The Gulf War, 1990-91 (Twentieth Century Wars, 8)
By: William Thomas Allison
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces boldly invaded and occupied neighboring Kuwait. It wa…
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1. Sputnik Sweetheart
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.83
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more
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"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
2. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a … read more
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"Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Co…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
3. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
By: S.C. Gwynne
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Mooncomes a thri… read more
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4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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5. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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6. The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.57
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime … read more
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"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)
"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)
"Never is too long a word even for me..."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)
"What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)
7. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.25
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in th… read more
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8. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
9. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
10. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
11. The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
By: Ichiro Kishimi
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our re… read more
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"All you can do in regard to your own life is choose the best path that you believe in."-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?"-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy."-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"Look, no matter how much you want to be Y, you cannot be reborn as him. You are not Y. It's okay for you to be you. However, I am not saying it's fine to be 'just as you are'. If you are unable to re…"-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
12. First Person Singular: Stories
By: Haruki Murakami
3.54
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
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"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"It’s important in life to get used to losing."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
13. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
14. Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
By: Michael J. Knowles
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
In Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds Knowles writes: How the “free speech absolutist… read more
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15. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.19
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the… read more
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16. The Gulf War, 1990-91 (Twentieth Century Wars, 8)
By: William Thomas Allison
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces boldly invaded and occupied neighboring Kuwait. It wa… read more
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