Tales of Valhalla: Norse Myths and Legends
By: Martyn Whittock
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A vivid retelling of Norse mythology that explores these legendary stories and their significance a…
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1. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
By: Elizabeth George Speare
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Newbery Medal Winner (1959) Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the col… read more
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- historical
- classics
"People are afraid of things they don’t understand."-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
"Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten."-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
"She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read."-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
"She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet. A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face."-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
2. The Poetic Edda
By: Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
The Poetic Eddacomprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place … read more
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- classics
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mythology
3. McGlue
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.67
Format: None pages,
Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more
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- historical
4. The Age of the Vikings
By: Anders Winroth
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth.… read more
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5. Drown
By: Junot Díaz
3.86
Format: 262 pages,
With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban commu… read more
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6. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
By: Janet Burroway , Elizabeth Stuckey-French
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story w… read more
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7. Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War (Caravan Book)
By: Gary W. Gallagher
4.42
Format: 288 pages,
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their idea… read more
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8. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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- historical
- classics
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
9. The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
Dear Reader, If you have just picked up this book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Lik… read more
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10. 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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11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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12. Radio Free Albemuth
By: Philip K. Dick
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had infor… read more
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13. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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14. The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (I Survived, #10)
By: Lauren Tarshis
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
The beast beneath the mountain is restless... No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when t… read more
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15. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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16. In the Distance
By: Hernan Diaz
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more
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17. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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18. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- religion
- history
19. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
20. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By: Nick Offerman
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more
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- nonfiction
"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
21. Norse Mythology
By: Neil Gaiman
4.10
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780393356182 Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient … read more
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- classics
- religion
- mythology
"Ragnarok is coming."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"And the game begins anew."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Rebirth always follows death."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
22. Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
By: James Clavell
4.41
Format: 1152 pages, Paperback
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e… read more
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- historical
- classics
"I can't use hope against swords."-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
"Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now ."-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
"Horses are far worse than men for treachery..."-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
23. The Witch's Heart
By: Genevieve Gornichec
4.05
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the g… read more
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- mythology
"I can’t believe,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"We're odd. She's odd. She fits right in, does she not?"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"They say a witch used to live in these woods, a long long time ago,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest."-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
24. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.23
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more
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25. Devil House
By: John Darnielle
3.22
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more
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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."-John Darnielle, Devil House
"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
26. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
By: Shelley Puhak
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)
By: Claire Legrand
3.98
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that started with the instant New York Times bestsellers F… read more
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"If you live, then I live. If you die, then I am no longer."-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)
"Someone who hates me as he does deserves no piece of my heart."-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)
"There is too much hate in the world already. Why direct more of it at yourself?"-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)
"Past the grief, there is light still, even if only in memory. Tell me about that light."-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)
28. Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)
By: Claire Legrand
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller Furyborn, two queens, separated by a thousa… read more
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"I am myself. My mind is my own. And I am not afraid."-Claire Legrand, Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)
"He was the steady voice in her mind that spoke to her when she didn't feel steady at all."-Claire Legrand, Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)
"With every slam of his boots against the floor, his mind chanted one furious word—a curse, a plea, a prayer. Eliana. Eliana. Eliana. "-Claire Legrand, Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)
29. Tales of Valhalla: Norse Myths and Legends
By: Martyn Whittock
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A vivid retelling of Norse mythology that explores these legendary stories and their significance a… read more
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- history
- historical
- religion
- nonfiction
- mythology
30. Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth
By: Gordon Campbell
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- mythology
