The Soaring Life of the Lark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.76
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."Skylarks are t…
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1. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.18
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingd… read more
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"Do you understand what’s going on here?"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time,"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Hah! The leopard does not change his shorts, my girl!"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
2. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more
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3. Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... ... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded … read more
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"I AM IMPRESSED. “I have faith."-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
"You know, you're rather amusingly wrong."-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
"-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere."-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
"Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost"-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
4. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
5. Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch #7)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It w… read more
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6. Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the tra… read more
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7. Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of … read more
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8. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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9. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
10. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
11. Reputation
By: Lex Croucher
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The hilarious debut novel from Lex Croucher. A classic romcom with a Regency-era twist, for fans of… read more
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12. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
13. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
14. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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15. Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein
By: Anne Eekhout
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley’… read more
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16. The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence
By: Neil Ansell
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has … read more
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- nature
"The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self."-Neil Ansell, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence
17. Ghosts in the Hedgerow: A Hedgehog Whodunnit
By: Tom Moorhouse
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A body lies motionless on the ground. Small, with a snouty head and covered with spines, it is unqu… read more
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18. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
By: Tom Bullough
3.98
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more
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19. Murder at the Ritz (Hotel Mysteries, #1)
By: Jim Eldridge
3.92
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
August 1940. On the streets of London, locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes p… read more
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20. Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens
By: Arthur Parkinson
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
I am a toddler the first time I meet a chicken, and we are equal in size and height. The hen has ti… read more
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21. The Soaring Life of the Lark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.76
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."Skylarks are t… read more
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