Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
By: Aminata Conteh-Biger
4.28
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
By: Thomas Cathcart , Daniel Klein
3.76
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions… read more
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"The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30."-Thomas Cathcart, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
"Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pu…"-Thomas Cathcart, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
2. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
By: Lee Smolin , Henry Reich
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of ti… read more
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3. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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5. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more
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6. The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private… read more
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7. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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8. Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga [Publication] #5.1-5.3)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
Limited edition volume. Contents: Frame story that follows Miles' time on Earth in Brothers in Arms… read more
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9. 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
- audiobook
10. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
11. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
12. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- audiobook
13. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
By: Anita Heiss
4.17
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more
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- audiobook
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
14. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
By: David de Jong
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more
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- biography
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15. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms
By: Richard Fidler
4.11
Format: 448 pages, ebook
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. The Sunday Lunch Club
By: Juliet Ashton
3.90
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The first rule of Sunday Lunch Club is … don't make any afternoon plans. Every few Sundays, Ann… read more
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18. Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation
By: Stefanie Schaffer
4.61
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Without Any Warning is a first-hand account of the accident that changed Stefanie Schaffer’s life—b… read more
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19. History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach
By: Gregory S. Aldrete
3.91
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 12 hours and 12 minutes Military history often highlights successes and sugges… read more
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20. The Sunday Story Club
By: Doris Brett
3.50
Format: None pages, ebook
'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cry. But the salons have given me the opportunity to look back and thi… read more
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21. In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Tempur-Pedic
By: Alison Espach
3.62
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
In this at-once hilarious and heartbreaking series, In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead P… read more
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22. The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
By: Keith Cooper
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inside the difficult questions about humanity's search for extraterrestrial intelligence. What wil… read more
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23. Frankie
By: Graham Norton
4.53
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more
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24. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
25. The Crag
By: Claire Sutherland
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Will the mountain give up its secrets? While walking on an isolated track in the windswept Wimmera,… read more
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26. The Accidental War (Dread Empire's Fall #4)
By: Walter Jon Williams
3.94
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a r… read more
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27. The Ledge
By: Christian White
4.39
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more
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28. Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
By: Aminata Conteh-Biger
4.28
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
'The best and the worst of our shared humanity...breathtaking and heartbreaking.' The Hon. Dame Que… read more
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29. Opal (DS Walker #3)
By: Patricia Wolf
4.23
Format: None pages, ebook
A small mining town. A brutal double murder. A killer among them. DS Lucas Walker is off duty. H… read more
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30. The Fallen Woman
By: Fiona McIntosh
4.42
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Botanical artist Jane Saville is devastated when her manipulative mother banishes her to the countr… read more
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31. The Season
By: Helen Garner
4.36
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She no… read more
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