Musical Theatre: A History
By: John Kenrick
3.82
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Acomprehensive history of stage musicals from the 1840s all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber and B…
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1. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
By: Edmund Morris
4.23
Format: 816 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Described by … read more
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"Any black or red man who could win admission to “the fellowship of the doers"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian."-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"[T]he one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfu…"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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- theatre
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Election
By: Tom Perrotta
4.18
Format: None pages,
A suburban New Jersey high school teacher confronts a student-body election gone haywire in this da… read more
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4. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)
By: T.H. White
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more
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5. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
6. The Crystal Shard (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #4)
By: R.A. Salvatore
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Akar Kessel, weak-willed apprentice mage, starts events that find a magical device, the crystal sha… read more
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7. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- history
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
8. The Cherry Orchard
By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more
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9. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- history
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
10. 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
11. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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12. Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works
By: Nathan Leamon
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Times Best Sports Books 2021 - 'the sporting nerd's book of the year' 'Fascinating and insig… read more
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13. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
14. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- history
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
15. I Owe You One
By: Sophie Kinsella
3.53
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an irresistible story of love and empowe… read more
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"Family bloody first."-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
"I'm not gullible, I'm trusting."-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
"The law doesn’t always know what it’s doing,"-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
"The trouble is, I'm sorry doesn't power anything. It drags you down."-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
16. Falling Hard for the Royal Guard
By: Megan Clawson
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Love is in the heir in this royally good rom com debut releasing in Spring 2023 – perfect for anyon… read more
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"It's amazing how a few words from the right person can make the days just a little bit easier"-Megan Clawson, Falling Hard for the Royal Guard
"I do what us Brits do best: brew a pot of tea to make everything feel just that little bit better"-Megan Clawson, Falling Hard for the Royal Guard
"Freddie looks at me as if a star has just fallen from the smog-filled sky and landed right in his hands"-Megan Clawson, Falling Hard for the Royal Guard
"But it turns out that true happiness is just a bar full of beefeaters and the knowledge that someone loves me just as I am"-Megan Clawson, Falling Hard for the Royal Guard
17. In the Heights: Finding Home
By: Lin-Manuel Miranda
4.45
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
In 2008, In the Heights, a new musical from up-and-coming young artists, electrified Broadway. The … read more
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- musicals
18. Musical Theatre: A History
By: John Kenrick
3.82
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Acomprehensive history of stage musicals from the 1840s all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber and B… read more
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- history
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19. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
