Bedlam: London's Hospital for the Mad
By: Paul Chambers
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
We all know the word 'bedlam' as a term of madness and confusion, but few of us really know the sto…
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1. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
By: James Hilton , Edward Weeks , Henry Matthew Brock , Santiago Munevar
3.97
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Broo… read more
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"All things are forgotten in the end"-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . ."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
2. Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum
By: Mark Stevens , Mark Stevens
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
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- nonfiction
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3. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By: Colin Woodard
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Cases That Haunt Us (Lisa Drew Books)
By: None , Mark Olshaker
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Sectioned: A Life Interrupted
By: John O'Donoghue
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An intelligent account of one man's experiences of mental illness and institutions: a rare insight … read more
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- nonfiction
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- mental health
6. The Locked Ward: The Memoir of a Psychiatric Orderly
By: Dennis O'Donnell
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 2000 Dennis O'Donnell was approached to work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Uni… read more
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7. Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care
By: Mark Stevens
3.56
Format: None pages,
Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of the nineteenth century public asylums. … read more
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8. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
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9. Voices from the Aslyum: West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum
By: Mark Davis , Marina Kidd
4.45
Format: 864 pages,
Almost forgotten by time, tucked away beyond the sight of the passerby, there is a little piece of … read more
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10. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)
By: Peter Robinson
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more
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11. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
By: Alison Goodman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as a… read more
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"What makes you think he is trustworthy?’ ‘ He has a sense of humor,’ I said, and then added the final proof. ‘And he found my observations funny too."-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"If you need me, just yell,' he said. 'Ladies do not yell,' I replied over my shoulder. 'But renegades do.' I caught a glimpse of myself in one of the mirrors as I passed; my color was high and I had …"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"My brother pursed his lips. 'Love? Really, Augusta, this is an important decision. If you think love is essential to a good match it is no wonder you are still unmarried.' 'Duffy, that is unkind,' Ju…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"He took the offering and positioned it behind his head with a baleful look. 'If I recall, it is your fault I have lost a great deal of blood,' Undeniable, but then again, I had not started the encoun…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
12. 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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- history
"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
13. Black Drop (Laurence Jago, #1)
By: Leonora Nattrass
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This is the confession of Laurence Jago. Clerk. Gentleman. Reluctant spy. July 1794, and the str… read more
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14. Dirt Creek
By: Hayley Scrivenor
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more
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15. Paradise (DS Walker, #2)
By: Patricia Wolf
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coas… read more
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16. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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17. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- history
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
18. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)
By: Foz Meadows
4.02
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planne… read more
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"…rest assured, making a spectacle of myself by kissing strange men at parties is one of my foremost skill sets."-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)
"I didn’t know wether I’d acted as I had because I wanted to live or because I hope to die; only that, either way, I hadn’t succeeded."-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)
"It was like being haunted: I had no control over what apparently innocent thing would suddenly turn spectre, making me fear his hands, his voice, as though it were happening again; as though, in some…"-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)
19. The Good Turn (Cormac Reilly, #3)
By: Dervla McTiernan
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The unputdownable new novel from the bestselling author of The Ruin and The Scholar. Police corrupt… read more
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20. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
By: Gwen Adshead
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more
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- medicine
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
21. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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- history
22. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
By: Lara Maiklem
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more
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- history
"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
23. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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24. Still
By: Matt Nable
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
STILL is an evocative, confronting and page-turning thriller from a brilliant Australian writer. If… read more
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25. Winterset Hollow
By: Jonathan Edward Durham
3.99
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to me… read more
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"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow
26. A Shadow at the Door
By: Jo Dixon
3.84
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a vividly portrayed story that revea… read more
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27. Manhunt: The Night Stalker: Now a major TV drama starring Martin Clunes
By: Colin Sutton
4.22
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
SECOND IN THE MANHUNT SERIES - NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING MARTIN CLUNES What does it take to ca… read more
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28. Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
By: Judith Flanders
4.21
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
In Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, a… read more
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29. Bedlam: London's Hospital for the Mad
By: Paul Chambers
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
We all know the word 'bedlam' as a term of madness and confusion, but few of us really know the sto… read more
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30. Opal (DS Walker #3)
By: Patricia Wolf
4.23
Format: None pages, ebook
A small mining town. A brutal double murder. A killer among them. DS Lucas Walker is off duty. H… read more
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