The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle
By: Charles Williams
4.08
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
"I am France, " General Charles de Gaulle announced when he formed the Free French in 1941. It was …
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1. No Logo
By: Naomi Klein
3.89
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more
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"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
2. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
3. The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
By: Michael Connelly
4.12
Format: 439 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Narcotics office Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he e… read more
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"You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall."-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?"-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions."-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"one of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into th…"-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
4. Hoover: The Life and Times of Herbert Hoover
By: Kenneth Whyte
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert … read more
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5. From Bauhaus to Our House
By: Tom Wolfe
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The strange saga of American architecture in the twentieth century makes for both high comedy and i… read more
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- history
6. The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4)
By: Michael Connelly
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harry's life is a mess. His house has been condemned because of earthquake damage. His girlfriend h… read more
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7. The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
By: Michael Connelly
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic from a #1 "New York Times" bestselling author, Detective Harry Bosch thought he'd s… read more
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8. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
4.27
Format: 67 pages,
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more
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9. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
10. The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
By: Michael Connelly
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is mo… read more
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11. The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)
By: Michael Connelly
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to … read more
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12. A Gun for Sale
By: Samuel Hynes , Graham Greene
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of Wa… read more
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13. The Brass Verdict (Harry Bosch, #14; Mickey Haller, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)
By: Michael Connelly
4.71
Format: None pages,
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, H… read more
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14. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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15. The Reversal (Harry Bosch, #16; Mickey Haller, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #19)
By: Michael Connelly
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profi… read more
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16. Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6)
By: Michael Connelly
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When B-grade L.A. movie producer Tony Aliso is found stuffed into the trunk of his Rolls Royce, all… 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. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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19. The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
By: Michael Connelly
4.21
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it… read more
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" There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962."-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him …"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for li…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system’s checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizatio…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
20. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more
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21. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle
By: Charles Williams
4.08
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
"I am France, " General Charles de Gaulle announced when he formed the Free French in 1941. It was … read more
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