Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
By: Stuart Cosgrove
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha F…
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1. The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
By: John Dos Passos
3.82
Format: 325 pages, Trade Paperback
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is … read more
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" Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow stumbling into a little dell where a warm spring was an…"-John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
2. The Instant Enemy (Lew Archer, #14)
By: Ross Macdonald
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Lew Archer is back, careening down the bloody trail of women who were beaten to death, a murdered c… read more
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"The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers."-Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy (Lew Archer, #14)
3. Mr. Nice
By: Howard Marks
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout… read more
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- history
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4. Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
By: Ted Gioia
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of … read more
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- history
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5. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
6. What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
By: Alan Light
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimat… read more
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- music
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7. The Impossible Dead
By: Ian Rankin
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more
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8. The Stars My Destination
By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester
4.06
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more
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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
9. Swan Song
By: Robert McCammon
4.10
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more
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10. One Summer: America, 1927
By: Bill Bryson
4.09
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports read… read more
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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts"-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
11. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
By: Kate Atkinson
3.00
Format: None pages,
Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whi… read more
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12. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.90
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more
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"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
13. Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
By: Tracey Thorn
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman,this is "how … read more
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14. The Bonfire of the Vanities
By: Tom Wolfe
3.90
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more
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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
15. Song Yet Sung
By: James McBride
3.20
Format: 192 pages,
March, 1850. In the tense days before the Civil War, a slave breakout in the labyrinthine swamps of… read more
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16. The Break
By: Marian Keyes
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Amy's husband Hugh isn't really leaving her. At least, that's what he promises. He is just taking a… read more
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17. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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18. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
21. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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- history
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
22. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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23. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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24. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)
By: Ambrose Parry
4.28
Format: 416 pages, ebook
1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more
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25. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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26. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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- history
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"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
27. George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
By: Philip Norman
3.91
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John The Life and the… read more
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28. The Cut
By: Chris Brookmyre
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Millie Spark can kill anyone. A special effects make-up artist, her talent is to create realistic s… read more
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29. Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
By: Bob Stanley
4.30
Format: 636 pages, ebook
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book tha… read more
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30. Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
By: Stuart Cosgrove
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha F… read more
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31. Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One
By: Devi Sridhar
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The COVID-19 pandemic was not inevitable. We could have stopped it, and we still can stop the next … read more
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