The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures
By: Michael D. Coogan
3.96
Format: 600 pages, Paperback
Lucidly written by a leading biblical scholar, this balanced, engaging, and up-to-date introduction…
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1. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
By: Yuval Levin
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
By: John Dominic Crossan , Marcus J. Borg
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan reveal a radical & little-known Jesus. As … read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- theology
5. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
6. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
7. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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- school
"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
8. The Holy Bible: King James Version
By: Anonymous
4.44
Format: 1590 pages, Hardcover
Biblija ili Sveto pismo jest zbirka knjiga koje Hebreji i kršćani na svoj način smatraju svetima. D… read more
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- history
- theology
- religion
- nonfiction
- reference
"Not my will, but thine, be done."-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
"We live by faith and not by sight."-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
"I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine."-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
"If God is for us, who can be against us?"-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
9. Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
By: N.T. Wright
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Simply Jesus , bestselling author and leading Bible scholar N.T. Wright summarizes 200 years of … read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- theology
"Layer upon layer it comes, dense and rich within the texts, echo upon echo, allusion and resonance tumbling over one another, so that for those with ears to hear it becomes un-missable, a crescendo o…"-N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
10. The Two Princesses of Bamarre
By: Gail Carson Levine
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of … read more
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11. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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12. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
By: Justo L. González
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more
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13. People of Darkness (Leaphorn & Chee, #4)
By: Tony Hillerman
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wi… read more
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14. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
16. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By: Anthea Butler
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
17. Wholehearted Faith
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.42
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith
"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith
18. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- theology
19. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
20. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
By: Nathalia Holt
3.88
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
22. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
24. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
By: Melody Beattie
4.13
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to un… read more
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- nonfiction
"We work it out, or live it out."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
25. The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)
By: Sara Ella
4.18
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Solve the clues. Face your fears. Survive the Trials. All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her N… read more
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"How is the world inside your mind any less real than the one outside it?"-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)
"Wonderland is what we imagine it to be, he says. You can become anything. Go anywhere. That's the magic of the Gene."-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)
"But it is when we are not ourselves that believing in the impossible - in the unseen - becomes most vital. We must believe in something beyond you or I."-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)
26. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
28. Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
By: Jenny Lawson
4.03
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happe… read more
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- nonfiction
"Only monsters call when they could text."-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
"Nothing lasts forever. The good and the bad."-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
"My doctor nodded. “I think you’ll be fine no matter what,"-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
"I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel."-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
29. An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.09
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
In this book Walter Brueggemann, America's premier biblical theologian, introduces the reader to th… read more
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- theology
- old testament
- religion
- nonfiction
- reference
"In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly craf…"-Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
30. Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
By: Gail Carson Levine
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and … read more
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"Love shouldn't be dictated"-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
"If I couldn't sleep, I could read."-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
"I want to be with you forever and beyond..."-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
"Amor (qué placer escribir esta palabra), amor, amor..."-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
31. The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures
By: Michael D. Coogan
3.96
Format: 600 pages, Paperback
Lucidly written by a leading biblical scholar, this balanced, engaging, and up-to-date introduction… read more
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