The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
By: Christopher de Hamel
4.02
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most f…
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1. The Ghost
By: Robert Harris
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii … read more
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"Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider a…"-Robert Harris, The Ghost
2. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
By: Douglas Adams
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu o… read more
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"Fuck ’em,"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
3. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
4. Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
By: Gerard Russell
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distincti… read more
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5. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more
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- religion
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6. 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 goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it 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
7. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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8. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- art
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9. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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10. Conclave
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more
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11. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
12. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme
By: None
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
Was Little Jack Horner a squatter? Baa Baa Black Sheep a bleat about taxation? What did Jack and Ji… read more
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13. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more
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14. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
15. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.03
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more
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"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
16. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
17. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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- history
18. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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19. Beren and Lúthien
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.04
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmaril… read more
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"And then he turned, and did not weep: too dark his heart, the wound too deep."-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
"Thou smellest of dog, and what news of good came ever to a cat from a fairy that had had dealings with the dogs?"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
"Rivers of fire at dead of night in winter lying cold and white upon the plain burst forth, and high the red was mirrored in the sky."-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
"The slow time passed. Then in the gloom two eyes there glowed. He saw his doom, Beren, silent, as his bonds he strained beyond mortal might enchained. Lo! sudden there was rending sound of chains tha…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
20. The Lion House
By: Christopher de Bellaigue
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Venice, 1522. Twenty-three men in robes of scarlet and blue assemble to hear the most sensitive int… read more
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"The trouble with big empires is that the enemy is far away and there is weather in between."-Christopher de Bellaigue, The Lion House
21. The World: A Family History of Humanity
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.00
Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more
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- history
22. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.05
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more
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23. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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- history
24. The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story
By: Dan Jones
3.45
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. Published in a beautifu… read more
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25. The Mitford Scandal (Mitford Murders, #3)
By: Jessica Fellowes
3.70
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
In the third book in the Mitford Murders series, lady's maid Louisa Cannon accompanies Diana Mitfor… read more
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26. Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England
By: Michael Livingston
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not h… read more
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- nonfiction
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27. The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets
By: Janine Di Giovanni
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egy… read more
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- religion
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28. The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
By: Christopher de Hamel
4.02
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most f… read more
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- books about books
29. The Capital of Hope: Brasilia and Its People
By: Alex Shoumatoff
3.21
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
Tells the story of the creation of the city of Brasilia, and profiles the lives of its inhabitants read more
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