Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings
By: Francis Young
4.00
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature, the…
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1. Black Hole
By: Charles Burns
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more
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2. Marie Antoinette: The Journey
By: Antonia Fraser
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving boo… read more
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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 will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate 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. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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6. The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
By: None
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, s… read more
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7. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
3.99
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more
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"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
8. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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9. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more
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10. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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11. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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12. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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13. What Kind of Mother
By: Clay McLeod Chapman
3.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more
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14. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
15. Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
By: Thomas Williams
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolk… read more
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16. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
By: Rivka Galchen
3.40
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmos… read more
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"That's what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry."-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"I also felt that I had failed Hans in failing to save his child. Poor Susanna, in that house with me, but really alone. She mended every garment in the home, even those of the children. LittleHammer …"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"Scudding is calming work, as it requires all of my attention to not let the knife slip. When I do it, I feel the steady purpose a cat must feel when bathing itself with its coarse tongue. Some of my …"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"I was certain she would recover. She had so much strength in her, and spirit. I started making some pickles; I was thinking that many months ahead. The cucumbers were so green and compelling, and I c…"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
17. Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
By: Thomas Waters
3.37
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and … read more
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18. Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
By: Ronald Hutton
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from t… read more
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19. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By: Tabitha Stanmore
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more
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20. Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape
By: Jeremy Harte
3.92
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Now in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and co… read more
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21. Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings
By: Francis Young
4.00
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature, the… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- folklore
