Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
By: Dave Williams
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational, uplifting, and life-affirming memoir about passion, resilience and living life to…
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1. Kingdom of Darkness (Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase, #10)
By: Andy McDermott
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The last survivors of history's most evil regime have been hiding out in a remote corner of the glo… read more
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2. The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosa… read more
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"better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother"-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
"I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
"Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
"The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
3. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917
By: Ernest Shackleton
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shack… read more
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4. Ragged Company
By: Richard Wagamese
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Four chronically homeless people-Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger-seek refuge in a wa… read more
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5. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
By: Chris Hadfield
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours … read more
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6. All the President’s Men
By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein
4.18
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the stor… read more
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"The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the hist…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment c…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, p…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one …"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
7. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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8. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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9. The Seven Crystal Balls (Tintin, #13)
By: Hergé
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Seven Crystal Balls begins on a light note, as Captain Haddock tries to adjust to his new life … read more
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10. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
11. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
By: Robert Kurson
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first jo… read more
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12. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
By: Jane Goodall
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more
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"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
13. Akin
By: Emma Donoghue
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the … read more
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14. Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
By: Michael A. Singer
4.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer—autho… read more
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15. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
By: Mary Childs
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inv… read more
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16. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
17. "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
4.14
Format: 304 pages, ebook
THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling … read more
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18. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
By: Gwen Strauss
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine… read more
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19. Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player
By: Fred Sasakamoose
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to… read more
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20. Broken Man on a Halifax Pier
By: Lesley Choyce
3.92
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
A tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers. Fifty-five-year-old Charl… read more
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21. Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
By: Dave Williams
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational, uplifting, and life-affirming memoir about passion, resilience and living life to… read more
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