La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
By: Francis Parkman
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World,…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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2. David Crockett: The Lion of the West
By: Michael Wallis
3.75
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultura… read more
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3. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
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4. Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
By: Eugene B. Fluckey
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew memb… read more
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5. The Long Home
By: William Gay
4.04
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of… read more
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"Down fabled roads reverting now to woods Winer felt himself imprisoned by the dark beyond the carlights and by the compulsive timbre of Motormouth's voice, a drone obsessed with spewing out words wit…"-William Gay, The Long Home
"In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming throug…"-William Gay, The Long Home
6. Ragged Lake (Frank Yakabuski, #1)
By: Joanna D'angelo , Ron Corbett
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried past While working one afternoon on the Northern … read more
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7. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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8. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
9. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
By: Nick Bilton
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more
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"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
10. The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12)
By: Ian Rankin
3.92
Format: 256 pages,
Edinburgh police detective John Rebus, Ian Rankin's popular series detective, is a brilliantly real… read more
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11. A Question of Blood (Inspector Rebus, #14)
By: Ian Rankin
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding sch… read more
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12. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
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13. Legion of the Damned
By: Sven Hassel
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
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14. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
By: M.R. James , James McBride , E.F. Bleiler
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Can… read more
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15. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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16. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)
By: James Lee Burke
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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17. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
By: Ian W. Toll
4.76
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more
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18. Mission Road (Frank Yakabuski, #3)
By: Ron Corbett
4.27
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Edgar Award- and Arthur Ellis Award- nominated author of Ragged Lake comes the third insta… read more
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19. Commerce of the Prairies
By: Josiah Gregg
4.03
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
'a classic in the literature of Western history' Josiah A. Gregg, an experienced trader on the plai… read more
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20. Cape Diamond (Frank Yakabuski, #2)
By: Ron Corbett
4.02
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
By: Francis Parkman
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World,… read more
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