The Games That Weren't
By: Frank Gasking
4.11
Format: 644 pages, ebook
Now larger than both the movie and music industries combined, the video game industry has provided …
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1. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more
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"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
2. Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too… read more
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3. Adventures in the Screen Trade
By: William Goldman
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-wi… read more
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4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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5. Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their w… read more
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6. The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A shivering of worlds. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense i… read more
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7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
By: Kevin Eastman
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks o… read more
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8. チェンソーマン 11 [Chainsaw Man 11]
By: Tatsuki Fujimoto
4.53
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
残酷で無慈悲なマキマの支配が、デンジを追い詰める!! 大切なものを奪い尽くされ、糞詰まっていく心──そんなデンジの耳に響く“チェンソーマン”を呼ぶ声…!! かくしてデンジとマキマは血みどろの荒野で殺… read more
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"I think... It would be good to erase boring movies from existence. Hmm... Then I've got no choice but to kill you."-Tatsuki Fujimoto, チェンソーマン 11 [Chainsaw Man 11]
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9. チェンソーマン 10 [Chainsaw Man 10]
By: Tatsuki Fujimoto
4.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
俺がアキを──決して拭い去れない絶望に脳が糞になったデンジは、マキマに救いを求める。だが、一時の安息は更なる悪夢の始まりに過ぎなかった…。デンジの心の禁断の“扉”が開く時、マキマの真の思惑とチェンソ… read more
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10. Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
By: Scott Lynch
4.25
Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition
Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 31-Jul-2007. After a brutal b… read more
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"Ah,"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
"Mizzenmast,"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
"Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
"You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
11. Saga, Volume 8
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.46
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions… read more
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"Welcome to Abortion Town!"-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Is this some kind of kinky thrupple thing? Because I'm not necessarily opposed."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"I´ve held you in my heart since the day you left me. But you´re too heavy to carry another step. And I need to keep moving."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
12. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
13. SPY×FAMILY 6
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.41
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
戦時下の機密文書の手がかりを求め、非合法な大会に参戦する黄昏と夜帷!! だが、自分こそが妻役にふさわしいとロイドを隠れ慕う夜帷によって、フォージャー家に夫婦の危機が…!? read more
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14. SPY×FAMILY 5
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.43
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
予知犬のボンドが家族に加わり、オペレーション〈梟（ストリクス）〉もフォージャー家もようやく軌道に乗ったと思われた――が、中間考査でアーニャ史上最大のピンチ!? 星（ステラ）と雷（トニト）をかけた波乱… read more
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"Knowledge is a swole chihuahua?"-Tatsuya Endo, SPY×FAMILY 5
15. SPY×FAMILY 7
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.38
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
黄昏は標的・デズモンドと次男・ダミアンの親子の時間に割り込む形で、ついにデズモンドとの初接触を果たす!! 腹の内を見せない標的に対し、会話の中で人となりを探ろうとする黄昏だが…!? read more
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16. SPY×FAMILY 3
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.51
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
フォージャー家にヨルの弟・ユーリが来訪!! 互いがスパイと秘密警察であることを隠しながら、黄昏とユーリは腹を探り合う。姉を偏愛するユーリは黄昏に本物の夫婦であることを証明しろと迫り…!? read more
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17. SPY×FAMILY 4
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.55
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
爆弾犬を使っての西国大臣暗殺計画が判明! アーニャの飼う犬を求め家族で出かけたはずが、黄昏は、テロを止める緊急作戦に加わる事に…!! 一方アーニャは、何故かフォージャー家を知る不思議な犬と出会い――… read more
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18. SPY×FAMILY 8
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.52
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
東国の秘密組織「ガーデン」の任務で、ヨルは豪華客船に乗り込みマフィアの要人を護衛する事に！ ロイドとアーニャも旅行で同船している上、ヨルは裏の仕事に迷いが生じ!? read more
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19. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
20. Harleen
By: Stjepan Šejić
4.53
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the … read more
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"Dr. Quinn.. No joke. I'd love to see you smile one day."-Stjepan Šejić, Harleen
"And that was it. He needed me. This scarred, broken man needed me... And I wanted to be there for him. I wanted to smile for him... I needed to."-Stjepan Šejić, Harleen
21. The Woman in the Purple Skirt
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more
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22. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
23. Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
By: Susie Dent
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordina… read more
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- nonfiction
24. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
By: Katie Mack
4.26
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look—in th… read more
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"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
25. SPY×FAMILY 9
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.45
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
ヨルvs暗殺者集団の戦いは終局へ…!! その一方で、豪華客船には爆弾が仕掛けられていた――！ 危機を察知したロイドとアーニャは、それぞれ尽力するが…!? read more
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26. The CRPG Book Project - Expanded Edition
By: Felipe Pepe
4.43
Format: 680 pages, ebook
The CRPG Book Project is a collaborative, non-profit effort to create a free and easily available e… read more
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- gaming
- games
- nonfiction
- video games
27. The Secret History of Mac Gaming
By: Richard Moss
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Macintosh challenged games to be more than child’s play and quick reflexes. It made human–compu… read more
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- video games
28. Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-’Em-Ups
By: Bitmap Books
4.76
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Get ready for the fight of your life in Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-’Em-… read more
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- games
- nonfiction
- video games
29. The Games That Weren't
By: Frank Gasking
4.11
Format: 644 pages, ebook
Now larger than both the movie and music industries combined, the video game industry has provided … read more
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- gaming
- games
- nonfiction
- video games
30. The Art of the Box - The best in video game cover art
By: Bitmap Books
4.50
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
"Celebrating a more innocent time when purchasing decisions were often influenced by the quality of… read more
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