Fatal Environment
By: Richard Slotkin
4.28
Format: 654 pages, Paperback
In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subju…
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1. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
By: Matthew Restall
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- nonfiction
2. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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- american
"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
3. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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- american
4. The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
By: Richard Hofstadter
4.29
Format: None pages,
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence Americ… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
5. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
By: Leo Marx
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
- american
- history
7. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
8. Time's Arrow
By: Martin Amis
4.33
Format: None pages,
In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more
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9. Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer
By: Louise Barnett
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong C… read more
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- westerns
- nonfiction
- history
10. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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- westerns
11. Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
By: T.J. Stiles
3.61
Format: 523 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Ar… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
12. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
13. Augustus
By: John Williams
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more
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14. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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15. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
By: Richard Hofstadter
4.12
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
Anti-intellectualism in American Life was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. It is a b… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- nonfiction
"To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury...."-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments."-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to ha…"-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick…"-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
16. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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17. Buffalo Girls
By: Larry McMurtry
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jan… read more
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18. Lila (Gilead, #3)
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an … read more
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19. Streets of Laredo
By: Larry McMurtry
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Loneso… read more
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20. Crossing to Safety
By: Wallace Stegner
3.83
Format: 35 pages,
Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in "The Wa… read more
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21. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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22. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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23. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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- american
"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
24. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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- nonfiction
- american
- history
"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
25. The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which include… read more
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"This heavy, grass-loving dog,"-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
"He who leaps at the moon Into cowshyte falls. Glory unto cowshyte!"-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
"When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety."-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
"Funny how an attack by a sea monster makes everyone less interested in a duel."-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
26. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
27. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
28. Old School
By: Tobias Wolff
3.84
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy… read more
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"a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messen…"-Tobias Wolff, Old School
29. November 1918: The German Revolution
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is general… read more
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- history
30. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920
By: T.J. Jackson Lears
4.05
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources (sermons, diaries, letters) as well as novels, p… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
31. Fatal Environment
By: Richard Slotkin
4.28
Format: 654 pages, Paperback
In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subju… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- americana
- 19th century
- westerns
- native american history
- nonfiction
- environment
- mythology
