Juan Carlos: El Rey de un Pueblo
By: Paul Preston
3.90
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hay dos misterios centrales en la vida de Juan Carlos, uno personal, el otro político. ¿Cómo explic…
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1. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
2. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.35
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the ci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. The Overcoat
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.15
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more
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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
4. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
5. Poet in New York
By: Federico García Lorca , Greg Simon , Steven F. White
4.10
Format: 668 pages, Paperback
Written while Federico Garcia Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New Yo… read more
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- spain
6. The Insulted and Humiliated
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshado… read more
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7. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
By: Agatha Christie
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgewa… read more
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"... nu trecutul conteaza, ci viitorul."-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
"It is not the past that matters,but the future"-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
"Because I am Hercule Poirot, I do not need to be told."-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
"Ah, but people don't run true to form in love affairs."-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
8. Las tres heridas
By: Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ernesto, un escritor siempre a la busqueda de su gran obra, encuentra una antigua caja de laton que… read more
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9. Freedom
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.78
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more
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"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
10. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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11. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
By: Michio Kaku
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us… read more
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12. A Tale of Love and Darkness
By: Amos Oz , Nicholas de Lange
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magic… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar."-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, "Jews go home to Palestine." Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, "Jews get out of Pa…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. Tha…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you c…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
13. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
14. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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15. Paula
By: Isabel Allende
3.94
Format: 229 pages,
Paula es el libro mas conmovedor, mas personal y mas intimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en qu… read more
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16. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
17. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
18. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
19. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
22. Yo, Julia (Julia Domna, #1)
By: Santiago Posteguillo
4.34
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
192 d.C. Varios hombres luchan por un imperio, pero Julia, hija de reyes, madre de césares y esposa… read more
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- spain
23. Crossroads
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.06
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more
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"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
24. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
25. La sospecha de Sofía
By: Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
4.31
Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition
La anodina vida de Sofía y Daniel cambia radicalmente cuando él recibe una carta anónima en la que … read more
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"La gente que lee puede ser muy peligrosa para aquellos que pretenden el pensamiento único. La lectura es el germen de toda revolución."-Paloma Sánchez-Garnica, La sospecha de Sofía
26. Sira
By: María Dueñas
3.88
Format: 648 pages, Hardcover
Cuatro destinos. Dos misiones. Una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Despu… read more
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- spain
27. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
By: David Van Reybrouck
4.54
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
28. How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. Aquitania
By: Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
1137. El duque de Aquitania ―la región más codiciada de Francia― aparece muerto en Compostela. El c… read more
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- spain
"Ganar no es nada, disfrutar de la victoria y de sus beneficios lo es todo"-Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Aquitania
"El genio que no practica se queda en promesa precoz y en adulto frustrado."-Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Aquitania
"En esto consiste la literatura y en esto consiste la vida: en seguir. Siempre."-Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Aquitania
"Y no, no quiero renunciar a conspirar porque no nací para ser mansa y olvidar agravios, y no quiero la muerte de mis enemigos, quiero su derrota en vida."-Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Aquitania
30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
31. Juan Carlos: El Rey de un Pueblo
By: Paul Preston
3.90
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hay dos misterios centrales en la vida de Juan Carlos, uno personal, el otro político. ¿Cómo explic… read more
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- politics
- spain
- biography memoir
- spanish history
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