America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw , Jackson J. Benson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved aut…
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1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels
By: Jules Verne
3.89
Format: 739 pages, Hardcover
Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with advent… read more
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2. The Third Policeman
By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more
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"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
3. Taras Bulba
By: Nikolai Gogol , David George Hogarth
3.72
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852) "« Voyons, tourne-toi. Dieu, que tu es drôle ! Qu’est-ce que cette r… read more
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"I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away."-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
"Our country is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to us. My country is—you! That is my native land, and I bear that country in my heart."-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
"It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to …"-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
"Ukrayna'nın benim yurdum olduğunu kim söylüyor? Kim, ne adına orayı bana yurt olarak vermiş? Ruhumu okşayan, beni sevgiyle kucaklayan her yer ya da her şey benim yurdumdur. Benim yurdum, varlığım her…"-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
4. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
By: Jerry B. Jenkins , George J. Thompson
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Improve communication, resolve conflicts, and avoid the most common conversational disasters throug… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The African Queen
By: C.S. Forester
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
A classic story of adventure and romance - the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Kat… read more
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6. The Sunset Limited
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement wher… read more
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- american
7. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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8. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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9. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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10. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- history
11. America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw , Jackson J. Benson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved aut… read more
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- essays
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12. Dixie City Jam (Dave Robicheaux, #7)
By: James Lee Burke
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
As a child he was frightened by the stories... It's out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico… read more
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13. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
4.06
Format: None pages,
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more
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14. True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
In this little treasure, Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, offers timeless insight into the n… read more
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15. The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
By: William S. Burroughs
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventur… read more
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16. The Abominable Man (Martin Beck, #7)
By: Maj Sjöwall , Per Wahlöö , Thomas Teal
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On a quiet night a high-ranking police officer, Nyland, is slaughtered in his hospital bed, brutall… read more
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17. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more
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18. Narcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more
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19. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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20. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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21. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
By: Hunter S. Thompson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more
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22. The Water is Wide
By: Pat Conroy
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But… read more
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23. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more
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24. The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
By: Alan Blair , Maj Sjöwall , Per Wahlöö
4.07
Format: 640 pages,
In this classic police procedural, the ever-dyspeptic Martin Beck has nothing to be amused about, e… read more
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25. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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26. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
27. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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28. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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- history
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
29. Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence
By: Vivek Ramaswamy
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. makes the case that the essence of true American… read more
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30. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
By: William Souder
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first fu… read more
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31. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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