The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914
By: Pierre Berton
3.98
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
After the pioneers described in The National Dream , The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers …
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1. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
By: Robert Hughes
4.08
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's in… read more
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"He had been always escaping, always rebelling, always fighting against authority, and always being flogged. There had been a whole lifetime of torment such as this; forty-two years of it; and there h…"-Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
2. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
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4. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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5. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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6. Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
By: Ben Macintyre
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most re… read more
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7. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran
By: Azar Nafisi
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more
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9. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
10. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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11. The Game
By: Ken Dryden
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by "Sports Illustrated" as one … read more
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12. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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13. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
14. Off the Record
By: Peter Mansbridge
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more
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15. The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
By: Julian Sher
4.21
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, dramatic account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of Abrah… read more
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16. The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914
By: Pierre Berton
3.98
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
After the pioneers described in The National Dream , The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers … read more
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