Along the Amber Route
By: C.J. Schüler
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award 2021 Shortlisted for the Bookmark Book Festival’s Book…
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1. Birds Without Wings
By: Louis de Bernières
4.16
Format: 554 pages, Paperback
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with … read more
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"The dead can read tears."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"Money has no religion except itself."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder"-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
2. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
By: Irving Finkel
3.96
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like wi…"-Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
"…для прочтения клинописного текста надо сначала идентифицировать определенный знак, затем понять, использован ли он как логограмма, силлабограмма, фонетический комплемент или детерминатив, и только п…"-Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
3. 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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- travel
- history
- nonfiction
4. The Radetzky March
By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more
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5. Between the Woods and the Water
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts The journey that Patrick Le… read more
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- travel
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers
By: Eça de Queirós , None
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Considered to be Portugal's finest novelist, Eca de Queiroz was a master of satire who set out to e… read more
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7. Venice
By: Jan Morris
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city. … read more
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- travel
- history
- nonfiction
8. Snow
By: Orhan Pamuk , Maureen Freely
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings - for love, art, power, and God - set in a remote Turkis… read more
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9. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
10. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
11. Nights of Plague
By: Orhan Pamuk
3.58
Format: 683 pages, Hardcover
From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a… read more
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12. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)
By: Andrey Kurkov
3.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more
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13. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)
By: Jo Callaghan
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more
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14. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
15. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- travel
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
By: Violet Moller
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledg… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The history of ideas is not constrained by boundaries of culture, religion or politics and, in order to fully appreciate it, a more far-reaching approach is needed."-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
"In 771, a traveller arrived in the city [Baghdad] with a copy of a work of Hindu astronomy called the Siddhanta (The Opening of the Universe), by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668). Unlik…"-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
17. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
18. The Birthday Party
By: Laurent Mauvignier
3.75
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more
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19. The Amur River: Between Russia And China
By: Colin Thubron
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. The Amur River is almost unk… read more
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- travel
- history
- nonfiction
20. Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more
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"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
21. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
By: Andrew Lownie
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the ab… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute."-Andrew Lownie, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
22. Troubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea (Armchair Traveller)
By: Jens Mühling
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live … read more
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- travel
- history
- nonfiction
23. Abigail
By: Magda Szabó
4.33
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of … read more
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24. These Days
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.71
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more
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25. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
By: Katja Oskamp
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more
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"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
26. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
27. The Fairy Tellers
By: Nicholas Jubber
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Fairy-tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us somethin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe
By: Tharik Hussain
3.84
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
A magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in dang… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
30. Along the Amber Route
By: C.J. Schüler
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award 2021 Shortlisted for the Bookmark Book Festival’s Book… read more
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31. Kronosova žetev
By: Mojca Kumerdej
3.90
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
Kronosova žetev je roman o koncu 16. stoletja, ko je v notranjeavstrijskih deželah, torej na območj… read more
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