The Mammoth Book of Losers (Mammoth Books 426)
By: Karl Shaw
3.92
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
2. 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop
By: John Lloyd , John Mitchinson , James Harkin
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Time… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Full Circle
By: Michael Palin
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Michael Palin has certainly been busy since his days with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In Full Cir… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
By: Michael Farquhar
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
National Geographic and author Michael Farquhar uncover an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, a… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more
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6. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1)
By: Douglas Adams
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Mass Market Paperback
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum m… read more
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7. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
8. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
By: T.E. Kinsey
4.50
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more
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"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
9. An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle #9)
By: T.E. Kinsey
4.39
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s The… read more
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10. Rotten to the Core (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #8)
By: T.E. Kinsey
4.44
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an… read more
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11. Paranormal Nonsense (Blue Moon Investigations, #1)
By: Steve Higgs
3.98
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
If Jack Reacher was a paranormal investigator… The paranormal? It’s all nonsense but proving it mi… read more
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12. Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
By: Jared Knott
4.01
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
How often does it happen that a single tiny mistake causes an entire civilization to collapse? More… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Phantom of Barker Mill (Blue Moon Investigations, #2)
By: Steve Higgs
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Tempest Michaels never could refuse a woman in distress. The owner of Barker Steel Mill has died. … read more
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14. Fake History: From Mozart's Murder to Cleopatra's Asp
By: Graeme Donald
3.44
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Fake History is an entertaining romp through the centuries, uncovering the fundamental inaccuracies… read more
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15. Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
By: Tom Phillips
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been h… read more
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16. The Colossal Book of Incredible Facts for Curious Minds: 5,000 staggering facts on science, nature, history, movies, music, the universe and more!
By: Nigel Henbest
4.50
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A polish bear in World War II rose to the rank of colonel.Penguins can't taste fish.The ashes of th… read more
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17. Weird Medieval Guys: A Bestiary of Curious Creatures from the Dark Ages
By: Olivia Swarthout
3.85
Format: 203 pages, ebook
Live, laugh love and die in the Middle Ages with Weird Medieval Guys!Explore what your medieval lif… read more
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18. 50 People Who Messed up the World [Paperback] [Nov 09, 2017] Alexander Parker, Tim Richman
By: Alexander Parker
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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19. The Mammoth Book of Losers (Mammoth Books 426)
By: Karl Shaw
3.92
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history's most spectacularly ill-concei… read more
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20. HOW WARS BEGIN AND END a fascinating account of war by one of the UK’s most readable historians (Historical Non-Fiction Box Sets)
By: A.J.P. Taylor
3.93
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF WAR BY ONE OF THE UK’S MOST INFLUENTIAL — AND READABLE — HISTORIANS.‘The m… read more
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21. Criminal Tales: True Crimes of the 18th and 19th Centuries
By: Grahame Farrell
3.99
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Murders, trials, convictions, executions, and the occasional acquittal – these are part and parcel … read more
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