Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men
By: Dwight Longenecker
4.03
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
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1. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
By: Erik Larson
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
2. Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by … read more
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3. Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
By: C.S. Lewis
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
The Cosmic Trilogy relates the interplanetary travels of Ransom, C.S. Lewis's ill-informed and terr… read more
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4. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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- historical
5. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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6. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more
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"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
8. Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
By: Andy Hall
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Denali's Howlis the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time.… read more
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- history
9. A Fearsome Doubt (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #6)
By: Charles Todd
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author Charles Todd has earned a special place among mystery's elite writers with his a… read more
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- historical
10. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke
4.42
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
- catholic
"Love lives only by sacrifice"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
11. Homer Price
By: Robert McCloskey
4.09
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more
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"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
12. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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13. Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
By: Peter Zuckerman , Amanda Padoan
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for… read more
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14. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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15. Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible schola… read more
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16. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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- religion
"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
17. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
18. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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- nonfiction
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
19. The Lost City of the Monkey God
By: Douglas Preston
3.93
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
20. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By: Susan Cain
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more
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- nonfiction
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
21. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
22. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
23. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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- nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
24. Marilla of Green Gables
By: Sarah McCoy
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and mo… read more
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- historical
"Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
"There was power in knowledge. Like the gears of a steam engine, the more active knowledge was, the more force it produced."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
"Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
"Just take a deep breath and go on in there with your head held high. Look for good things and good things [are] what you'll find..."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
25. Unwinding Anxiety
By: Judson Brewer
3.91
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and … read more
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26. Imagine the God of Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Revelation, and the Love You’ve Always Wanted
By: John Burke
4.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Millions of people around the world have reported a near-death experience. Do they prove the existe… read more
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- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
27. Deacon King Kong
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more
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- historical
"Friendship was trouble in business."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"You’ve got to be strong to get old."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
28. The Great Adventure Catholic Bible
By: Anonymous
4.95
Format: 1608 pages, Softcover
A Catholic Bible That Also Teaches You How to Read it. Don’t just read the words of the Bible ... u… read more
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- theology
- christianity
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- nonfiction
- catholic
29. The Hidden Peace: Finding True Security, Strength, and Confidence Through Humility
By: Joel Muddamalle
4.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The peace we long for begins with coming to the end of ourselves. There are inescapable aspects of … read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
30. Forensics: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous People
By: Harry A. Milman
3.90
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
Carrie Fisher, also known as Princess Leia from Star Wars, had been abusing cocaine and other pharm… read more
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31. Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men
By: Dwight Longenecker
4.03
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
"How utterly refreshing and encouraging to read Fr. Longenecker's extraordinary ruminations on some… read more
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