world religion either mentions or merges him into their theological system."-J. Warner Wallace, Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
"The religions of the world made room for Jesus, but Jesus never budged. His teaching mattered to the other religions, but Krishna, the Buddha, Muhammad, Baha'u'llah, and Ahmad combined didn't have a …"-J. Warner Wallace, Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
27. No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship
By: Rebecca McLaughlin
4.26
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Greater love has no one than that he lay down his life for his friends. –John 15:13 Our culture id… read more
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28. The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible: King James Version
By: Anonymous
4.72
Format: 1923 pages, Paperback
King James Version | Regular Print Size | 8pt text | Black Bonded Leather Smyth sewn pages | Gold g… read more
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- nonfiction
29. When Christmas Comes (Cameron Winter #1)
By: Andrew Klavan
3.94
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal holiday gift book selection A sleuthing English teacher will need a Christmas… read more
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"We reveal ourselves in the stories we tell."-Andrew Klavan, When Christmas Comes (Cameron Winter #1)
"He had one more glimpse of them as he pulled the Jeep out: three figures captured in the headlights, a child clinging to a woman, a man with his arms around the woman’s shoulders, the snow coming dow…"-Andrew Klavan, When Christmas Comes (Cameron Winter #1)
30. A Short History of the Baptists
By: Henry C. Vedder
3.63
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
This classic in the field of Baptist history up to 1900 traces the development of Baptist principle… read more
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