Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
By: Sam Hooker
3.77
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
What terror lurks in the shadows of the Old Country? Well, there are the goblins, of course. Th…
Want to Read"Poets cut corners so often it's a wonder poetry isn't written on round paper."-Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
"Poets cut corners so often it's a wonder poetry isn't written on round paper."-Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
"Poets, most of whom live with their parents, like to think that mysterious people elude description, defying definition. They don't. Poets are just lazy."-Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
"Poets, most of whom live with their parents, like to think that mysterious people elude description, defying definition. They don't. Poets are just lazy."-Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
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1. New Boy
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.49
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring comes the fifth installment… read more
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- fiction
2. For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
By: Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor
4.37
Format: 311 pages, Audible Audio
Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was… read more
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- humor
- fantasy
- fiction
"What does kaheerakah mean?"-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
"I always wanted to be a bad influence."-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
3. Emperor of the Eight Islands (Tale of Shikanoko, #1)
By: Lian Hearn
3.58
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In the opening pages of the action-packed Book One of Lian Hearn's epic Tale of Shikanoko series, a… read more
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- fantasy
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"I am what I am and what I have always been, a poor soul on a journey."-Lian Hearn, Emperor of the Eight Islands (Tale of Shikanoko, #1)
"The bonds between husband and wife spring from deep laws of destiny and should not be broken lightly."-Lian Hearn, Emperor of the Eight Islands (Tale of Shikanoko, #1)
4. On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
By: David Weber
3.41
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station i… read more
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- fiction
5. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more
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- humor
6. Horus Rising
By: Dan Abnett
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream… read more
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- fantasy
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7. Shades of Grey
By: Jasper Fforde
4.11
Format: 559 pages,
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next-- a brilliant new novel about a world where social ord… read more
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- mystery
- humor
- fantasy
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8. The Last Namsara (Iskari, #1)
By: Kristen Ciccarelli
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
9. Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch #7)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It w… read more
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- mystery
- humor
- fantasy
- fiction
10. Gun, With Occasional Music
By: Jonathan Lethem
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kanga… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
11. Replay
By: Ken Grimwood
4.15
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Sometimes isolation can be shared."-Ken Grimwood, Replay
"He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well."-Ken Grimwood, Replay
"Someone—Plato, I think—once said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' " "True. But a life too closely scrutinized will lead to madness, if not suicide."-Ken Grimwood, Replay
"Until I die again, perhaps. Until the next replay. Then it all vanishes." Jeff shook his head, his arm tightly around her shoulders. "Only the products of your work will disappear. The struggle, the …"-Ken Grimwood, Replay
12. Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
THREE REMARKABLE JOURNEYS INTO THE STARS. These novels, Rocannon's world, Planet of Exile, and Cit… read more
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- fantasy
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13. Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of … read more
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14. Raising Steam (Discworld, #40, Moist von Lipwig #3 )
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork -… read more
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15. The Uncommon Reader
By: Alan Bennett
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more
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- humor
- fiction
"Книгите подпалват въображението."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
16. Thornhedge
By: T. Kingfisher
4.00
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
17. The Mysterious Mr. Badman
By: W.F. Harvey
3.57
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The note read: “Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Ba… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
18. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
19. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
20. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
By: Rupert Holmes
3.85
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Ru… read more
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- mystery
- humor
- fiction
"The only law I'd ever knowingly broken was white wine with steak..."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
"Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
"I'm afraid I was buried in thought. Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
"And many students can't go a week without a savory cheese tart they call a 'pizza'...."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
21. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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- humor
- fantasy
- fiction
"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
22. A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8)
By: Deanna Raybourn
4.20
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in t… read more
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23. Flight Risk (The Booking Agents, #2)
By: Cherie Priest
3.72
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
Inconsistent psychic Leda Foley and Seattle detective Grady Merritt return to solve the case of a m… read more
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- fiction
24. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more
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- mystery
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- fiction
25. The Constant Rabbit
By: Jasper Fforde
4.07
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of… read more
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- humor
- fantasy
- fiction
"She was named Jocaminca fforkes, with two small 'f's - as if having two 'f's wasn't pretentious enough"-Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit
"Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's…"-Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit
26. The Kingdoms
By: Natasha Pulley
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
27. Into the Labyrinth (Mage Errant, #1)
By: John Bierce
4.17
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
Hugh of Emblin is, so far as he's concerned, the worst student that the Academy at Skyhold has ever… read more
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28. 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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- humor
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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
29. The Prince and the Troll (Faraway Collection)
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.26
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
A charming everyman and a mysterious something-under-the-bridge cross paths in a short fairy tale b… read more
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- fiction
30. What Zombie Apocalypse?
By: Nick James
4.28
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
The dead are now walking the earth, spreading chaos and hurt throughout the land. Can Tony the Terr… read more
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31. Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
By: Sam Hooker
3.77
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
What terror lurks in the shadows of the Old Country? Well, there are the goblins, of course. Th… read more
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- mystery
- humor
- fantasy
- fiction
"Poets cut corners so often it's a wonder poetry isn't written on round paper."-Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
"Poets, most of whom live with their parents, like to think that mysterious people elude description, defying definition. They don't. Poets are just lazy."-Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country (Terribly Serious Darkness, #1)
