The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft
By: Peter Bellerby
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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1. 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
- nonfiction
- history
2. For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
By: Sarah Rose
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the E… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. The Lost Continent
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.97
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
The Lost Continent is one of the least-known of Burroughs' thrilling science-fiction tales. In the … read more
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4. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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5. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
6. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
7. Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
By: Rebecca Struthers
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the inv… read more
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- audiobook
- art
- history
- nonfiction
- science
"Gli orologi non creano il tempo, ma ne misurano la nostra percezione culturale."-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"La natura è stata il nostro primo orologio e continua a scandire il tempo per coloro che se ne accorgono. Sono state la convivenza e la frequentazione diretta con la natura a far sì che l’umanità svi…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"Il concetto di tempo è inseparabile dalla nostra cultura. Nella lingua inglese, per esempio, la parola time (tempo) è la più usata. Nelle culture occidentali e capitaliste è qualcosa che abbiamo o no…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
8. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
9. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
11. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
12. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
By: Patrick Horvath
4.21
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphi… read more
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13. The Titanic Survivors Book Club
By: Timothy Schaffert
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more
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- audiobook
"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club
14. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- business
- audiobook
15. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
17. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
By: Brad Meltzer
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the origi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. 42 Reasons to Hate the Universe: (And One Reason Not To)
By: Chris Ferrie
3.95
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you… you were right! Yes, the universe we l… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
By: Rowenna Miller
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
"A warm-hearted yet fierce fairy tale."―H. G. Parry In the early 1900s, two sisters must navigat… read more
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- audiobook
"Mama, is that Aunt Eula’s chicken recipe?"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
" Where flowers bloom And leaves are ever green Fortune’s winds are shifting By fairy touch unseen —Folk song"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
" Set the table, china fine Acorn cup and dewdrop wine Crumbs of cake, berries wild High tea for Fae beguiled --- Children's rhyme"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
" Here's to thee, old apple-tree, To buds in the spring and roots in the loam, To the Fae who brings the apples home. ---Wassail song"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
21. 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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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- geography
- audiobook
"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
22. That Night in the Library
By: Eva Jurczyk
2.70
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One night locked in the library. What could go wrong? On the night before graduation, seven stud… read more
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23. Shadows of Berlin
By: David R. Gillham
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brookly… read more
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24. The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
By: Tom Burgis
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
A true story about Cuckooland – a world where the rich can buy everything – including the truth. … read more
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- audiobook
26. The Book Swap
By: Tessa Bickers
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“A love letter to books and reading. This debut is catnip for any book geek. I just loved it.” —Ces… read more
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27. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- business
- audiobook
28. The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
By: Adam Nimoy
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Living with Dad was like living with a stranger—as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relatin… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft
By: Peter Bellerby
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Bellerby's tale of learning how to fashion worlds-a journey through history, science, craft,… read more
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- science
- business
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- geography
- maps
- audiobook
30. How the Tricolor Got Its Stripes: And Other Stories About Flags
By: Dmytro Dubilet
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
'A sparkling tour through the stories of the symbols we know so well' - Tim MarshallStarting with f… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud's Talking Cure
By: Gabriel Brownstein
3.73
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a patient who changed the world, and the mystery of her illness. In 1880, young Bertha… read more
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