The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language
By: Peter Martin
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first defi…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
By: Genevieve Cogman
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently... Irene is a professi… read more
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3. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.84
Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more
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"But if you were investigating a crime,"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
4. The Pursuit of Love
By: Nancy Mitford
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more
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5. All Things Wise and Wonderful
By: James Herriot
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Readers adored James Herriot's tales o… read more
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6. The Tao of Pooh
By: Benjamin Hoff , Ernest H. Shepard
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Wisdom of Pooh. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and th… read more
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"I think, therefore I am... confused."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world"-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
7. Goldie Vance Volume 1
By: Hope Larson , Brittney Williams
4.67
Format: 127 pages,
GOLDIE VANCE IS ON THE CASE Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance has an insatiable curiosity. S… read more
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8. Under the Greenwood Tree
By: Thomas Hardy
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under the Greenwood Treeis the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dew… read more
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9. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)
By: Richard Chizmar
3.78
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more
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10. Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
By: Seanan McGuire
3.80
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Acr… read more
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"We have always held the land above the one who rules it."-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
"Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens."-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
"I can be beautiful and limited at the same time...There's nothing wrong with being limited, as long as you have people around to make sure those limitations don't get you hurt"-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
"Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change"-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
11. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
13. The Expert System's Brother (Expert System, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.93
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching … read more
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14. The Paris Bookseller
By: Kerri Maher
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the mo… read more
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"Censorship is not commensurate with democracy. Or art."-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller
"Anyone who read that much, had to be given to empathy."-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller
"Cu cât experiențele sunt mai interesante, cu atât atragi oameni mai interesanți."-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller
"Not every star is like the étoile polar, chérie. Some are more elusive, more subtle. But they are no less brilliant, no less important."-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller
15. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
By: Kikuko Tsumura
3.60
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more
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"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
16. Never Fall for Your Fiancée (The Merriwell Sisters, #1)
By: Virginia Heath
3.56
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
The first in a new historical rom-com series, a handsome earl hires a fake fiancée to keep his matc… read more
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17. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
18. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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19. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
By: Jami Attenberg
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more
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20. The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the… read more
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"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"All words are made up," I said. "That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
21. The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language
By: Peter Martin
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first defi… read more
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