Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
By: Anna Beer
3.87
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, …
Want to Read $ 12.99"Typically, Walter found a good motto for himself: Nec mortem peto, nec finem fugio (I neither seek out death, nor flee from the end)."-Anna Beer, Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
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1. The Ghost
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3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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"Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
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"What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider a…"-Robert Harris, The Ghost
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Fragments
By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton
4.18
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more
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"All is flux"-James Hillman, Fragments
"Character is destiny"-James Hillman, Fragments
"I went in search of myself."-James Hillman, Fragments
"Man's character is his fate."-James Hillman, Fragments
4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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5. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
By: Buddy Levy
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Conquistadorcomes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest … read more
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6. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
7. Casino
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4.09
Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From the author of the best-selling Mafia expose, Wiseguy, comes this inside story of the billion-d… read more
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8. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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By: Michael Crichton
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
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By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz
3.75
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4.12
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12. Homeric Hymns
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4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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13. The Runaway Jury
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3.90
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Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco… read more
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3.22
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Behind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing d… read more
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15. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
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4.29
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16. Tudor: The Family Story
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4.50
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17. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.16
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"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
18. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.67
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30. Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
By: Anna Beer
3.87
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, … read more
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"Typically, Walter found a good motto for himself: Nec mortem peto, nec finem fugio (I neither seek out death, nor flee from the end)."-Anna Beer, Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
