This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
By: Mark Molesky
3.78
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Th…
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4.00
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
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2. The Spanish Civil War
By: Hugh Thomas
4.14
Format: 1120 pages, Paperback
Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the defi… read more
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3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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5. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
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6. The Portuguese: A Modern History
By: Barry Hatton
3.60
Format: None pages,
Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency a… read more
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7. The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)
By: Laurie R. King
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. H… read more
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8. Barcelona
By: Robert Hughes
4.40
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Barcelonais Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un… read more
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9. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
By: Giles Tremlett
3.66
Format: 32 pages,
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing … read more
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10. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more
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11. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration i… read more
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12. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
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3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
14. The Trackers
By: Charles Frazier
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more
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"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."-Charles Frazier, The Trackers
15. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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4.19
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17. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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3.97
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4.45
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3.75
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20. Queen Of The Sea: A History Of Lisbon
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3.96
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21. This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
By: Mark Molesky
3.78
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Th… read more
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