Wellington: The Years of the Sword
By: Elizabeth Harman Pakenham Longford
4.01
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
For most of us Wellington equals Waterloo. But Waterloo was one peak only in the career of this phe…
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By: Justin Cronin
4.21
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
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"Who is the monster now?"-Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
"All things found their ends."-Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
"City of memories, city of mirrors."-Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
"The heart, once broken, stayed broken."-Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
2. The Passage (The Passage, #1)
By: Justin Cronin
4.05
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
IT HAPPENED FAST. THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN. First, the unthi… read more
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3. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.12
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more
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"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
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By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more
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"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
5. The Buried Giant
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more
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"Are you still there, Axl?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
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4.09
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
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8. The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
By: Justin Cronin
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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10. Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)
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4.25
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11. Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters
By: Mark Urban
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
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12. A Banquet of Consequences (Inspector Lynley, #19)
By: Elizabeth George
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara H… read more
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13. Star Island (Skink, #6)
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.54
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14. Liberty! The American Revolution
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3.57
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15. Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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4.65
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16. War and Peace
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4.16
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In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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3.84
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4.24
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19. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
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4.34
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20. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
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21. Slough House (Slough House, #7)
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4.41
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"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
22. Redemption (Amos Decker, #5)
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Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly… read more
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23. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
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A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more
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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
24. Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East
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4.18
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"Pacy and enthralling." ― Financial Times "Tells the story brilliantly." ―Senator Joseph I. Lieber… read more
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25. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
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26. The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)
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27. The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves
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28. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
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29. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
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A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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30. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
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Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
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31. Wellington: The Years of the Sword
By: Elizabeth Harman Pakenham Longford
4.01
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
For most of us Wellington equals Waterloo. But Waterloo was one peak only in the career of this phe… read more
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