Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
By: David Willis McCullough
3.51
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The riveting true story of how Ireland came to be, told through eyewitness accounts from a thousand…
Want to Read $ 13.99"...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king."-David Willis McCullough, Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
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1. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
By: Masha Gessen
4.19
Format: 515 pages, Hardcover
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"...But reason was helpless against demagogy."-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely."-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may h…"-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about God, power, and human life. After fifty years of purges, ar…"-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
2. A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
By: Lee Child
4.05
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose, patch… read more
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"Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends."-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
"Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive"-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
"A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish."-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
"As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration."-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
3. The Stolen Marriage
By: Diane Chamberlain
4.27
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally ca… read more
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- historical
4. 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
By: Lee Child
4.12
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your l… read more
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"I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me."-Lee Child, 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
"Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty."-Lee Child, 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
"To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the res…"-Lee Child, 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
"Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable w…"-Lee Child, 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
5. 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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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
6. Beric the Briton
By: G.A. Henty
5.00
Format: None pages,
This story deals with the invasion of Britain by the Roman legionaries. Beric, who is a boy-chief o… read more
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- historical
7. The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier
By: Alistair Moffat
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
8. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
By: Robert K. Massie
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
9. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By: Caroline Fraser
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
10. The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
By: Robert L. Wilken
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
By: Lee Child
3.95
Format: None pages,
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reac… read more
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12. The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)
By: Jeff Wheeler
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blight of Muirwood, the second book in the Muirwood Trilogy, Lia finds herself filled with i… read more
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13. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
14. Make Me (Jack Reacher, #20)
By: Lee Child
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Jack Reacher Novel "Why is this town called Mother's Rest?"That's all Reacher wants to know. But … read more
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15. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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16. From the Earth to the Moon
By: Jules Verne
3.76
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more
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"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
17. The Fix (Amos Decker, #3)
By: David Baldacci
4.25
Format: 194 pages,
David Baldacci's remarkable detective Amos Decker - the man who can forget nothing - was first intr… read more
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18. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
By: Tony Horwitz
4.24
Format: 376 pages,
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of Ameri… read more
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19. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
By: Alison Weir
3.88
Format: 192 pages,
Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a textbook, Alison Weir… read more
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20. I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.36
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When peo… read more
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"And you know what? Books live. The pages remember!"-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
21. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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22. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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23. Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)
By: Lee Child , Dick Hill
3.94
Format: 313 pages, Audiobook
Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice pres… read more
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24. 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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- history
- world history
- historical
- war
- 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
25. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
26. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
27. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
By: Michael Lewis
4.09
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
28. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- irish literature
- ireland
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
29. Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #34)
By: Michael Connelly
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselli… read more
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30. Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
3.64
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
“Extraordinary.… A feast of history, an expert tour through thousands of years of war and conquest.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"With only rare exceptions, history shows that while strategy and bravery can win a battle, the frontiers of science and technology must be exploited to win a war."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
"America may be losing a competitive edge in many enterprises, from cars to space, riffed National Public Radio host Scott Simon in the summer of 2010, "but as long as we can devise a five-bladed, min…"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
31. Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
By: David Willis McCullough
3.51
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The riveting true story of how Ireland came to be, told through eyewitness accounts from a thousand… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- war
- military history
- research
- nonfiction
- medieval
- ireland
- irish literature
"...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king."-David Willis McCullough, Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
