Shame of Motley, The
By: Rafael Sabatini
3.79
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Memoir of Certain Transactions in the Life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime Foo…
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1. The Man in the Brown Suit
By: Agatha Christie
3.95
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—a… read more
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"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
"You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever."-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
"I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first."-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
"But his face should really inspire you with confidence, my dear lady. No self-respecting murderer would ever consent to look like one. Crippen now, I believe was one of the pleasantest fellows imagin…"-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
2. The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Medieval monk Brother Cadfael races to save a young man he believes is falsely accused of robbery—i… read more
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3. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more
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"Perhaps thought really is prayer."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
4. The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
By: Ellis Peters
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a … read more
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5. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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6. The Prisoner of Zenda
By: Anthony Hope
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from… read more
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7. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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8. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
By: Helene Wecker
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more
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9. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more
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10. Mrs Craddock
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
It is the end of the 19th century and Victoria's reign is coming to an end. It is also the end of a… read more
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11. Swimming Home
By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more
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12. 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
13. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
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"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
14. The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.26
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal a… read more
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"I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,"-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"I don't believe he was as bad as you make him sound. Igraine protested. No, I think he was worse."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
15. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
By: Ellis Peters
4.39
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael... A Morbid Taste for… read more
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16. Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
By: Zane Grey , None
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Lassiter is a gunslinger, an avenger in black. In a remote Utah town, he saves beautiful rancher Ja… read more
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"I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him."-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
"Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet."-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
"So that's troublin' you? I reckon it needn't. You see it was this way. I come round the house an' seen that fat party an' heard him talkin' loud. Then he seen me, an' very impolite goes straight for …"-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
"While she waited there she forgot the prospect of untoward change. The bray of a lazy burro broke the afternoon quiet, and it was comfortingly suggestive of the drowsy farmyard, and the open corrals,…"-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
17. Chivalry
By: Rafael Sabatini
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Columbino, a great mercenary in pre-Renaissance Italy, has developed his own moral code of chivalry… read more
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18. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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19. Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
By: Ellis Peters
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The year is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. When the sheriff of Shropshire is taken prisoner,… read more
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20. The Romantic Prince
By: Rafael Sabatini
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Prince Anthony d'Egmont preserves the ideals of chivalry in this historical novel set in the time o… read more
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21. The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)
By: Ellis Peters
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The fourth anniversary of the transfer of Saint Winifred's bones to the Abbey at Shrewsbury is a ti… read more
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22. Silverview
By: John Le Carré
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more
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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."-John Le Carré, Silverview
"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"-John Le Carré, Silverview
23. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
24. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
By: Ellis Peters
4.07
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H… read more
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- fiction
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"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to r…"-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one ma…"-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
25. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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- historical fiction
"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
26. Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
Silver Dagger Award Winner: In this medieval mystery, Brother Cadfael faces suspicion when one of h… read more
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- fiction
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"Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint."-Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
27. Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
By: Ellis Peters
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
In the twelfth century, merchants gather at a summertime fair—but when one of them is found dead in… read more
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- fiction
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"Child, [death] is with us always,"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
"There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings a…"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
28. The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
By: A.J. Hackwith
3.82
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors re… read more
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"The best stories are bled."-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
"Nothing burns up humanity as thoroughly as eternity."-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
"Beat an archangel, divert war, save our souls. Simple as that?"-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
"Build good fences, make good friends, and keep your laundry indoors."-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
29. The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
By: Ellis Peters
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
October 1139. A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage set to take place at Brother Cadfael… read more
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- fiction
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"Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)"-Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
"I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians."-Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
30. Shame of Motley, The
By: Rafael Sabatini
3.79
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Memoir of Certain Transactions in the Life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime Foo… read more
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