The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
By: Daisy Dunn
4.01
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in …
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1. The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
By: Ronald Hutton
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
2. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
3. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- feminism
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- womens
- adult
4. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
By: Amanda Jones
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- biography
5. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
By: Anthony Bale
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
6. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
By: Irving Finkel
4.03
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial.In The First Ghost… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
"It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, na…"-Irving Finkel, The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
7. The Modern Fairies
By: Clare Pollard
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Lauren Groff’s The Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this the wry, sexy, and sharp hist… read more
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- adult
"If there's such a thing as a kiss of true love, then we must declare that this is one of them: this moment in which their whole life trembles, like the world reflected in a drop of dew."-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"For a year or so the group stays intimate and exclusively feminine. But then, after Marie coins the term "contes de fées," or fairy tales, the fame of these "Modern Fairies" begins to spread too fast…"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"Briou thinks of those words of Don Juan in Molière's play: "As for me, beauty embraces me wherever I find it, and I can easily yield to the sweet violence with which it sweeps me along." He imagined …"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"Perrault likes this bit of the tale--- the pattern of it. The rhythm. He likes the shapes things make. And he likes beautiful, refined things: frescos, hyacinths, clockmakers, marzipans, butterfly wi…"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
8. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
By: Paul M.M. Cooper
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on t… read more
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- world history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- adult
9. The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era
By: Andy Martino
4.42
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
With rare access to the inner sanctum of the New York Yankees, SNY analyst Andy Martino weaves two … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
10. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
11. Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
By: Kathleen DuVal
4.46
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of the power of Indigenous North America from ancient cities to fights for sover… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- ancient history
12. Death at the Sanatorium
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic best… read more
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13. Babylonia
By: Costanza Casati
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient h… read more
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- historical
- adult
- ancient history
14. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- history
16. The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
By: Daisy Dunn
4.01
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in … read more
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- classics
- biography
- history
- world history
- historical
- feminism
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- womens
- adult
17. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more
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- historical
- classics
- adult
18. Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
By: Rachel Kousser
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to c… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
By: Dan Jones
4.61
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unpa… read more
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20. The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
By: Susannah Gibson
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life … read more
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- feminism
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- womens
