The Truth About St Kilda
By: Donald John Gillies
3.74
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Providing a unique record of St Kilda—a remote chain of islands near Scotland that was home to an i…
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1. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
By: John Grisham
3.86
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, … read more
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"No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete."-John Grisham, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
2. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
3. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
By: James Hilton , Edward Weeks , Henry Matthew Brock , Santiago Munevar
3.97
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Broo… read more
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"All things are forgotten in the end"-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . ."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
4. The Loving Cup (Poldark, #10)
By: Winston Graham
4.29
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Set in the closing years of the wars against Napolean, this tenth novel in the Poldark series follo… read more
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"Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune a…"-Winston Graham, The Loving Cup (Poldark, #10)
5. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
6. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
7. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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8. Bella Poldark (Poldark, #12)
By: Winston Graham
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Cornwall, 1818-1820 The stories of the Poldark family--Ross, the strong, independent squire and his… read more
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9. The Four Swans (Poldark, #6)
By: Winston Graham
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The sixth book in the legendary Poldarksaga. Cornwall, 1795: Although Ross Poldark - now something … read more
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10. The Life and Death of St Kilda
By: Tom Steel
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On 29 August 1930 the remaining 36 inhabitants of this bleak but spectacular island off Scotland's … read more
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11. Island of Wings
By: Karin Altenberg
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A portrait of a marriage, a meditation on faith, and a journey of conquest and self-discovery, Isla… read more
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13. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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14. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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15. The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
By: Alison Weir
4.03
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of t… read more
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16. A Winter Grave
By: Peter May
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more
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17. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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18. Cross Down (Alex Cross #31)
By: James Patterson
4.41
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Alex Cross is gravely injured. Only his partner and friend John Sampson can keep him safe . . . and… read more
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19. Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.00
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propul… read more
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"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
20. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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21. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
By: Tom Bower
3.86
Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition
The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more
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"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
22. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor
By: Valentine Low
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more
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23. A Game of Lies (DC Morgan, #2)
By: Clare Mackintosh
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
They say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can't trust anything you see. Stranded in… read more
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24. Trio
By: William Boyd
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart… read more
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"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People…"-William Boyd, Trio
25. The Stalker (DCI Lorimer, #16)
By: Alex Gray
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest William Lorimer investigation from bestselling author Alex Gray - Glasgow-set crime at i… read more
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26. The Book Club
By: C.J. Cooper
3.38
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Can you trust the woman next door? _______________ The book club was her idea, of course. Ali… read more
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27. A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House
By: Jon Sopel
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the White House. At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and … read more
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28. The Lost Lights of St Kilda
By: Elisabeth Gifford
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St Kilda in 1927, little does he realise that he has joined … read more
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29. The Angry Tide (Poldark, #7)
By: Winston Graham
4.38
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
The Angry Tide is the seventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, the major TV series f… read more
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"They have insisted so much on Equality, that there is no room left for Liberty and little for Fraternity."-Winston Graham, The Angry Tide (Poldark, #7)
"At times I have discovered a new lowness of spirit, a new need to revolt, to kick against the constraints that a civilized life tries to impose."-Winston Graham, The Angry Tide (Poldark, #7)
"Life is like--like one of those hobby-horses you ride at a fair--round and round you go enjoying every moment and then the--then the music stops..."-Winston Graham, The Angry Tide (Poldark, #7)
"The past is over, gone. What is to come doesn't exist yet. That's tomorrow! It's only now that can ever be, at any moment. And at this moment, now, we are alive--and together. We can't ask more. Ther…"-Winston Graham, The Angry Tide (Poldark, #7)
30. The Secret of Cold Hill (House on Cold Hill, #2)
By: Peter James
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Secret of Cold Hill by Peter James is the spine-chilling follow-up to The House on Cold Hill . … read more
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31. The Truth About St Kilda
By: Donald John Gillies
3.74
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Providing a unique record of St Kilda—a remote chain of islands near Scotland that was home to an i… read more
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