Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World
By: Tim Flight
3.93
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview—now in…
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1. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
By: Padmasambhava , Robert A.F. Thurman , Karma-glin-pa
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Imagine that as you leave your body at death, you hear the voice of a loved one whispering in your … read more
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- nonfiction
"No sane person fears nothingness."-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"But his virtue was a matter of habit only and he had no philosophy"-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks."-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, --these two,-- are inseparable. The union of them is the Dharma-Kāya state of Perfect Enli…"-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
2. Black Tudors: African Lives in Renaissance England
By: Miranda Kaufmann
2.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
4. Shades of Grey
By: Jasper Fforde
4.11
Format: 559 pages,
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next-- a brilliant new novel about a world where social ord… read more
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5. Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and tex… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. In Search of the Dark Ages
By: Michael Wood
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious ce… read more
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- medieval
- nonfiction
- history
7. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
By: Roger Zelazny , Philip K. Dick , Steven Owen Godersky
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. … read more
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8. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
9. The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
By: Robert E. Howard , Gary Gianni , Patrice Louinet
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Three of longest tales plus outlines, notes, drafts. 1 The People of the Black CircleAmid towering … read more
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10. Uzumaki, Vol. 1
By: Junji Ito
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Shortly after Shuichi Saito's father becomes obsessed with spirals -- snail shells, whirlpools, and… read more
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11. Uzumaki, Vol. 2
By: Junji Ito
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A sleepy town on the coast of Japan is under quiet, deadly siege, not by a person or group but by a… read more
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12. Uzumaki, Vol. 3
By: Junji Ito
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Kurozu-cho, a fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted by a recurring pattern: a spiral mani… read more
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13. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
14. Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.41
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
The balance of King Arthur's unified kingdom is threatened by Merlin's quest for the last of Britai… read more
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- medieval
"If you understand everything, then there is no room for magic."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, a…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left f…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
15. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more
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16. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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- medieval
- nonfiction
- history
17. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
18. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more
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"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
19. Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)
By: Nino Cipri
4.09
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes … read more
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20. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
By: Claire North
3.70
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more
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"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
21. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
By: John Gray
3.54
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
By: Richard J. Evans
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
By: Eleanor Parker
4.17
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more
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- medieval
- nonfiction
- history
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
24. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
By: Hana Videen
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more
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- medieval
- nonfiction
- history
"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
25. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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- medieval
- nonfiction
- history
26. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.05
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more
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27. Graveyard Shift
By: M.L. Rio
3.49
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more
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28. Lady Macbeth
By: Ava Reid
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more
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"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth
29. The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
By: Hana Videen
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan'Invaluable - and huge… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
30. Anglo-Saxon Myths: The Struggle For The Seven Kingdoms
By: Brice Stratford
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Enchanting tales of the gods, kings, and monsters that populated the Anglo-Saxon world. An atmosph… read more
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31. Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World
By: Tim Flight
3.93
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview—now in… read more
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- dragons
- folklore
- nonfiction
- medieval
- anthropology
