Spring in Washington (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
By: Louis J. Halle
4.26
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Since first published in 1947, Spring in Washington has become a beloved classic of nature writing.…
Want to Read"We have forgotten that we live in the universe, and that our civilization itself is merely an elaboration of the palm-leaf hat that one of our ancestors tried on ten thousand years ago to ward off the sun, a more complicated and ample version that now not only wards off the sun but shuts out the view. We have lost ourselves within it. Yet some have told me, when I set out to have a look at the stars or to watch the migration of birds, that I was escaping reality! I judge that it is they who are escaping into the artificial problems of their workaday life."-Louis J. Halle, Spring in Washington (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
"We have forgotten that we live in the universe, and that our civilization itself is merely an elaboration of the palm-leaf hat that one of our ancestors tried on ten thousand years ago to ward off the sun, a more complicated and ample version that now not only wards off the sun but shuts out the view. We have lost ourselves within it. Yet some have told me, when I set out to have a look at the stars or to watch the migration of birds, that I was escaping reality! I judge that it is they who are escaping into the artificial problems of their workaday life."-Louis J. Halle, Spring in Washington (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
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1. The Paris Wife
By: Paula McLain
3.82
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love … read more
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"They love me like a pack of wolves. Ernest"-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
4. Wessex Tales
By: Thomas Hardy
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In addition to his great "Wessex Novels," Thomas Hardy wrote "Wessex Tales" (1896), a collection of… read more
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5. Magpie Murders
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason … read more
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- nonfiction
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7. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
8. Autumn
By: Ali Smith
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more
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9. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
By: Andrea Wulf
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
10. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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11. Reveille in Washington, 1860-65
By: Margaret Leech
3.86
Format: None pages,
1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and… read more
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12. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
By: Robert A. Caro
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more
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13. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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14. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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- nonfiction
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
15. In Suspect Terrain
By: John McPhee
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a … read more
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16. The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
3.68
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more
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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She had resolved to never take another step backward."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
17. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
By: George Crile
4.36
Format: 544 pages,
s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress & a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the His… read more
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18. Draft No. 4
By: John McPhee
4.34
Format: 640 pages,
A superb essay on the difficulties and joys of composition. read more
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19. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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20. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
21. 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
22. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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23. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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24. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
25. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.05
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bests… read more
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"Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]"-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
26. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By: Jonathan C. Slaght
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
27. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
28. The Absolute Book
By: Elizabeth Knox
3.22
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge… read more
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"Suddenly Taryn was furious. 'Why the hell are you always so careful?' 'What else should I be? Most of the good in the world is remedial. It's fixing things and caring for people. Taking care."-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"No matter how out of the ordinary demonic possession was, it was still somehow a smoker's lung cancer, a drunk's pancreatitis, a philanderer's STI - a thing she had brought upon herself by not behavi…"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"Something terrible had happened in his life to send him back to her looking for revenge. He believed she had been unlucky for him and was to be blamed for some calamity, some failure or loss. But he …"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"She felt the Muleskinner was less interested in enjoying her attention than figuring out what he could do for her. There were people who stole near to you, and you could sense their shadows touching …"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
29. The Manningtree Witches
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more
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""-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
30. Spring in Washington (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
By: Louis J. Halle
4.26
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Since first published in 1947, Spring in Washington has become a beloved classic of nature writing.… read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"We have forgotten that we live in the universe, and that our civilization itself is merely an elaboration of the palm-leaf hat that one of our ancestors tried on ten thousand years ago to ward off th…"-Louis J. Halle, Spring in Washington (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
31. A Naturalist's Guide to the Virginia Coast
By: Curtis J. Badger
4.38
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
As Curtis Badger will tell you, "Being a good naturalist has more to do with being an enthusiastic … read more
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