History of the Balkans: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
By: Ferdinand Schevill
3.69
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
Thick and heavy concise well researched book about the Balkan states.In A History of the Balkans,Sc…
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1. Bone White
By: Ronald Malfi
3.89
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
A landscape of frozen darkness punctuated by grim, gray days. The feeling like a buzz in your tee… read more
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2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
3. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
4. A Killer in King's Cove (Lane Winslow #1)
By: Iona Whishaw
3.95
Format: None pages,
A smart and enchanting postwar mystery written for fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Wi… read more
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5. Kosovo: A Short History
By: Noel Malcolm
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
Kosovo, a 55-mile-long plateau south of Serbia bordering Albania & Macedonia, should by all rights … read more
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6. Death in a Darkening Mist (Lane Winslow #2)
By: Iona Whishaw
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
The second instalment in the Lane Winslow mystery series; for fans of the Maisie Dobbs and Bess Cra… read more
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7. London
By: Edward Rutherfurd
2.69
Format: 88 pages,
Here is Edward Rutherfurd's classic novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years… read more
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8. The United States Constitution
By: Founding Fathers
4.60
Format: 645 pages,
This edition shows the 1787 United States Constitution. It does not include the Bill of Rights nor … read more
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9. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
By: Robert D. Kaplan
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croa… read more
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10. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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11. 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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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
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"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
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
13. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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14. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more
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15. Soldier of Rome: March to Oblivion (The Artorian Dynasty #3)
By: James Mace
4.54
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
In 89 A.D., following a failed insurrection by the governor of Upper Germania, the disgraced Legio … read more
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16. An Old, Cold Grave (Lane Winslow #3)
By: Iona Whishaw
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The third book in the popular Lane Winslow mystery series by an author the Globe and Mail has calle… read more
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17. The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower
By: Nick Holmes
4.25
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. The Making of Eastern Europe: From Prehistory to Postcommunism
By: Philip Longworth
3.84
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
Why has the collapse of Communism resulted in so much disappointment for the hopeful millions of Ea… read more
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19. History of the Balkans: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
By: Ferdinand Schevill
3.69
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
Thick and heavy concise well researched book about the Balkan states.In A History of the Balkans,Sc… read more
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