Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language
By: Simon Horobin
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade t…
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1. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
By: Chris Grabenstein
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times BestsellerKyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teac… read more
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"Knowledge not shared remains unknown"-Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
2. First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.02
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
It's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a diffi… read more
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"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
"Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?"-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
"Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
"Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations."-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
3. Sodom and Gomorrah
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock
4.33
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more
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"He lives at Balbec?"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختناش مشکلتر است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازهای برخوردا میکند"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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5. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By: Gregory A. Freeman
4.36
Format: None pages,
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified docume… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
By: Eric Barker
4.11
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Ba… read more
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7. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des … read more
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8. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
By: Cory Franklin
3.57
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more
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9. Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
By: Jasper Fforde
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swind… read more
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10. London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World
By: Robert O. Bucholz
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Audiobook
No city has had as powerful and as enduring an impact on Western civilization as London. But what m… read more
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11. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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12. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
By: Robert Wright
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among th… read more
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13. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
14. The Boy at the Back of the Class
By: Onjali Q. Raúf
4.39
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Told with humor and heart, 'THE BOY AT THE BACK OF THE CLASS' offers a child's perspective on the r… read more
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"Sometimes all you really need is somewhere to cry without anyone ever knowing."-Onjali Q. Raúf, The Boy at the Back of the Class
15. The Book Eaters
By: Sunyi Dean
3.64
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain al… read more
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"None of us are truly good,"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"How did one give shape to absence? Fill a black hole with light?"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"Love has no cost for our children. Living or dead, here or gone."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"I am not those people and I’m also not me. I can’t ever be me, I’m too full of other lives."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
16. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
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"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
17. The Last Chance Library
By: Freya Sampson
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts a… read more
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18. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
19. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
20. Summer Reading
By: Jenn McKinlay
3.48
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making f… read more
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21. A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
By: Laura Taylor Namey
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Love & Gelato meets Don’t Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl… read more
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"there? Emotion burns my throat."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
"It’s just too bloody hard. For now, let our time here be our moment."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
"yes. I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
"I know what it feels like to fall in love. But I’m not sure what falling out of love feels like."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
22. Love at First Book
By: Jenn McKinlay
4.03
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing … read more
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23. Your Life Has Been Delayed
By: Michelle I. Mason
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Past and present, friends and crushes collide in a YA debut about a girl who takes off on a flight … read more
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24. Wearing My Mother's Heart
By: Sophia Thakur
3.97
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful new collection of poems about what i… read more
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25. What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.76
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed Louis XIV rul… read more
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26. Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained
By: Scientific American
3.77
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
The editors of Scientific American’s best-selling eBook, "Fact or Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths… read more
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27. Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language
By: Simon Horobin
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade t… read more
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- nonfiction
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